The traditional straw painting Cesar Carbajal practiced as a child in Mexico may have helped save his life as a young adult. You might never know the 27-year-old Saluda man, with a faux-hawk hairstyle ...

FEW materials could be further from most Angelenos’ lives than straw -- those yellowy, dried grain stalks associated with farms, barns and livestock. So it’s a bit surprising that an exhibition of ...

LAKE CITY — With a tool box containing dog-tooth combs, seam rippers and an assortment of other gadgets, Beth Robbins Keller can make artistic wonders out of straw. She’s a folk artist who started ...

Wheat straw art, a time-honored tradition in China, is a masterpiece of Chinese folk art. It embodies the essence of Chinese culture and the spirit of integrity. In Pingyuan county, Dezhou, Xian ...

Straw art is all the rage in Japan, and it’s easy to see why. Immensely talented Japanese artists have taken to transforming ordinary drinking straws into mind-blowing works of art, incorporating ...

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Japan's fall rice harvest is finished, but the remnants continue to find new life as art in rural Japan, especially in Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshu. Since 2008, the Niigata Wara Art ...

Jimmy Trujillo dedicated countless hours to the art he created, from bolo ties made of bone to his renowned straw appliqué crosses. Trujillo was a staple at the Santa Fe Traditional Spanish Market for ...

The straw sculptures are part of the Wara Art Festival in Niigata, Japan. Large, three-dimensional sculptures of dinosaurs and other animals were exhibited at the Wara Art Festival in Niigata, Japan, ...