What do you use gourds for? The plants, which come in various sizes, shapes and colors, have been used as ornaments, birdhouses, bowls, food and even sponges. But gourds are also used to make ...

Quirky, captivating and motley colored, the hard-shelled gourd (Lagenaria) is no longer limited as Thanksgiving décor. During December, ornamental gourds add distinctive flair to traditional holiday ...

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 ...

Nature's pottery is the way many folks refer to gourds. Billings artist Laurie Wertman takes it one step further by painting and embellishing her gourds with fiber and silver. Her new show at the ...

While still a relatively new craft form, gourd art is grounded in cultures dating to early civilization – when gourds served as tools for cooking, serving and storing food, as well as used for ...

Friends Gloria Gay and Jeanie Dierwechter share a common bond: They love gourds. Both are members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, represent the organization every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

Artist Kathy Badrak is leading a workshop on creating a colorful gourd bowl with a web design in the center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 1 at the Wildling Museum in Solvang. This class is suitable ...

But what if your coffee came in an entirely organic kind of cup? That’s the vision of Jun Aizaki, the founder of New York-based design studio Crème Design. He and his team have created a prototype cup ...

When sculptor Alfred Paredes looks at a pumpkin, he sees possibilities. He sees the creature begging to be released. With imagination and the help of tools, Paredes transforms simple pumpkins into 3-D ...

Warm September nights are a mixed blessing for Tom Borchard. Balmy evening temperatures allow his monster pumpkins to gain as much as 30 pounds in a day, billowing almost visibly to as much as 700 ...