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  2. Elijah Pierce - Wikipedia

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    May 7, 1984. (1984-05-07) (aged 92) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. Elijah Pierce (1892–1984) was a 20th-century wood carver. He began carving at a young age using a pocket knife. He first started carving animals because of his prior life of growing up on a farm. Pierce was honored in 1982 with a National Heritage Fellowship for his art and influence in ...

  3. Whittling - Wikipedia

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    Whittling, however, involves only the use of a knife. [2]: 10 In industrialized areas of the world, whittling is mainly a hobby and not an occupational activity as it was before powered wood working equipment enabled modern production. "Splash whittling" is a historical, decorative technique in Norway using an ax to create a herringbone pattern.

  4. King Arts Complex - Wikipedia

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    April 4, 1983. The Martin Luther King Jr. Performing and Cultural Arts Complex is a historic building in the King-Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1925 as the Pythian Temple and James Pythian Theater, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places and Columbus Register of Historic Properties in 1983.

  5. Mexican ironwood carvings - Wikipedia

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    Mexican ironwood carvings. Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.

  6. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Indigenous American visual arts include portable arts, such as painting, basketry, textiles, or photography, as well as monumental works, such as architecture, land art, public sculpture, or murals. Some Indigenous art forms coincide with Western art forms; however, some, such as porcupine quillwork or birchbark biting are unique to the Americas.

  7. Tom Wolfe (woodcarver) - Wikipedia

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    Tom Wolfe (woodcarver) Tom James Wolfe began woodcarving at the age of 12. He has become one of America 's leading wood carvers with nearly 50 books in print with Schiffer Publications to date. [1] Tom currently resides in Spruce Pine, NC and teaches classes several times a year at his workshop on Grandfather Mountain, as well as at the John C ...

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