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 ...

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.

Woody the Tree Spirit falls Woody the Tree Spirit was a fixture of the Bois-des-Esprits for nearly two decades but the carving's life came to end this weekend.

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 ...

PAETE, Laguna, Philippines — Wood carving may be perceived by many as an old man’s craft, but in this town, known as the “carving capital of the Philippines,” three young wood carvers are keeping the ...