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Web sight: A hands-on, words-on fiber art project
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
show tickets, and leave them
on the web. Pollard was inter-
“With the right words, you viewed prior to the closure.
can change the world.” —
2,500 knots, 40 hours
Charlotte
In a world of negative social
“This project was all vol-
media, this is one web site that unteer work, and I was very
is purely positive.
excited to take this on. I am
A four-by-six-foot interactive very happy and grateful be part
web made by Hood River fiber of something I feel brings our
artist Kristine Pollard graces community to a beautiful and
the lobby of Columbia Center inspiring place — theater and
for the Arts, in a project in- art,” Pollard said of CCA and
spired by the play “Charlotte’s CCA Children’s Theater.
“Charlotte wrote positive
Web” — on stage earlier this
month, though canceled, at and encouraging words in the
web in this story,” Pollard said.
CCA.
“The idea for this interactive
Prior to COVID-19 closures,
CCA among them, anyone piece is that people will be
could come and attach a writ- able to do the same and write
ten message to Pollard’s web, the words that resonate with
made of two-millimeter natu- them and pin these words to
ral cotton string. Until further the web. I love this idea, and
notice, the only way to see the I really look forward to seeing
work by Pollard is just inside this web fill up.”
Pollard has shown her mac-
the front lobby window. One
plan was for people to write rame rope art in two shows
messages on the back of their with CCA.
News editor
Photos by Luke Southall
WEB at CCA, by Kristine Pol-
lard, with community mem-
bers’ comments. Pollard’s fiber
art work was also displayed at
M.E. Jewelry Co. & Atelier, 216
Jewett Blvd., White Salmon,
where seven local artists’ work
is on exhibit.
“They reached out to me
with the thought of creating a
large, interactive web,” Pollard
noted.
“They left it up to me on
what I would end up creating,
but with their vision in mind,
and sent me home with the
wooden frame to work with.
This frame was a stage prop
that seemed to fit perfectly
with the ideas we were creating
together,” she said.
Pollard, a self-taught fiber
artist, said, “I do very much
love the challenge and the
great rewards of this. It was
my second try at this as I have
never created a web like this
and of this size.
“I lost track of how many feet
of string was used but there are
over 2,500 knots in this, and it
took about 40 or more hours to
create,” Pollard said.
Photo by Kirby Neumann-Rea
W ASH
Y OUR
H ANDS
HR County Reads
suspended
City of Hood River has in-
stalled hand-washing sta-
tions, like this one at Jackson
Park, at parks throughout
the city, in response to the
coronavirus.
The Friends of the Hood
River County Library announc-
es the postponement of the
Hood River Reads 2020 pro-
gram due to COVID-19.
The Friends of the Library is
looking forward to holding this
program at a later time. Before
the temporary closure of the
Hood River Library, more than
500 books were distributed to
the community.
The Friends encourage pa-
trons to read their copy of “The
Highest Tide” by Jim Lynch
and discuss the book with
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