As part of its ongoing summer art series, the Taube Museum of Art is hosting art classes for local kids ages six and up.

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 ...

There definitely are some fierce mamas in the bird world, but “territorial defense is one area in which the males typically do more,” says Audubon's field editor Kenn Kaufman. The Greater Rhea from ...

Artisans among birds, such as the Baya Weaver, can put even the most diligent traditional media artists to shame, making over 500 trips to complete making their pendulous nests.

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.

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 birds have been busy, building shelters of straw and grass. Up close the real shape of the "pom-poms" becomes clear: grass tubes in the form of an upside down "U", with an opening at each end.

Brett Weaver began his art journey while in the second grade. "My dad always liked to tell everyone about how my second-grade teacher asked me if I was going to be an artist when I grew up. And I ...

More information: Maria C. Tello-Ramos et al, Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds, Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adn2573 Journal information: Science ...