There’s strength in numbers. Artist Stephan Wanger knows that. He wanted to make a strong statement with his art, wanted to create sweeping scenes of Louisiana in rich, bright colors and careful ...

Local artist Stephan Wanger on Tuesday (Aug. 5) revealed plans to break his own Guinness World record for largest bead art mosaic with the Hotel Monteleone. Councilmember Nadine Ramsey and Mark Romig ...

This story begins with artist Stephan Wanger challenging himself to double a Guinness World Record. It ends with an art critic's challenge to Wanger. Wanger is Louisiana's premier maker of Mardi Gras ...

New Orleans resident Stephan Wanger is building the largest beaded mosaic made of Mardi Gras beads to feature the French Quarter.It's part of an ongoing project that was developed in New Orleans, then ...

GARY | The artist who created the Bead Town exhibit that opened Thursday in Gary said he's excited about bringing his colorful works to the region. “It’s an incredible honor for me to be here because ...

DENHAM SPRINGS — Thirty years of Mardi Gras history will be unveiled at 6:30 p.m. Friday during a grand opening of the traveling Bead Town exhibit at Old City Hall. The exhibit, created by self-taught ...

Stephan Wanger’s Bead Town projects were already locally famous by then. Although Stephan arrived in New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, his project of creating works of large, publicly ...

Reem Al Gurg, the Emirati record-holder, is at the fair with her 3.75-square-metre bead mosaic called ‘Dates’ that took four months to complete with 18,231 wooden beads. Al Gurg’s creation is ...

Although Hayward Guenard may be focused on campus life while at the office, the Nicholls State University director of housing and residence life spends his off-time working on a unique hobby. Guenard, ...

She is the first woman in the Middle East to enter the Guinness World Records book. And she's just 25. Meet Emirati Reem Al Gurg, who made it to the record books by creating what has been officially ...