When creating his intricate, bronze sculptures, Saratoga-based artist Lance Glasser says he looks to capture motions and gestures. “Bronze is just a hunk of metal, and it doesn’t move. To get that ...

WASHINGTON - Most people think of gourds as fall decoration or food, but several craftspeople see them as art. "I put some pretty spectacular colors on the gourds themselves, and then I do a little ...

Art Works Gallery is proud to feature Gourd Artist Bill Wilson for our September 2nd Saturday Spotlight. On Saturday, September 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bill will be in the gallery demonstrating ...

Among the more than 160 juried artists who were in attendance at this year’s Willoughby ArtsFest, Mary Hegarty was most likely the only artist to bring artwork made out of gourds. The annual ArtsFest ...

Norma Owens started making gourd art around 2008 after attending a workshop at Roscoe Village. she sells her creations at craft shows across the region, including the holiday bazaar Friday at Lake ...

Artist Carrie Hewitt remembers a time in her childhood when her creative impulses began to spark. Hewitt, 53, who grew up on a 60-acre family ranch about an hour's drive north of San Diego, says her ...

Poppies and daisies leapt from the curved surface with a pastoral beauty. Dots in all different sizes and colors created a mosaic effect across the surface of another piece. Macramé, crocheted and ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- She's known as The Gourd Lady and, no, she doesn't don a costume made of dried fruit -- although she did wear a costume when she gave living history seminars at Missouri Town.

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) -- Linda Eichwald is an artist whose canvases are the skins of gourds. For the past 2 1/2 years, Eichwald has been turning gourds into highly decorative purses, birdhouses, table ...

Bowling Green artist and member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen Paul Buhrmester sits beside a collection of burnt gourds he crafted from dried gourds using pyrography, cutting, carving ...

SEQUIM — Jane Smith will demonstrate the use of pine needles as decorations for her gourd art at 1 p.m. Friday. The free demonstration will be at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., Sequim.

You know what I’m talking about — the strange, bumpy things you see every fall. They’re piled high at all the stores, squatting on front porches, or sitting in a bowl your friend insists is “autumnal.