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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

DAKOTA COUNTY, MN (Amazing America) — Meet Jerry Hackett, an American Artisan who turns turns toothpicks into treasures. The courthouse in Hastings, Minnesota is just one of the historic buildings ...

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 ...

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 ...