OCEAN CITY, MD — Today, the Ward Foundation hosted the 53rd annual World Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival in Ocean City, a gathering and competition that brought together enthusiasts of ...

A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first place in the bird of prey category at the British Decoy and Wildfowl Carving ...

Leonard Rousseau of Kneeland recently won the World Championship title in the decorative decoy pairs division at this year’s 48th annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving and Art Festival in ...

The 49th Annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival took place in Ocean City last weekend. The event draws carvers from all over the world. On top of that, you can ...

The Ward Museum marks 50 years of its internationally recognized wildfowl carving championship this April. And to celebrate the milestone of the event that brings carvers and artists from around the ...

One by one, Brittany Andrew unfurled hundreds of award ribbons for the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition, sorting and proofing them, before laying them on the floor of an otherwise ...

A historic museum in Salisbury paying homage to wildfowl art is in search of a new home. Salisbury University is providing ongoing assistance to the Ward Foundation in the relocation of the museum’s ...

MELFA, Va. (Delmarva Now) -- Eastern Shore artist David Turner has been creating sculptures of wildlife since he was 6 years old. Fifty years later, he is the recipient of the Ward Museum of Wildfowl ...

The Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers and Collectors guild recently held its 37th annual Louisiana Wildfowl Festival at the Castine Center in Mandeville. Carving competitions for the novice, amateur and ...

WALKERSVILLE -- When looking at a block of basswood, one person may see just a piece of a tree. Lyndsey Mullen sees her next bird-carving project. For the past five years, Lyndsey has been taking a ...

After John J. Audubon’s extensive documentation of Louisiana’s wild birds that showed up in his paintings, there’s little argument that Louisiana’s next foray into outdoors art came when waterfowl ...

The Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers & Collectors Guild will hold a decoy show, featuring demonstrations of carving and finishing, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin ...