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 ...

The Red River Valley Woodcarvers are set to host the festival from April 14 to 16 at the Fargo Air Museum. Read on for an in-depth preview of the classes and carvers taking centerstage. “My Turn,” by ...

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 ...

Chris Whillock “wood” like to introduce others to the art of carving. To that end, he’s opened the Whittling Shack at 917 N. Broadway in Rochester, and it includes all the bells and “whittles” to get ...

Making something out of nothing is what African woodcarver Cephas Agbemenu does as he turns abandoned logs into beautiful works of art. "I focus on carving because it is an imitation of nature," ...