{"id":1030,"date":"2015-01-23T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2015-01-23T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:08:22","slug":"interesting-fiber-art-exhibits-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/interesting-fiber-art-exhibits-in-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Fiber Art Exhibits in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daughter and I decided that after 3 days of moving her into her new apartment in Denver that we would take one day to sightsee around Denver.<\/p>\n

We went to a really wonderful neighborhood on Broadway that had alot of great antique, thrift and other stores.\u00a0 We ate at an Argentinian cafe called Maria Empanada, which I highly recommend–the mushroom torta is ‘to die for’<\/em>.\u00a0 While in the Broadway neighborhood I saw my first ‘yarn-bombing’–a bicycle rack covered in knitted and crocheted squares.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/span>:\u00a0 Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti<\/a> or street art<\/a> that employs colourful displays of knitted<\/a> or crocheted<\/a> yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.<\/p>\n

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DD behind a ‘Yarn-bombed’ Bike Rack in Denver, CO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we went downtown to the Denver Art Museum (DAM) where\u00a0we saw the following exhibit that sparked my Fiber-Art-Loving interest.<\/p>\n

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Me (The ShuttleSmith) and DD at DAM (I’m the old\/fat one)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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DD peaking out from the Blanket exhibit at DAM–notice tags that tell each blanket’s story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a relatively new exhibit (Sept 2013) in which blankets were donated & collected from the community\u00a0along \u00a0with stories about the blankets meaning and memories to the owner.\u00a0\u00a0 Each blanket has a tag attached to it with its ‘story’.\u00a0\u00a0 The stories were published in a book (one was located next to the exhibit).\u00a0<\/em> The blankets were stacked (quite high<\/em>) to become part of a permanent artwork and blanket story column installed in the\u00a0American Indian art gallery.\u00a0 The artist’s (Marie Watt) work is centered\u00a0around community, particularly through her use of wool blankets.\u00a0 Wouldn’t this be an interesting way to accumulate other fiber art pieces such as lace, doilies, dish towels, etc. to preserve historical memories to bygone times?!?!?!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daughter and I decided that after 3 days of moving her into her new apartment in Denver that we would take one day to sightsee around Denver. We went to a really wonderful neighborhood on Broadway that had alot of great antique, thrift and other stores.\u00a0 We ate at an Argentinian cafe called Maria … Continue reading Interesting Fiber Art Exhibits in Denver<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}