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They also use those mills to score specialty items for Uhuru Productions, a recently launched arm of the company run by designer Maria Cristina Rueda, which focuses on event production and fabrication for artists. The big leaf-maple burl on the left and the slab on the right, for example, are part of an art piece Uhuru is working on for the artist Dan Colen, who graduated a year ahead of them at RISD.