Local artist Stephan Wanger on Tuesday (Aug. 5) revealed plans to break his own Guinness World record for largest bead art mosaic with the Hotel Monteleone. Councilmember Nadine Ramsey and Mark Romig ...

This story begins with artist Stephan Wanger challenging himself to double a Guinness World Record. It ends with an art critic's challenge to Wanger. Wanger is Louisiana's premier maker of Mardi Gras ...

Stephan Wanger’s Bead Town projects were already locally famous by then. Although Stephan arrived in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, his project of creating works of large, publicly ...

Reem Al Gurg, the Emirati record-holder, is at the fair with her 3.75-square-metre bead mosaic called ‘Dates’ that took four months to complete with 18,231 wooden beads. Al Gurg’s creation is ...

Although Hayward Guenard may be focused on campus life while at the office, the Nicholls State University director of housing and residence life spends his off-time working on a unique hobby. Guenard, ...

CROWN POINT | The Methodist Hospitals Foundation did not let a little snow get in the way of the unveiling of a new, regional community art project. Foundation and city officials joined New ...

What a labor of love. Bead Town founder Stephen Wanger’s mosaic design titled “Life in the French Quarter,” which celebrates New Orleans’ 300th birthday, earned Guinness World Records recognition. The ...

She is the first woman in the Middle East to enter the Guinness World Records book. And she's just 25. Meet Emirati Reem Al Gurg, who made it to the record books by creating what has been officially ...

Ribe was an important trading town in the Viking Age. At the beginning of the 8th century, a trading place was established on the north side of the river Ribe, to which traders and craftsmen flocked ...