It's an amazing, colorful, unique and fun art exhibit. Art created by manipulating fabric, wool, yarn and other fibers. Manipulating fiber to create beautiful pieces. When the mail started arriving a week prior to the show we unpacked pieces from Connecticut and Colorado, Texas and North Carolina. The boxes came in from Maine and California, Wisconsin and Georgia. The staff and volunteers opening the boxes got more and more excited with each entry.
And then came the croc…..the huge saltwater crocodile we'd been waiting for! The piece is so large that the layout was planned around this quilt. And month by month we watched quilt artist, Susan Carlson, on her blog as she worked on "Stevie"….we watched with fingers crossed! We waited with some concern as we got closer and closer to the exhibit…..but yes, Stevie arrived on Saturday and we hung her on Monday.
Phew.
The volunteers and staff worked hard to hang this piece - ladders, pipes, wires…..and then there she was - the centerpiece of a beautiful exhibit hung in a wonderful, historic barn. Come and see her, come and see all of the work. "From Insects to Elephants" is a beautiful display.
A few months ago all the news was about the lion spotted in Milwaukee! Many people saw the lion and professionals tried to catch it….to no avail.
Well a saltwater crocodile has been spotted in the area…..just west of the Milwaukee River in a small community known as Cedarburg. Keep your eyes open and drive on over to see if you can spot the reptile, and the fish, and the hippos, and the tiger, and the butterflies, and the elephant and the bison and the luna moth, and the wolf, and the rhino and the pelicans and so many more astonishing creatures!
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