When Chris Maynard collects cast-off feathers, it’s a choosy process. “I can’t use feathers from most any bird in my country, ” he says. No eagles; no seagulls; no songbirds; no crows. Those birds—along with their parts—are highly protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty and CITES acts. “A lot of artists don’t pay attention to these rules, but they’re quite important to me,” he says. A former entomologist and hydrology biologist, Maynard switched over to full-time artist in 2008. He’s been working with feathers from birds since he was 12-years-old, but began snipping, arranging, and photographing them in his Olympia, Washington studio just last year. His namesake pieces are carved-out feathers, which are featured in his online menagerie, “Featherfolio.” In late 2014, he also published Feathers: Form and Function, a book that serves as an education on evolution of avian flight. When obtaining the feathers for his art, Maynard usually takes from the likes...