WESTFIELD - Westfield Creative Arts will host a four-week Gourd Crafting class beginning Sept. 8 at its Rinnova Gallery at 105 Elm St. Ceil Rossi, a gourd art instructor from Agawam, will instruct the ...

WESTFIELD - Westfield Creative Arts and Westfield on Weekends will host a workshop Saturday on painting gourd gift ornaments. The workshop, featuring instructor Ceil Rossi, will be held from 10 a.m.

Gourds remind Grace Swanson of home in Nigeria. She and her siblings were born and raised there after her parents traveled to Nigeria as missionaries during World War II. After returning to the United ...

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; through April 27; artists’ reception 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 12; First Sunday in the Villages ARTScrawl noon to 2 p.m.

“ I call gourds the ultimate art medium,” says Christina Voise, publicity director for the Ohio Gourd Society. “People make everything out of them.” As she explained, gourds can be painted, carved, ...

The gourd is truly a unique canvas. It can be carved, textured with a wood burning tool, and painted. And although the artist is essentially practicing the two-dimensional art of drawing, the ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The gourd art of Debbie Cain and the photography of Becky Stinnett will be featured from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday during the First Saturday Art Walk in downtown Port Townsend. The ...

MELBOURNE — Mother Nature provides a rich canvas of possibilities in the Arkansas hills. For one artist, it is the unobtrusive gourds growing on sprawling vines that call to her. She is known as The ...

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 ...

The gloriously carved and masterfully painted vases, lampshades, sculptures, wind chimes and more that self-taught artist Janet Bratcher makes from hard-shell gourds bear little resemblance to the ...