It involves working with materials such as wood, leather, tin and lead.
Working with materials from bacteria to honey, visiting artist Anicka Yi creates unique sensory installations.
In the last few decades, quite a few sculptors and installation artists working with materials scavenged from nature have risen to the forefront of the international art world.
Meanwhile, Sverdrup says other researchers, including those at NREL, are working with materials that are much more efficient than iron oxide but so far have lasted only hours.
NARI WARD: SUN SPLASHED A midcareer retrospective of the Jamaican-born, New York-based sculptor known for working with materials collected from the urban environment.
"It will be a space in which we can invite master craftspeople to conduct demonstrations and get the students involved in working with materials," he said.
Working with materials as diverse as bacteria, honey and tempura-fried flowers, Yi creates olfactory installations designed to disrupt our predominantly visual culture.
Working with materials at the microscopic level, Christopher K. Ober, Materials Science and Engineering and his lab may have the answer.
