Nathan Jackson and his son Stephen Jackson, who uses the artist name Jackson Polys, stand in the carving shed in Saxman earlier this month. (Photo by Eric Stone/KRBD) The Sealaska Heritage Institute ...

In a carving shed in Sitka National Historical Park, a team of five well-known carvers are continuing, and reviving, an art practiced since time immemorial — carving a wooden dugout canoe from the ...

SAUGATUCK — After working all of his life using his hands as a tool and die maker, Guy Veenstra was looking for something artistic to do. One day, he went to a wood carving show and picked up a block ...

The sound of hammers and chisels striking stone rings out on most Sundays in the cemetery of ancient Xochiaca, a village swallowed up decades ago by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. It's the sound of ...

Each Halloween season, the gourd geniuses at Maniac Pumpkin Carvers crank out crazy, creative (or is it "crazy creative"?) pumpkins with geeky gusto. This year Marc Evan and Chris Soria (aka Master ...

In the shadow of the giant cooling towers of the Limerick nuclear power plant, Fred and Dave Dilworth pursue a craft perfected a century ago. Their tools are mallets and razor-sharp chisels; their ...

Frankfort resident Tony Burton recently retired from the Navy and was keeping an eye out for what to do next. That search brought him to South Holland, where he could be found recently turning what ...

Joe You is fascinated by faces. He is a dentist by trade; he has an eye for human physiognomy and is business-like behind a carving knife. But You also has a whimsical streak and a love for tinkering ...

Monterey >> It’s been a little more than a quarter century since George Kenny began to use wood sculptures as a gimmick to lure customers into his small coffee shop in Allyn, Washington. Now he spends ...

For more than 40 years, the Orange County Woodcarvers have preserved a dwindling practice. The 80 or so members of the nonprofit meet weekly at Church of the Foothills in Santa Ana to craft works of ...