Monday, May 9, 2011

Artist Profile

Pittsburgh loses lots of trees to development, disease and pests every year and the Urban Tree Forge gives some of the timber a second life as building material, furniture and art. The woodworker John Metzler founded the organization. He was killed in May 2010 by a runaway U-haul trailer as he cut wood outside the Forge. DUQ's Larkin Page-Jacobs has his artist profile.
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