Established in 1965, Intersection is widely considered to be one of the most vital cultural centers on the West Coast. Intersection recently forged a set of unique cross-­‐sector partnerships rooted in a shared belief that art and creativity realized through meaningful, inclusive, and collaborative places fuels vibrancy and facilitates positive change. The change the world needs now happens when we are outside of our silos – colliding with complex experiences, grappling with new metaphors, understanding people who are different than us, finding new ways to communicate and problem solve.  Through our unique partnership, we are collaborating on The 5M Project. Led by Forest City, The 5M Project is a 4-­‐acre multi-­‐phase, mixed-­‐use development project located at the intersection of several distinct neighborhoods in downtown San Francisco.  With 5M, we are prototyping the next generation of urban development that embraces diversity of thought, life experience, and culture as essential to positive economic and social change in our neighborhoods. 5M proposes that art – creative collaboration, placemaking, and problem solving – builds understanding and community, celebrates and mobilizes neighborhood assets, and drives inclusive change.

About the participating artists in By-­product Becomes Product:

Lead artist CHRISTINE  LEE (www.missleelee.com) is a sculptor, furniture maker, and installation artist whose creative practice is characterized by an objective to reveal the latent potential of disregarded material. She received her MFA from San Diego State University in 2007 and has exhibited her work in group exhibitions locally at the Museum of Craft and Design, Headlands Center for the Arts, Invisible Venue, Intersection for the Arts, Recology SF, and San Francisco State University, and in group exhibitions nationally at the Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), The Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY), Art Produce Gallery (San Diego, CA), and Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA). She has been a visiting resident artist at the ASU Art Museum (Tempe, AZ), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), and an Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-­‐Madison, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park (Cazenovia, NY), Purchase College (Purchase, NY), and Recology SF.  She has taught at ASU, California College of the Arts, and San Diego State University and also worked as a studio assistant for new media artist Jim Campbell and woodworker Wendy Maruyama.  She has presented lectures and participated on panel discussions at the ASU Art Museum, Yale University, Stanford University, Maine College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Arkansas-­‐Little Rock.

RUSSELL  BALDON (www.russellbaldon.posterous.com) is a sculptor and furniture maker who was born and raised in California. He was a partner in his family’s wooden toy business before moving to San Francisco in 1984. After receiving his BFA in Wood/Furniture from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1992 and his MFA in Wood/Furniture from San Diego State University in 1998, he studied and worked with some of the country’s leading studio furniture makers. In 1999, he helped to form a cooperative studio in Alameda, CA, where members pursue many commissioned and speculative furniture and sculptural works in a 5,000-­‐square-­‐foot wood and metal shop. Since 2002 Baldon has taught in the Furniture Program at CCA, and has served as chair of the program since 2009. He also has had the honor of teaching at Laney College’s Wood Technology Program (Oakland, CA), Haystack School of Craft (Deer Isle, ME), Penland School of Crafts (Spruce Pine, NC), San Diego State University, and the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts (Portland, OR).  His work has been included in group exhibitions locally at LIMN Gallery, Fort Mason, and Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and in group exhibitions nationally at Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Lexington Art League (Lexington, KY), and Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA).    

JULIA  GOODMAN (www.jagoodman.com) is a papermaker and sculptor who received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2009, after studying studio arts at Santa Monica College from 2004–2007 and earning her BA in International Relations  and Peace and Justice Stuides at Tufts University in 2001.  Her work has been included in exhibitions locally at Rena Bransten Gallery, Performance Art Institute, ProArts Gallery, Varnish Art Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, Richmond Art Center, Lincart, Triple Base, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and in group exhibitions nationally at Project 4 (Washington, DC), Dieu Donne (New York, NY), Highways Performance Art Space (Santa Monica, CA), and Long Beach Arts (Long Beach, CA).  She was awarded a J.B. Blunk Artist Residency (Inverness, CA), completed a studio internship at Dieu Donné Papermill Inc. (New York, NY) and a residency in Kona, HI, and is a 2012 resident artist at Recology SF.  She not only casts paper in the traditional method, but pushes the medium into sculptural form.  In her recent body of work, she has been carving into MDF to create molds with which to cast paper pulp in a process residing between sculpture and printmaking.

