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 ...

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 ...

Scott Weaver has spent a? sizable chunk of his ?58 years on Earth bonding toothpicks with Elmer’s glue. “It is so tedious,” he affirmed at his longtime home in Rohnert Park. Yet, he can’t stop.

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, ...

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 ...