Diminutive and detailed works on display as part of First Thursday Art Walk To hear Miki Harder talk or to see her recent paintings, you’d think birds were a lifelong obsession. But no. Before it was ...

Shea Hembrey, who just completed an artist fellowship at the University of Iowa, creates “landscape paintings” using colorful soil supplements to plant trees and promote native bird conservation. Some ...

The average songbird has anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 feathers. A swan can have up to 25,000. But if Bill Rice had to think about that, he'd hang up his band saw, rasp and hook knife and go back to ...