CHICO — Later this month, Losang Samten, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, will make his fourth visit to Butte County to create a sand mandala. On Feb. 14, he’ll begin creating the mandala, a colorful sand ...

Sometimes his immaculate apartment looks like a big sandbox with dozens of bowls filled with colorful sands, which he collects from around the world: purple from Big Sur and Idaho, black and green ...

fur. But almost no one undertakes the kind of art piece that 32-year-old Gerard Minakawa — founder of Ukao, a Santa Barbara-based bamboo furniture company — plans to execute this year: the Starry ...

Meredith Brower’s studio in a barn her father built for their horses in the late 1960s on the family farm; it’s where she and her siblings spent hours playing when they were young. Brower, a ...

Thupten Thomke has never seen Tibet. His parents fled when the country was annexed by China in 1959, the year Thomke was born. Thomke was raised in northern India, where he now lives, but he dreams of ...