MAPLETON — Visitors to Dick Sonnek's farm on the Maple River find the usual roosters, horses and pigs. But his nearly century-old farmhouse also is surrounded by moose, dinosaurs, trumpet-playing ...

LAWRENCE — Sculptor Nick Schmiedeler looks at his house and yard as a canvas. His "palette" contains scrap metal and other objects found in junkyards, alleys and river banks or items given to him by ...

In the winter dark and summer dawn, a score of artists converge on a scrap yard in south Tucson to find inspiration. Tucson Iron & Metal calls the twice -monthly, early-morning gathering its Artist’s ...

THERMALITO — Like the town of Paradise itself, Bob “Wizard” Marzewski’s “Arising Phoenix” has grown out of the ashes and debris of the Camp Fire. The 14-foot-tall sculpture, weighing about 1,500 ...

From dawn 'til dusk, Milynda Rogers can be found in her backyard shed, welding, twisting and hammering old rusted tools and scrap metal into objects of beauty. A labour of love for the past 15 years, ...

Derold and Cindy Becker own Tadpole Creek Creations, a studio near rural Belmont in Kingman County that creates yard art by welding together old metal parts. Matt Riedl The Wichita Eagle When Derold ...