Who would have thought a small piece of wood used for picking food out of people's teeth could be art? Burlingame resident Steven Backman saw the possibilities when he was 5 years old. Backman's love ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Stan Munro left the video camera on his iPhone running in hopes of capturing his wife, Suzi, as she arrived at his new Toothpick World display at Destiny USA. But that wasn't what he ...

Wayne Kusy is rather well known in his little field: In 1997, he was featured in People magazine, posing in the Lake Michigan surf with a skeleton of a ship in progress. A journey of 10,000 miles, ...

A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...

Much like any retiree, Shakopee resident Jerry Hackett needed to find a new pastime when he left High Five Erectors, a steel erection company where he worked as an accountant. When he lived up north ...

You might have a passion for sports, music or reading. Steven Backman has a passion for . . . toothpicks. That's right. "Toothpicks are my life," says Backman, who makes art out of thousands of ...

CHICAGO -- A toothpick is a humble thing, ubiquitous but so commonplace as to be ignored. Not so for Wayne Kusy. For most of his 61 years, toothpicks — thousands of them, millions of them — have been ...

As Scott Weaver, a Santa Rose artist, held his wife’s hand and they left the church as a newly wedded couple in 1989, his friends threw toothpicks in lieu of rice. Weaver collected those toothpicks ...

Every winter, the longtime Marion resident would spend months making complex structures like the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a cruise ship. But instead of drawing, painting, or ...

DAKOTA COUNTY, MN (Amazing America) — Meet Jerry Hackett, an American Artisan who turns turns toothpicks into treasures. The courthouse in Hastings, Minnesota is just one of the historic buildings ...

SPOKANE — Most booths at the Spokane County Interstate Fair get their share of lookers, people passing by to admire arts and crafts creations. But this year there is one booth where one local artist ...