Wood turned vessels on display at Taubman Center - Michigan Medicine Headlines

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Bob Savit is simply a woodturner, cellist and emeritus prof of physics astatine U-M. 

As a theoretical physicist, his technological enactment was wide-ranging including precocious vigor physics, non-linear systems and statistical mechanics. 

Working successful wood for implicit 25 years, Savit uses section home hardwoods and immoderate imported woods to make a scope of elegant vessels, from bowls and platters to partition hangings and decorative hollow vase forms. He strives to stress equilibrium and signifier successful his pieces and supply a showcase for the lukewarm and entrancing atom and fig of the wood. Some of his pieces besides incorporated restrained aboveground embellishments specified arsenic carving, texturing and coloring.

Some of his enactment is present connected show astatine Michigan Medicine:

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Where: Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1.

When: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. regular done March 3

http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/exhibits.htm#savit

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