In Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk) folklore, there’s a story about a bear that walked along the Black River in Wisconsin. Sunlight bounced off the bear’s coat so brightly that an elder named it “Sauninga,” which ...

Michael Peterson’s artwork has been described as bold, elegant, poetic and even "cutting edge," although that stretches the limits of tongue-in-cheek wit. Certainly there is a boldness about his ...

Charlie Baker is an artist and builder who weaves materials found in nature to make astonishing and beautiful wooden structures. Charlie's creations are made so they look like they could've grown that ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

MONONA - Chainsaws whirred in San Damiano park on the shores of Lake Monona Thursday, but they weren't cutting down trees. They were bringing old logs to life. The park, which sits on the ancestral ...

The Sullivan Area Art Guild Gallery is featuring the work of several area woodworkers now through May 6. Although the display is small, there are many incredible pieces made of wood.

You can come to expect a dizzying array of textures and motifs when viewing the work of Tomokazu Matsuyama. Born in Japan and now based in New York, the artist fuses pop culture with Eastern and ...

Two months after a Taiwanese acacia tree fell during a rainstorm, it was split into logs – with each end sealed using wax and white acrylic paint. While these logs still need time to dry, older ones ...

A Russian-German research team has determined the age of the Shigir sculpture to be 12,000 years old. That could literally mean rewriting the history of mankind. Two professors of archaeology met one ...