By-product Becomes Product

Intersection for the Arts presents By-product Becomes Product, an innovative cross-disciplinary project using excess wood waste to explore safer alternatives to working with toxic material. Featuring lead artist Christine Lee (sculpture, furniture), U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL, the country's leading wood research institute) Research Engineer John F. Hunt, and five artists who use wood as their main material: Russell Baldon (sculpture, furniture), Julia Goodman (paper, sculpture), Barbara Holmes (sculpture, furniture), Scott Oliver (sculpture, public art), and Imin Yeh (printmaker).

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Saturday March 9, 1-3pm
Presentation by Art Inspector Danielle Siembieda-Gribben on healthier and safer practices in the artist's studio

Saturday March 23, 1-3 pm
Artists' Talk

The exhibition will showcase a broad range of conceptual and aesthetic styles, demonstrating diversity of construction and fabrication techniques, and blurring boundaries between fine art, craft, industrial design, and interactive installation. By-product Becomes Product embodies Intersection's commitment to supporting innovative thought that facilitates positive change by working with an artist who has proactively developed material that is sustainable, non-toxic, and highly usable in artistic, craft, and industrial fields by manifesting scientific and engineering expertise into real-world applications.