Museum for Art in Wood hosts First Friday Opening for Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood

Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood, curated by Assistant Curator Amrut Mishra, presents artworks that revel in the incendiary properties of wood as a medium. Illustrated across twenty-six objects by twenty-two artists and largely drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Cinders delves into the enigmatic tension between permanence and fragility that materializes in fire-treated wood. Installed in the gallery of the Fleur and Charles Bresler Research Library at the Museum for Art in Wood, this exhibition presents works of installation, sculpture, and woodturning that experiment with the generative possibilities of fire. From the delicate surface decorations of pyrography to the sensual sheen of scorching, Cinders invites visitors to consider the creative but fraught threshold before combustion.