DALLAS — For decades, a Dallas man has been making prosthetic eyes for patients who've lost one, and his journey to helping others has a beginning that many of his patients can relate with. Since the ...

Fred Harwin is an ocularist, and the Director for the Center for Ocular Prosthetics in Portland. A former medical illustrator, Harwin currently creates highly detailed artificial eyes. A process that ...

Fred Harwin has the soul of an artist, the technique of a master craftsman—and a remarkable eye for eyes. For the past 40 years, Harwin has been Portland's premier ocularist, painting and fitting ...

For nearly 40 years, East Texan Terry Trawnik has occupied a space where medical science meets fine art. As a master ocularist, he has spent his career using “teeny tiny brushes” and a steady hand to ...

Starting out: James Tannehill, a licensed optician, started the family business by fabricating ocular prostheses for people who had lost one or both eyes due to trauma or illness. His son, Doss, took ...

ittle-known fact about the little-known world of ocularists: During World War II, supplies of the German glass used for making prosthetic eyes fell, so the U.S. Army organized a team to figure out a ...

To look at Ivan Carranza, a bubbly little boy who wiggles his hips whenever music plays, and who waddles up to strangers to hug them around their knees, one wouldn't guess he has trouble looking back.

To look at Ivan Carranza, a bubbly little boy who wiggles his hips whenever music plays, and who waddles up to strangers to hug them around their knees, one wouldn't guess he has trouble looking back.

When Greg Sankey was a boy, his father nudged him into building model cars. Greg remembers working alongside Orville Sankey, painting “Goodyear” on the tiny tires, lining the engines with thin gas ...