LEOMINSTER – The city is certainly proud of one of its claims to fame, the pink flamingo lawn ornament, and has 40 flamingo crosswalk paintings downtown to prove it. The wading bird will be celebrated ...

The Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM) in central Massachusetts is on a mission to redefine its role. "Many art museums are very busy serving art — and we look at it a little differently," director Nick ...

It happened this past week ... the loss of the leading light of lawn ornamentation. For we learned of the death this past Monday of Don Featherstone. An art school graduate-turned-plastic fabricator, ...

Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist, who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo - the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch. And it ...

Donald Featherstone, who died on Monday at 79, may not be a household name, but the artist was the creator of the ubiquitous pink plastic flamingo, found on suburban lawns across the country for over ...

Fifty nine years ago, a young graduate of the Worcester Art Museum school sculpted a pink flamingo. Working from photos in a National Geographic magazine, Donald Featherstone created the now iconic ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A new art installation in Boston is welcoming in the spring weather in an unusual way. A local developer has set up 1,900 pink lawn flamingos on Seaport Common. WS Development says the ...

Rivaled only by the garden gnome and tiki torch, pink flamingos are the ubiquitous lawn ornament of choice for homeowners seeking a vintage, kitschy, ironically tacky splash of summer Americana in the ...