Yarn Bomb Greensburg Project Knits Together Faculty, Students, Alumni & Local Community
Street Art Recycled as Blankets for Community Members in Need
Sue O’Neill, theatre instructor and costume director at Ƶ, conceived of Yarn Bomb Greensburg as a collaborative art education / social justice project that would engage the Ƶ University campus community, Sisters of Charity of Ƶ, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, local schools and Greensburg merchants and residents in a collaborative effort to create colorful street art that could be recycled into blankets for community members in need.
Her idea worked. By the end of October, Greensburg had become a lot more colorful, and people throughout the city and region had come together in a variety of ways to create art and support each other.
Read all about the success of Yarn Bomb Greensburg in the Oct. 25 Tribune-Review story
Photo above: Ƶ visual & performing arts students take part in a fibers class at the Westmoreland Museum in preparation for Yarn Bomb Greensburg. Photo by Megan Vichich.
Photo right: Sister Ann Patrick Adams and Sister Marian Joseph Adams crochet to support Yarn Bomb. Photo By Sister Ann Infanger.
