What’s the difference between a gourd and a squash? A gourd is inedible; a squash is tasty. A gourd dries out in the sun; a squash rots. And the Marion County Gourd Artists wouldn’t spend hours ...

“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 ...

IT ONLY TOOK one look at an unusual object at the Hawaiian hotel where she was staying for Shannon Brown of Ross to discover a new art form she could explore – gourds. “It was a very simple geometric ...

The gourd fruit has long been an auspicious ornament on to which Chinese artists paint illustrations or inscribe written verse. Pronunciation of the Chinese word for gourd, hu, is similar to fu, the ...