OCEAN CITY, MD — Today, the Ward Foundation hosted the 53rd annual World Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival in Ocean City, a gathering and competition that brought together enthusiasts of ...

Leonard Rousseau of Kneeland recently won the World Championship title in the decorative decoy pairs division at this year’s 48th annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving and Art Festival in ...

A historic museum in Salisbury paying homage to wildfowl art is in search of a new home. Salisbury University is providing ongoing assistance to the Ward Foundation in the relocation of the museum’s ...

The Ward Museum marks 50 years of its internationally recognized wildfowl carving championship this April. And to celebrate the milestone of the event that brings carvers and artists from around the ...

BALTIMORE – One by one, Brittany Andrew unfurled hundreds of award ribbons for the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition, sorting and proofing them, before laying them on the floor of ...

Last year's winner in the World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition's Decorative Lifesize Wildfowl category, "Livingstone's Turaco" by Thomas Horn. Ward Museum Last year's winner at the World ...

When what you see as you look out the window on your deck inspires you, and you are an avid bird carver, you begin to carve. That's what Mike Ford of Sanford did to win first place in the Advanced ...

The Louisiana Wildfowl Carvers and Collectors guild recently held its 37th annual Louisiana Wildfowl Festival at the Castine Center in Mandeville. Carving competitions for the novice, amateur and ...

Butch Daubert's first visit to the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition in Ocean City was as a spectator. Now he's one of the competitors. At the 32nd annual competition, held in April ...

Bob Mathews, of Fair Oaks, poses with a partially craved bird decoy in his wood workshop in Fair Oaks on July 7, 2016. Mathews has been carving for 42 years and has won numerous awards for his art.

After John J. Audubon’s extensive documentation of Louisiana’s wild birds that showed up in his paintings, there’s little argument that Louisiana’s next foray into outdoors art came when waterfowl ...

One by one, Brittany Andrew unfurled hundreds of award ribbons for the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition, sorting and proofing them, before laying them on the floor of an otherwise ...