The Swarts Ruin, located within the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico, came to the attention of the public in the 1920s when Cornelius and Harriet Cosgrove, self-trained archaeologists, began ...

Chris Pawlik designs and embellishes gourds, turning them into amazing three-dimensional works of art. I met the award-winning gourd artist at this year's Belle Isle Art Fair, where I was immediately ...

OROVILLE — Linda and Ed Hemsley have been partners in life for 55 years and for the past couple of decades or so, partners in art. The couple creates “gourd-ous” decorative pieces, ornaments, candy or ...

The gloriously carved and masterfully painted vases, lampshades, sculptures, wind chimes and more that self-taught artist Janet Bratcher makes from hard-shell gourds bear little resemblance to the ...

In an annual rite of autumn, anyone can carve a pumpkin. But gourds? That requires patience and a passion that goes far beyond Halloween. Ask any serious “gourder.” This curious vine has wrapped ...

Gourd carving – a traditional art form that involves carving various patterns and characters on gourds by using knives and needles – has been attracting widespread attention in Linshu county, in Linyi ...

There are two kinds of gourd-sculpting techniques. The first method employs specially made steel needles in different sizes, engraving the patterns in thin lines on the surface of the gourds, and then ...

When a friend gave Carol Ann Short a gourd, she didn't realize it would add a new dimension to her volunteer work as a Montgomery County Master Gardener. Short has been raising gourds for four years ...