Who would have thought a small piece of wood used for picking food out of people's teeth could be art? Burlingame resident Steven Backman saw the possibilities when he was 5 years old. Backman's love ...

Much like any retiree, Shakopee resident Jerry Hackett needed to find a new pastime when he left High Five Erectors, a steel erection company where he worked as an accountant. When he lived up north ...

Wayne Kusy is rather well known in his little field: In 1997, he was featured in People magazine, posing in the Lake Michigan surf with a skeleton of a ship in progress. A journey of 10,000 miles, ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Stan Munro left the video camera on his iPhone running in hopes of capturing his wife, Suzi, as she arrived at his new Toothpick World display at Destiny USA. But that wasn't what he ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - One young man is taking creativity to a different level. On any given day, after he’s worked an 8-hour shift, you can find him at home working some more. He’s not just putting ...

CHICAGO -- A toothpick is a humble thing, ubiquitous but so commonplace as to be ignored. Not so for Wayne Kusy. For most of his 61 years, toothpicks — thousands of them, millions of them — have been ...

Wayne Kusy, a self-described “toothpick folk artist” and musician, at his apartment on April 1, 2022, in Chicago. He said he has been making toothpick sculptures “all his life.” His first one being a ...

Every winter, the longtime Marion resident would spend months making complex structures like the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a cruise ship. But instead of drawing, painting, or ...

SPOKANE — Most booths at the Spokane County Interstate Fair get their share of lookers, people passing by to admire arts and crafts creations. But this year there is one booth where one local artist ...

A display of a selection of Dr. Steven Potashnick’s collection of antique toothpicks. These and more are featured in Potashnick’s book “The Art and History of the Toothpick.” A display of a selection ...

SHAKOPEE – Much like any retiree, Shakopee resident Jerry Hackett needed to find a new pastime when he left High Five Erectors, a steel erection company where he worked as an accountant. When he lived ...