It was a trip out west that got Dave and Rosie Claus of Naperville interested in turning garden-variety gourds into exquisite works of fine art. "We were in Frisco, Colorado. We were in a little shop ...

When Helene Ross launched the first-ever Gourd Fine Art Show inFallbrook 11 years ago, the art form was still in its infancy. Although artists had been using gourds for centuries, both asdecorative ...

ROCK SPRINGS — The Community Fine Arts Center will change exhibits in late July and welcome Arizona artist Katie Woods. She is sharing her gourd art for the first time in Wyoming and is excited to ...

“Color and imagery dance in my head, asleep or awake,” says artist Whitney Peckman on her Web site. “I cannot live long enough to give expression to all that lies behind my eyes.” Those words convey a ...

Exhibiting the work of a sizeable group of gourd artists whoseimagination has run riot, the ninth annual National Gourd Fine ArtShow will open to the public on June 5 and continue through June 26at ...

ROCK SPRINGS — Arizona artist Katie Woods is sharing her unique gourd art in Wyoming for the first time. The Community Fine Arts Center will open this exhibit on Saturday, Aug. 1, with a wide range of ...

Master carver Eulogio Medina Sanabria, one of the few in Cochas Grande, inspects the gourds. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Eulogio Medina Sanabria holds a gourd after ...

LITTLE ROCK — Who would have thought the lowly gourd could become a work of art? People use them for drinking dippers, hang them from bird houses and leave them dangling from the ...

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 ...

Hallettsville artists, Blanche and Roy Cavarretta won awards at the annual Southwest Fine Art Gourd Fine Art Show held in Kerrville. The show continues through July 3, according to a news release from ...

Sarah Nelson’s son broke a gourd in their garden, resulting in lots of gourds the next year. Now what to do with them? Her answer was to create art. Sarah Nelson of Felton, Delaware has been making ...

BOISE, Idaho — Garden master Jim Duthie shows us something different that you might want to consider growing next year. Gourds! They’re members of the squash family, and for the most part, people ...