In Benton, Turning Foraged Wood into Fungi Figurines

As kids, cousins Luke and Edmund Couture spent a lot of time in the woodshop on Luke’s parents’ farm, in Benton. They taught themselves to carve spoons, spatulas, and coasters, and they started selling their work at the Common Ground Country Fair when they were 12. These days, the 22-year-old cousins still spend most of […]

Artist Tom Haney tells stories and ideas through handcrafted wooden figurines

Tom Haney is an Ohio-born artist whose curiosity is driven by mechanical movement itself. The spark was ignited in him at a nascent stage, when he was just two-years-old, and found himself enchanted by the workings of a mechanical diorama in a museum. Haney’s fascination never stopped and took him on an unstoppable journey. After […]