Article from the Rapid City Journal. This image is for sale on their website.
Becka, of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN (which will be doing some yarn bombing of its own this month) sent me an article about a mother and daughter team yarn bombing presidential statues in Rapid City:
Earlier this month, colorful cowls or scarves were draped around the necks of the presidential statues of John Kennedy, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Taft, Lyndon Johnson, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and the antique fountain on Sixth Street. John Adams, and George Bush Sr. were bundled up the following week. Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt were dressed in new knitwear during last week’s cold front.
The daughter Joleen Klubek is quoted as saying: “I feel that we’re doing art and helping the homeless people at the same time.”
Read the article in the Rapid City Journal here. Photo gallery of images here.
Furthermore:
- More Olympic yarn bombing – the Beautiful pillars at the Squamish Arts Council by Krisztina Egyed – wow!
- Eastney - First Yarnbomb by Claire Sambrooke. Nice colours, nice beach.
- Amazing knitted tree and The Nature Pillar, a crazy, floral beanstalk, over at the Snail Garden.
