Freeman Vines may not be a well known name in the music world, but his work is finally being recognized. In September, the gorgeously illustrated book “Hanging Tree Guitars,” published by Bitter ...

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood,... Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, ...

Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about ...

If you were Black and living in the American South when lynching was a popular way for Klannish whites to get their jollies out, trees weren’t simply trees. Some of them were hangin’ trees, their long ...

The creative process begins as soon as Freeman Vines touches the wood. "Nobody believes me. The wood actually lives. Each wood has an inner spirit, and if you listen you will find some magnificent ...

The sound that Freeman Vines heard more than 50 years ago so reverberated with this artist that he would spend much of the rest of his life searching for it. But after decades of trying to craft a ...

A new exhibit has opened at the Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center introducing luthier Freeman Vine and the haunting guitars he carved from the wood of a “lynching tree” used in the murder of a Black ...

A new book and museum exhibition celebrate the work of North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines. His handmade guitars are crafted from found materials and hunks of old wood, including some from a tree ...