Cheryl Capezzuti has been using the discards of American culture as sculptural media to explore who we are for almost thirty years. Her first tiny work with dryer lint appeared as a figurative sculpture made from a single load of lint when she was a graduate student in 1994. Supported by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Capezzuti spent four years from 2000-2004 as the Artist-in-Residence at Duds-N-Suds Laundromat in Pittsburgh, where she collected stories and dryer lint from launderers during weekly art happenings in the space.