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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Stan Munro left the video camera on his iPhone running in hopes of capturing his wife, Suzi, as she arrived at his new Toothpick World display at Destiny USA. But that wasn't what he ...

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, ...

You might have a passion for sports, music or reading. Steven Backman has a passion for . . . toothpicks. That's right. "Toothpicks are my life," says Backman, who makes art out of thousands of ...

CHICAGO -- A toothpick is a humble thing, ubiquitous but so commonplace as to be ignored. Not so for Wayne Kusy. For most of his 61 years, toothpicks — thousands of them, millions of them — have been ...

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 ...

For more than 20 years, the San Francisco native has been crafting visual works of art using the unlikely medium of toothpicks. His collection, which frequently features San Francisco landmarks, ...

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 ...

SPOKANE — Most booths at the Spokane County Interstate Fair get their share of lookers, people passing by to admire arts and crafts creations. But this year there is one booth where one local artist ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- There's a new storefront at Destiny USA that's got kids pressing their noses to the windows. But nothing in the store is for sale. They're all looking at a collection of massive ...