Bob Spear, cofounder of Huntington’s Birds of Vermont Museum, always considered his remarkably lifelike wooden bird sculptures to be purpose-built. A lifelong conservationist and educator, Spear ...
Joyce Volmut merely has to look out the windows of her in-home studio for feathered-and-beaked inspirations for the wood bird figurines she will show this weekend at the Kaw Valley Woodcarvers’ 33rd ...
The Wendell Gilley Museum is offering two classes on Saturday, Feb. 21, in the museum’s new Haertel Classroom.
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LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. The ...
Warren Brown first carved when he was about 8 years old. With a butter knife, he sculpted a squirrel out of soap. A retired Navy veteran, contractor and small businessman, the 74-year-old has been ...
Everyone dreams of making a living doing something they absolutely love. For Jeff Duxbury, it’s his life and has been for the better part of forty years. He’s the owner of Dux’ Dekes Decoy Company in ...
It all began in “the bird shop,” the garage in Southwest Harbor where plumber turned artist Wendell Gilley carved some 10,000 wooden birds between 1931 and his death in 1983. When friends and ...
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (WBAY) - A Waupaca County man has an incredible gift of transforming a piece of wood into a lifelike bird or animal. His detailed carvings have won first in class at national ...
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INTERSTATE, IT’S POSSIBLE IN PLACES TO EXIT AND WITHIN ONLY A MILE OR SO, FIND YOURSELF ON VERY WINDING, VERY NON-MAJOR BACK ROADS LIKE IN HUNTINGTON, VERMONT. WE’VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE UBER HERE, AND WE ...
As a child, I'd creep down the basement stairs and watch him: hunched over a table, a single lamp lighting his work. First he'd carve a walnut-sized body out of wood. Then he'd take a tiny brush and ...
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