APPEARANCE THIS YEAR. >> THE TWO DAY CONFERENCE AT THE WESTIN HOTEL IS SHOWCASING RICH MUSI ARTWORK AND IS ALLOWING LOCAL ARTISTS TO NETWORK AND COLLABORATE. ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS IS MAKING A SPECIAL ...

SALISBURY, N.Y. — Rembrandt worked in oils. Michelangelo carved marble. Mark Tyoe chainsaws big tree trunks. At his home just south of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, Tyoe carves soaring eagles, ...

CLINTON — Dozens of bears, eagles and gnomes perished in a December fire deep in the woods of Whidbey Island. It was a devastating loss for chainsaw artist Steve Backus, who carved the creatures that ...

SALISBURY, N.Y. — Rembrandt worked in oils. Michelangelo carved marble. Mark Tyoe chainsaws big tree trunks. At his home just south of New York’s Adirondack Mountains, Tyoe carves soaring eagles, ...

PINE GROVE – Michelangelo once said that when choosing blocks of marble for his sculptures, he imagined that he was not creating his sculptures, but setting them free. Joel Mack thinks the same thing ...

Not all logs end up in the fireplace or paper mill. A Hopkinton artist turns white pine stumps and blocks into wildlife sculptures, like bears and... Mar 23, 2016 — Not all logs end up in the ...

SHERRODSVILLE ‒ Using a chainsaw and a few other tools, Dan Kidd can transform the stump of a dead tree into a work of art. Kidd, 66, owner of Conotton Creek Woodworks in Scio, has been carving wooden ...

It’s build-a-bear, University of Central Arkansas style. No stuffing needed; the bear is created from a tree by an award-winning chain-saw sculptor. Six years after Iowa chain-saw artist Gary Keenan ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tennessee - It starts with a piece of white pine. Securing it with spikes onto a block of wood, Roark Phillips maneuvers around his blank canvas without a sketch or concept, unaware of ...

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, ...

OPP Central Region say bear chainsaw carving reported stolen from a storefront in North Kawartha Township late last month has been recovered. On Aug. 2, Peterborough County OPP investigated the ...

Maybe it was the sudden and distressing news about a relative, or because 800,000 Americans have died in the pandemic, or because of the incessant gun violence in Baltimore. Whatever the reason, I ...