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 ...

Mark Sfirri's ''Family Tree'' consists of 14 abstract and cartoonlike portraits grouped according to their similarities. The work is part of the exhibit, ''La Famiglia,'' at the Museum for Art in Wood ...

Wooden dolls date back centuries. The earliest were crude carved pieces of wood shaped like a human figure. But today it’s rare to find a doll made before the 1600s, when English and German draftsmen ...

The Hepworth Wakefield acquired this rare stringed wood carving by Barbara Hepworth after a £3.8m public fundraising appeal ...

That looks like real fur on the squirrel! How long have you been carving? About 30 years. Just as a hobby, I don't sell them. How did you get started? When I went camping with my children in 1978. I'd ...

A band of volunteers have revitalised their community by planting flowers and commissioning a bench with carvings that commemorates the history of the area. Derek Briggs, 72, decided that a patch of ...