From MichaelKoliner.com:

Michael Koliner is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He came into his sculpture practice with early experiences building skateparks after school along side the Youghiogheny River. He is a graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore with a Bachelor’s in Fine Art. He has collaborated on the production of several spaces such as Bell Foundry’s skatepark, Junk Bones, Camp Tommy, Tank Gallery, House Boat Gallery, and was selected to participate in the re-design of MICA’s sculpture studios. He has curated several shows including Reap featuring the artist Ben Kelley and Nonsense at In/Flux Gallery. Since graduating from MICA with a degree in Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Michael has worked as a designer and fabricator for Hess Industries in Baltimore, as well as for Zak Rose and Jacob Wener at Dock 6 in Chicago. He currently resides in Washington D.C. In his own words:

My work is directed towards the consumption of the built-environment. Materials, architecture, media and people are the alternating parts of my compositions. Modes of building such as construction sites, workshops, Permaculture estates, Earthships, skate parks and sculpture all emphasize the open-ended possibilities of the material world. Taking note of these things, I make fuctional/less inventions . The work is a continual alteration of how I see and what I see; what I do to a sculpture and what a sculpture does to me.

Some of his work includes:

Gracie – an apparatus that makes it possible to take hot showers in remote temperature climates. The apparatus can boil 30 gallons of water in 3 hours, and uses rocket stove technology to heat the water from twigs kindling.

A worm bin for vermicomposting