Hazard Factory

HazardFactory is an Industrial Arts studio that produces work in which risk and the artistic re-direction of technology are key components.

Owner & “Chief Executive Lunatic” of the HazardFactory, Rusty, invents, experiments, and produces events. He often collaborates with local authors, engineers and scientists to produce new work.

Rusty is an artist and instructor with twenty years of professional welding experience. He has carried certification for Structural Unlimited welding. Rusty welds and works every conventional material and has taught casting, machining, blacksmithing, electronic, robotic, and foundry-work. Rusty has developed and delivered federally funded curriculum. He has taught tens of thousands of students. His students recommend him for his ability to make technical subjects accessible and fun. Rusty has instructed at the Coyote School students, Pratt Fine Arts Center, and South Seattle Community College and his own fully equipped 3000 sq ft sculptural metalworking facility, Hazard Factory.