
New Performing Arts Center Exhibit Uses Roadside Tire Chains to Create Unique Owls
PARA ESPAÑOL, HAGA CLIC AQUÍ. Summit County-based artist Eric Kircher has been working with metal to create two- and three-dimensional metal artwork for more than 30 years. His previous day job helped. As the operations manager for Buffalo Mountain Metro District for 35 years, Kircher collected used and discarded shovels that he transformed into art. After he retired two years ago, the necessity of finding a new source of material led Eric to highway shoulders, where discarded tire chains now serve as both muse and matter. “In one sitting, I …