When Phyllis Fitzpatrick was asked by the Baltimore Zoo to paint some animals on an unhatched ostrich egg a little more than 20 years ago as a gift for then-Gov. William Donald Schaefer, she thought ...

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Panorea Margaritis fondly remembers the countless hours her dad Stavros would spend carving layers from the shell of an emu egg. Each carved egg could take up to 600,000 scratches using a cut-throat ...

1 of 7 — Ukrainians have been crafting pysanky, elaborately decorated eggs, for thousands of years. "There's an ancient legend that as long as pysanky are made, evil will not prevail in the world," ...

A local artist specializes in Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter Eggs, which are an an ancient wax resist art form. The process uses beeswax and traditional dyes layered on real egg shells to create ...