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Featured Boneyard artist former pathologist uses bones as inspiration

This year’s Boneyard Art Festival’s featured artist is Charles Wisseman, a former pathologist at Carle hospital. He combines wood, steel forgings, ceramics, handmade papers, alternative photo processes, and other materials into mixed media sculptures, books, and boxes. Check out the photo below titled “Bones and Things,” I think I spy a vertebrae. Check out his work at this year’s art festival April 7 – 10th. 

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