Estimated to be between 80 and 120 years old, the Brown University elm had escaped Dutch elm disease, only to succumb to other environmental factors. (Colleen Cronin/ecoRI News)
PROVIDENCE — Eiden Spilker’s adventure turning a 100-year-old elm tree into art was “sort of happenstance,” he said, or perhaps a series of happenstances.
Spilker, who graduated from Brown University in 2024, is a technical specialist and maker-in-residence at the Brown Design Workshop, where students and members of the community have access to sewing machines to 3D printers…