UM: Wood Art

An article in the Quadrangle – a publication of the University of Michigan Law School – tells how wood from trees torn down on UM’s campus are being turned into bowls, clocks and other objects, and sold at the UM Museum of Art store. From the report: “The artists also have made many objects from an elm tree – in particular, an elm that stood just east of Hutchins Hall and south of the Legal Research Building. The elm tree had to be removed in July 2009 to make room for the Robert B. Aikens Commons, the new two-story, 16,000-square-foot, glass-roofed space that will include gathering spots and studying spaces for [law] faculty and students. But it also needed to be cut down for another reason: It was overrun with sprawling colonies of carpenter ants.” [Source]