This Sunday, 50 artists from Sonoma County will go out of their gourd for a good cause. "Calabash! A Celebration of Gourds, Art and the Garden," benefits Food For Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS ...

For over ten thousand years, people have used the calabash (known also as the bottle gourd and formally as Lagenaria siceraria) in all sorts of ways. They’ve eaten it as food. They’ve used it ...

"CALABASH! A Celebration of Gourds, Art and Garden" runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at Food For Thought, 6550 Railroad Ave. in Forestville. Some 50 artists, including many who work with gourds, will display ...

It’s as if Nature had everything all planned out. Are you familiar with the calabash or bottle gourd? These squashes are shaped like flasks. In pre-Columbian times, these gourds were used as ...

He is a practicing architect based in Kampala. He has a background in painting. He has been doing calabash/gourd painting for the last four months. What has a practicing architect got to do with ...

Felix Groll and Felix Hardmood Beck’s Mategon reinterprets the shape and material of traditional Argentine Mate vessels, which are traditionally made from dried calabash gourds. The modern ...