London-based Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir recalls how her collection started with gifts from her parents and became touchstones of ...

Mixed-media artist Indu Varma of Sackville, N.B., looks at birds from a different perspective. Varma, who grew up in India, ...

Here are our top things to do this week in SWFL, including a rock legend and 4th of July fireworks. See what made our list.

Watermark Art Center will offer three art workshops this June, including basket weaving, birds of a feather mixed-media projects and a ceramic garden bells class. Master weaver Shannon Lucas ...

I recently went deep researching social weaver birds, a species that builds dense complexes of hundreds of nests — little bird cities made of thatch draped around tree limbs and telephone poles.

The male Village Weaver, an aptly named passerine from Africa, is among one of the craftiest avian daddies around. This determined engineer weaves strips of grass, reeds, or palm blades to build up to ...

Some birds such as the Oriental Honey Buzzard, well-adapted to prey on bee larvae, have a sweet tooth. Others such as the Hoopoe love some leisurely ‘me-time’, with sun-bathing an ...

Diné weaver Martha Gorman Schultz holds up her award-winning hand-woven rug that swept the best in show award at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 1990. (all photos courtesy Marilou Schultz unless ...

Meanwhile, male weaver birds build intricately woven nests to attract potential mates. These are made using twigs or plant material (whichever is readily available) and can contain more than 1,000 ...

The flashing lights subside and Weaver appears, minus the enchanted staff that is this shaman-like character’s defining prop. (Nor do we ever see the all-important book this literary-minded ...