About
Interlock Arts is a design studio, founded in 2024 by Chase Hanna, working at the intersection of trade craft and creative practice — laser-cut architectural panels, large-scale sculpture, custom furniture, and immersive environments where engineered detail meets handwork.
We design it, fabricate it, and install it. Our 5,000 sq ft shop in Moodus, Connecticut takes a project from a sketch, through CAD, through a hybrid laser cutter and CNC router, through welding and finishing, and out the door to install — usually with the same team end to end.
the work is authored
Chase Hanna brings eighteen years of construction trade experience to the studio. He started in plumbing during the 2008 recession and worked through residential remodeling, finish carpentry, demolition, artisan concrete, and stage and event fabrication — the trade knowledge that now sits underneath every Interlock build.
A parallel career in tattooing and sculpture started at nineteen. For over a decade he taught himself to paint, sculpt, and design at scale: hand-stretched canvases, hand-painted tempered glass, copper sculpture pulled from plumbing scrap, freehand dotwork mandalas. The two paths converged when laser cutting offered a way to translate handwork into precise, repeatable, architectural-grade output without losing the one-of-a-kind feel.
He designed the Atlas 9 jazz club, the Burning Man sculpture, and the Terra Luna chandelier. The radial, layered, laser-cut language that runs through a 60-foot ceiling and a piece on a wall in someone's house is one signature, drawn by one hand.
the studio floor
A team of eight, 120 years in the trades between them. Backgrounds run from traditional carpentry to metalwork to tattoo work — a mix that brings the discipline of one shot to get it right onto the shop floor.
Design and fabrication is led by Chase. The floor runs as specialist seats, not one person wearing every hat:
Lead Fabrication — metal and wood build-out
Lead Finishing — spray finishing, staining, sealing, and fireproofing; the hand that takes a raw cut part to a client-ready surface
Laser & Layout — nesting, cut files, and machine work
Install & Rigging — on-site assembly and overhead rigging
Operations & Logistics — project coordination, client communication, scheduling, and the business side that lets the shop focus on the build
it survives us
When Time Mission needed the Jungle Room at venues across the country and abroad, we rebuilt the model, resolved it into a documented kit of parts, and wrote the assembly so crews we have never met put it up correctly, every time.
A studio whose work goes up right without its own hands on it does not depend on any one person being in the room.
the shop
Interlock operates out of a 5,000 sq ft workshop inside a rehabilitated 80,000 sq ft mill in Moodus, Connecticut — twenty-five minutes east of Hartford, deep enough in the woods to run heavy equipment without bothering anyone. The building dates to the 1800s; the shop is brand new: full electrical rebuild, dedicated lighting, dust and fume mitigation, two-bay garage doors, and roughly 3,500 sq ft of flex space for fabrication, metalwork, spray finishing, and assembly.
Built to take full-scale architectural projects in-house — from 4×8 sheet stock to 30-foot ceiling installations — without farming work out.