BARBARA  HOLMES (www.barbaraholmes.com) is a sculptor and furniture maker who received her MFA from San Diego State University in 2002 and her BFA from Brigham Young University in 1993.  Her work has been included in group exhibitions locally at Headlands Center for the Arts, Museum of Craft and Design, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Root Division, Catherine Clark Gallery, Compound Gallery, and LIMN Gallery, and in group exhibitions nationally at the Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA), Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA), Divan Gallery (La Jolla, CA), Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), and Sushi Art Space (San Diego, CA).  She has been awarded Artist Residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village, CO), Recology SF, and Capital City Arts Initiative at St. Mary’s Art Center (Virginia City, NV), and has work in the permanent collection at SFMOMA. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-­‐Madison, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, Mira Costa College, and currently at CCA. Her practice has focused on the reclamation and creative reuse of discarded construction material.

JOHN  F. HUNT (www.fpl.fs.fed.us)  is a Research Mechanical Engineer who has been working at the country’s leading wood research institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI, since 1979.  His research focuses on developing new ways to improve wood fiber products with cutting edge technology and production methods. Understanding the fundamental properties of wood fibers, he has extensive research background knowledge on molded fiber products and recycling paper into structural products, and is passionately committed to finding innovative ways to use wood waste. His research background knowledge includes molded fiber products, Spaceboard, Gridcore, wet-­‐formed fiberboard manufacturing, recycling paper into structural products, press drying paper, fiberglass in fiberboard, honeycomb paper cores and sandwich construction, veneer peeling, and laminated paper.  He also works on three-­‐dimensional modeling of paper laminates, composites, small diameter utilization through laminated structural lumber, and whole tree fiberization.

SCOTT  OLIVER’s (www.scottoliverworks.com) diverse practice explores our entangled relationship with objects and materiality through, what he calls, “poetic repurposing.” His work has taken many forms including in-­‐home sculptural interventions, a symbiotic restaurant, a collection of discarded LPs, an elaborate parlor game with students, and most recently, a multi-­‐faceted public project at Lake Merritt in Oakland. He is also a maker of objects, and while he does not claim any particular medium his background in design and woodworking are often evident in his work. He holds a BFA (1994) in Graphic Design and an MFA (2005) in Wood/Furniture from California College of the Arts. His work has been shown widely in the Bay Area at the deYoung Art Center, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, Triple Base, Oakland Museum, Johansson Projects, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Arts Commission Gallery, Mission 17, and Rena Bransten Gallery; and nationally at Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery (Portland, OR), and UCLA.  He has received awards and grants for his work from the East Bay Community Foundation, Center for Cultural Innovation, the City of Oakland, and Southern Exposure. He was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2009 and at Recology SF in 2007. He has taught at the California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley. He currently lives and works in Fort Bragg, CA with his wife and their son.    

IMIN  YEH (www.iminyeh.info)  attended the University of Wisconsin-­‐Madison receiving a Bachelors of Art and Art History with Asian Option and an MFA at California College of the Arts in 2009. She creates sculptures, installations, downloadable crafts, and participatory artist-­‐led projects. Recent projects include a 2012 commission from the San Jose Museum of Art and a year-­‐long parasitic contemporary art space called SpaceBi that takes place in the Asian Art Museum. She has exhibited locally at the 01 Biennial, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Meridian Gallery, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, 18 Reasons, Pro Arts Gallery, Mission Cultural Center, and Southern Exposure and has received awards and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Barclay Simpson Award, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship.  She has completed residencies at Blue Mountain Center in New York, Mission Grafica in San Francisco, and Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, CA.