Furniture artist to help celebrate Wisconsin’s forestry heritage

Fusing cutting-edge technology with undervalued wood from the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, art professor Tom Loeser, his students and two colleagues have created art objects and furniture to celebrate 100 years of sustainable forestry in Wisconsin.

The results, on display in the exhibition “Supernatural: Furniture Exploring the Traditions and Potential of Wisconsin Forestry,” will be at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 1922 University Ave., through Friday, June 4. After that, the pieces will travel to the Northern Great Lakes Visitors Center in Ashland, Friday, June 11-Thursday, Aug. 12.

The exhibition is a partnership among the wood and furniture area of the UW–Madison Department of Art, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Forestry Division, the Forest Products Laboratory and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.