MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A Minot man has an unusual ability to discover good luck and share it with others. Paul Simonson creates Wood Spirits, long the legend of bearers of good luck and good fortune, by ...

HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Louie LaChusa calls his art pieces “good spirits.” After an ice storm brought down trees all over his neighborhood in Laurel Park, he bought a chainsaw to ...

OCALA — Betty Reeves sums up her experience in the free wood carving class at the Eighth Avenue Adult Activity Center with a quip: "We whittle a little and talk a lot." Reeves, 94, is a self-described ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. – Where many people might just see a log – sometimes a very big log – Joe Wavra sees potential. And he’s perfected the art of bringing that potential to life, so to speak, with a ...

It all starts from a blank piece of wood and “you cut away and you can make something of it.” TAYLOR MILL – Majestic tree houses stretch for the sky as noble wood spirits rest beside them in silence.

It’s a quiet night in the basement of the Community United Methodist Church in East Lampeter Township. Three men chat while their knives glide across pieces of wood with a soft sh-sh-sh sound, and ...

Editor's note: We had the opportunity to interview mask carver Ned Bear on Nov. 7. Sadly, Bear died on Dec. 24, but we want to share the story and video we produced about him and his craft. Ned Bear ...

Speaking in the documentary film Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters, the esteemed Kwakwaka’wakw artist mused on the enduring importance of the cedar tree to his people. Dick, who died last year at the ...