For the past few years, our favorite feature to produce in our annual publication, The Current, hasn’t been in some far-flung location, but rather right at home on our campus with the immense talent that exists between our factory walls, where the tenacity of our team is on full display. While our material medium is primarily in the realm of copper and brass, our collective mettle is something much stronger. It’s a bond forged in commitments made to each other and cemented through creative challenges endured and overcome day in and day out. So often intangible, vibrating beneath the surface, we attempted to capture this unassailably black and white quality and its inherent contrasts in the place where our own material journey begins, Building 56, the longtime home of our machine shop.

Take a look back at previous installments of this UECo. portrait series from The Current, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3.