MIDDLETON — A decade ago, Middleton artist Chris Peters grew gourds in her garden. Peters had no idea what to do with the curved, hard-skinned fruit until she began communicating with other members of ...

Sheila Abbott didn't want to use hand-crafted gourds just for winter centerpieces and baskets. The Spartanburg County artist creates colorful lighthouses, ladybugs, swans and other items with the ...

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 ...

Susan Atkinson is an award winning gourd artist, an apiarist (beekeeper) and a chandler. Atkinson always liked art and took every art course at Westminster Senior High School. When she graduated, she ...

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 ...

Friends Gloria Gay and Jeanie Dierwechter share a common bond: They love gourds. Both are members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, represent the organization every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

This Sunday, 50 artists from Sonoma County will go out of their gourd for a good cause. "Calabash! A Celebration of Gourds, Art and the Garden," benefits Food For Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS food ...

This weekend's annual Calabash Celebration will see artistic pieces, from decorative to useful, and all made from hardshell gourds. Earl Fincher loved birds - so much so that he wanted to make ...

WASHINGTON - Most people think of gourds as fall decoration or food, but several craftspeople see them as art. "I put some pretty spectacular colors on the gourds themselves, and then I do a little ...

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CLINTON - You'd have to be out of your gourd to miss the Illinois Gourd Festival and Competition, but lots of people did. The two-day event, hosted at Clinton Junior High School, saw so-so crowds ...