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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You normally find gourds in the front window displays of stores throughout the District come Halloween time, but as it turns out, gourds can actually be used to create something more intrinsically ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRETEXT: Ringing in seasonal good-tidings with an ode to autumn traditions such as arranging gourd bouquets, carving pumpkins, aping scarecrows and reenacting an episode of "Diff'rent Strokes" ACTUAL ...

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. —Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 The ...