After 30 years, friends Edwin Smith and August "Gus" Birk have published their first book together. The book, titled "The Wood Sculptures by August W. Birk," is a compilation of photographic essays ...

While the emerald ash borer isn’t native to Ohio, hundreds of thousands of ash trees ravaged by the invasive insect have been cut down in the state since 2006. Rather than have the City of Dayton ...

RAWLINS — Amid the hustle and bustle of the Art Beat event that was held in downtown Rawlins on Oct. 6 and 7, a strange sound could be heard coming from Depot Park: a whirring chainsaw. Jerred James, ...

When someone mentions Gary Strehlo in the Spooner, Wis., area, people know that he's the chainsaw sculptor man. Strehlo, a 62-year-old IBM retiree and Rochester native, has spent the last four to five ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Artists from countries as far away as Japan and Australia are in Eau Claire this week to show how they can turn a piece of wood into a masterpiece. This weekend, the US Open ...

Two chainsaw artists have been working in Mount Airy to transform dead trees into works of art on the town’s Rails to Trails West. Colin Vale, 33, of Olney, is working to transform an ash tree, killed ...

The artist plans to install seven sculptures in different locations around L.A. Art comes in all forms, and for Stacy Poitras, it means sculpting in an unconventional way-- with a chainsaw. Famous for ...

Bongo Love isn’t afraid of the chainsaw. He’s won multiple awards at chainsaw carving competitions — including third place in Vancouver and fourth place at the World Cup in Germany. He’s also getting ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -Sawdust is floating in the air this weekend because the US Open Chainsaw Sculpture Championship is back in town. The championship is a competition where people from around the ...

Competitive chainsaw sculptor Steven Higgins airbrushes finishing color onto a seven-foot carving of a great blue heron in Liberty, Missouri. With most of his carving competitions canceled due to ...