The smell of freshly carved wood is in the air at the New Village Recreation Center in Centereach. At a long table, men and women are working with short, sharp knives. Their art varies from a decoy ...

HICKORY, Miss. -- Tucked away in the woods just off Interstate 20 lies a 20-year-old cabin that has become the studio of two cabinet-makers turned artists who turn discarded pieces of wood into ...

This story is part of a holiday series that will run through Dec. 25 in the. GRAND FORKS — Tom Perdue doesn't consider himself an artist. Yet in his basement workshop, he carefully crafts Santa Claus ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- Though some people might call what Ron Johnson does in his spare time “whittling,” he calls it carving. The difference between the two, he explained, is that in whittling, the ...

During a vacation trip to Wisconsin several years ago, a wooden hand-carved gnome beckoned to Nancy Allan. She was going to buy it to bring home to North Mankato, but her husband, David Allan said, “I ...

Shari Staiduhar added a new highlight this week to her long career as a chainsaw carving artist. She did that by making her first appearance as a featured performer at the Lake County Fair. Staiduhar, ...