The Goldendale Community Library is working on two community art projects and invites all to participate.
In a previous letter to the editor in The Sentinel, there was mention of a Yarn Bomb at the library. What is a Yarn Bomb? It is a community art project where public objects, such as trees and lampposts, are wrapped with knitted and crocheted pieces connected together, creating a public work of art.
In celebration of Knit in Public Day, the library invites everyone to visit the library through the month of May, bring their yarn and needles–or use what is provided in the library–and work on a weekly yarn challenge. All knitted and crocheted pieces will be gathered and put together on June 11, wrapping the trees in front of the library. If you aren’t able to visit the library but still want to participate, you can call the library to find out what the weekly challenge is, then bring what you have created to the library when you have time–just so long as it is before June 11.
Why a Yarn Bomb? As part of the ongoing program in partnership with the Maryhill Museum of Art’s The Exquisite Gorge Project II: Fiber Arts, the library is celebrating fiber art and artists in the community.
The second community art project is in association with the NASA @ My Library grant, and the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is the largest of its kind and has hexagonal mirrors with infrared sensitivity that can measure light from distant galaxies. The library is celebrating the successful launch of the telescope and what it will show us about the history of the universe, potential life on other planets, and how stars are born.
Visit the Goldendale Library during the month of May and create your own artwork on one of the hexagons supplied. These will be put together and displayed in the library for the month of June. After June, the community art will be consolidated into a compact archival bag and placed in the time capsule that will be buried during Community Days this year.
