An unfortunate whittling incident in seventh grade woodshop left me with a scar on my hand and a subsequent lifelong reminder that playing with knives is an at-your-own-risk endeavor. Recently, ...

McIntosh Memorial Library of Viroqua will be hosting seven months of wood carving classes starting in October. John Sutton and other local carvers will teach participants how to turn a piece of wood ...

Joyce Volmut merely has to look out the windows of her in-home studio for feathered-and-beaked inspirations for the wood bird figurines she will show this weekend at the Kaw Valley Woodcarvers’ 33rd ...

TITONKA | For many of the North Iowa Woodcarvers, it was an interest in woodcarving, or learning to wood carve, that drew them to the group, but it’s the friendships they’ve created that have kept ...

The lifelike feathers on Robby Matherne’s female mallard almost fool a person into thinking he used real feathers for his intricate decoy carving. He didn’t. "No, it’s all made out of wood," he ...

As I type, a one-toothed banjo player with a bushy white beard and a smile a mile wide appears lost in his mountain music. Next to him, an old woman sporting a polka dot apron and a neat bun in her ...

It's pumpkin carving time, and Signal Mountain's woodcarving club is offering a lesson in extreme pumpkin carving for those who want an edge on the competition for best pumpkin on the block. A pumpkin ...

MARYSVILLE — The first thing Wade Faries ever carved was a rabbit. He made the small figure out of a discarded piece of rhododendron. A wood-carving instructor he met by chance urged Faries to enter ...

If you’re looking for a setting where it’s socially appropriate — and safe — to play with knives, be sure to check out the 47th annual Red River Valley International Wood Arts Festival, which runs ...