The Migratory Waterfowl Art Committee knows it is being laughed at. It has heard the snickering. Seen the heads shaking in disbelief. It’s OK. Water off a duck’s back to them. They’ve heard it all ...

EASTON — Impressionist painter Nancy Tankersley of Easton was the featured artist of the Waterfowl Festival in 2019. Her large soulful canvases hang in the Art in the Pavilion tent this year.

Easton should be a popular spot next weekend, with wildlife devotees flocking to town in large numbers for the annual Waterfowl Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary from Friday to Sunday.

In a hall at the Bruce Museum, a crowd is at the edge of their seats — watching as hundreds of waterfowl paintings are paraded out — one at a time. A row of five judges examines each one — slowly and ...

TUSCALOOSA | For 26 years, David Nix submitted waterfowl paintings for the Alabama Waterfowl Stamp Art Contest without winning. Now he has won the last two he entered. “I guess you have to be ...

There are ducks hanging on the walls of Ericka Smith DeLong’s studio. All kinds of them. There are ducks in flight, ducks on land, ducks in water and ducks watching over their young and eggs that ...

The handsome shoveler duck stares out of the painting with the complicated mixture of pride and defiance that waterfowl lovers admire. He’s guarding his turf: a placid female, a gray patch of ...

A painting of a pair of wood ducks by rural Ladysmith artist Craig Fairbert is the 2010 Wisconsin waterfowl stamp contest winner, completing Fairbert’s goal of winning all five stamp contests ...

As a boy growing up in Hutchinson, Kurt Kegler happened upon a Les Kouba painting in his hometown library. Kegler remembers thinking it was “pretty neat.” He decided to follow in Kouba’s footsteps as ...

Minnesota is the production floor of North America's duck factory. Our northwest prairie pothole region is a major part of a landscape vital to maintenance of duck populations. That's the observation ...

As magazine editor and senior director of communications for Delta Waterfowl, Paul Wait of New London reviews more than a thousand still images of ducks and geese each year. And after three decades of ...