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 ...

Art Works Gallery is proud to feature Gourd Artist Bill Wilson for our September 2nd Saturday Spotlight. On Saturday, September 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bill will be in the gallery demonstrating ...

The Swarts Ruin, located within the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico, came to the attention of the public in the 1920s when Cornelius and Harriet Cosgrove, self-trained archaeologists, began ...

Chris Pawlik designs and embellishes gourds, turning them into amazing three-dimensional works of art. I met the award-winning gourd artist at this year's Belle Isle Art Fair, where I was immediately ...

OROVILLE — Linda and Ed Hemsley have been partners in life for 55 years and for the past couple of decades or so, partners in art. The couple creates “gourd-ous” decorative pieces, ornaments, candy or ...

In an annual rite of autumn, anyone can carve a pumpkin. But gourds? That requires patience and a passion that goes far beyond Halloween. Ask any serious “gourder.” This curious vine has wrapped ...

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 ...

When a friend gave Carol Ann Short a gourd, she didn't realize it would add a new dimension to her volunteer work as a Montgomery County Master Gardener. Short has been raising gourds for four years ...

There are two kinds of gourd-sculpting techniques. The first method employs specially made steel needles in different sizes, engraving the patterns in thin lines on the surface of the gourds, and then ...

Wang Dekun, a folk artist from Xiajin county, Shandong province, has a deep passion for gourd pyrography and is recognized as an inheritor of this art in his region. With his skilled hands, he ...