For two weeks last summer, I was fortunate to learn Alpine woodcarving from Austrian master woodcarvers. The Geisler-Moroder Schnitzschule is in the small Austrian village of Elbigenalp, population ...

An unfortunate whittling incident in seventh grade woodshop left me with a scar on my hand and a subsequent lifelong reminder that playing with knives is an at-your-own-risk endeavor. Recently, ...

Making something out of nothing is what African woodcarver Cephas Agbemenu does as he turns abandoned logs into beautiful works of art. "I focus on carving because it is an imitation of nature," ...