In this context, the arts can include Performing arts education (dance, drama, music), literature and poetry, storytelling, Visual arts education in film, craft, design, digital arts, media and photography. It is distinguished from art education by being not so much about teaching art, but focused on:
A Swage Block is a multi-purpose tool used similar to an anvil by blacksmiths, metal sculptors, armourers and other metalworkers. Swage blocks are generally thick square or rectangular blocks of cast iron, ductile iron or steel.They have also been made of wood and bronze.apping Blocks These are a jeweler's or watchmaker's tool machined from a solid block of hardenable steel, brass or hardwood under 3 (~75mm) square or round and have polished surfaces. A dapping block is similar to a to a very small industrial block with the addition of small hemispherical depressions.
This is especially true with metal plate jewelry pieces, such as my cuff bracelet project. If you look at most anvils, in addition to a surface area for hammering, they have protruding areas, called horns, that allow you to shape metal around. A bench block, on the other hand, is just that  a block o metal. This is good for pounding and hardening, but theres no place to shape. In the book Bead on a Wire, Sharilyn Miller talks about blocks and uses them in many of her wire jewelry projects.