WATERLOO, Iowa --- Call it a carving or sculpture, but it's hard to miss Dave Kaiser's fish. It more closely resembles a fossil than a woodcarving. The artist carved the head and tail from hard, ...

I don’t even know what to call this. Is it wood carving? Wood shaving? Art? Manipulating nature like no human has ever done before? Whatever it is, it’s beautiful. By carefully shaving the stick down, ...

“Now that’s a piece of pocket-knife work,” Michael Hall said as he motioned toward a walking stick with wildly intricate layers of carvings in the Columbus Museum of Art. Hall, the museum’s adjunct ...