Celebrate 62 years of gourd art and culture at the Delaware County Fairgrounds with free demos, crafts and prizes.

The unassuming gourd is anything but humble in the hands of artists such as John “Duke” Pointek, who saws, sands, drills and dresses up the hard-shelled fruit into stunning shapes that delight both ...

The nonprofit San Diego County Gourd Artists recently gathered for their annual (except last year) “Play Day Get Away” at Whispering Winds Conference Center in the Cuyamaca Mountains, near Julian.

“Color and imagery dance in my head, asleep or awake,” says artist Whitney Peckman on her Web site. “I cannot live long enough to give expression to all that lies behind my eyes.” Those words convey a ...

Sheryl Baal can’t resist. “We’re going out of our gourd here,” she says while preparing for this weekend’s fifth annual Gourd Festival at the Tree Mover Tree & Gourd Farm in Palmdale. As Halloween ...

Toothy grin, triangle eyes, lighted candle. Meh. Sometime between the first pumpkin face, carved by the first mischievous child, and the 20 millionth Halloween pop-up store, the whole jack-o-lantern ...

In 1993, Connie Worrell, one of the founding members of the Florida Gourd Society, was traveling through Georgia when she stumbled upon one of those unexpected and quirky attractions that often make a ...

Patti Karas never thought she was "crafty." She couldn’t sit still for sewing; she got bored making photo scrapbooks. But while looking for home decorating ideas in a magazine, she fell upon an art ...