More than 20 surfboards-turned-artworks are on display around Morro Bay, Calif., in the town’s first such public art on display through November. The Surfboard Art Festival features boards that have ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Before it partnered with the California Surf Museum for a dual-venue ...

My buddy Erik and I do a double take. “Did you see that?” Erik asks? “The Queen of England, on a surfboard?” I turn around. There she is sure enough, and wow! She has her eyes closed, looking like, ...

When surfer and starving artist John Severson showed his work at a Laguna Beach gallery in 1955, his boldly colored abstract paintings of longboarders and the California coast didn’t exactly set the ...

Art Basel has nothing on the art exhibit opening in Palm Beach County Friday night. '15 surfboards by 15 Shapers'opens at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in downtown Lake Worth. The amazing ...

Stephen Pearson is an artist. His medium is heavy-duty Styrofoam, and his work is not meant to be hung on a wall. In fact, the less time his artwork is indoors, the better. Pearson's passion is ...

Five minutes before the 2015 Quiksilver Pro final in Hossegor, France, Gabriel Medina stopped at the shoreline. He knelt down, folded his arms atop his board, and bowed his head in prayer. Any ...

One thing that has always impressed me, but a thing that I never quite got down myself, is the art of patching a surfboard. Yeah, I have always done it but I never took much pride in my work or went ...

Dennis Jarvis shut his eyes and felt around the edges of a partially shaped piece of foam surfboard. He worked his fingers along the sides like a blind man reading braille, stopping for a moment when ...