Arturo Morando was a 7-year-old in Mexico when his parents sent him to a local artisan to see whether the old man would teach the boy a trade. “Yes,” said the artisan, Rodolfo Torres. He would, but ...

Once upon a time, there was very little choice in the land of concrete lawn ornaments. You had the gnomes, the birdbaths, the deer, the un-PC black jockeys, but that was about it. Six years ago, James ...

Like a carnival stand full of kewpie dolls, Bill Bonenfant’s front lawn is a colorful display of concrete castings. There on a low hill overlooking Route 85 stand jumbled rows of pots and pagodas, ...

SEATTLE — I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Sprinting past an alligator drinking a soda pop and a T-Rex playing guitar, I lean toward a family of colorful metal toadstools that come to my knee. “Aren’t ...

San Francisco architect Jonathan Feldman and designer Lisa Lougee found an outer Noe Valley fixer-upper that they thought they might live in. That meant designing a friendly play yard for their child, ...

Cement castings of huge rhubarb, burdock or hosta leaves are always eye-catching in the garden, especially when hand-painted in beautiful shades of greens, gold or even left the natural concrete color ...

How do you hang paintings on concrete walls? “With great difficulty” is the joke answer. “With great difficulty” is the serious answer too. Hanging paintings on cast concrete isn’t easy. But that’s ...

It should not come as a surprise to anyone traveling the back roads of Kansas that this state is a mecca for grassroots art. “My hypothesis is that when pioneer people moved to Kansas, they were ...