Sheila Pepe ’83 BFA Ceramics was recently profiled by the New York Times in celebration of her newest installation at Madison Square Park. For more than two decades, Pepe has used the craft of crochet as a way to “draw” in three dimensions and infiltrate architecture. At the northern end of Madison Square Park, Pepe has suspended strips of crocheted material, measuring as long as 95 feet, from the tops of eight existing lampposts and eight 20-foot-tall telephone poles newly planted around the lawn and walkways.

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