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••••• I graduated from Bemidji State University with a BFA focusing in painting and drawing. Since then, I have moved back to Fargo to continue making art. I have combined my love for art and kids and currently teach classes at the Plains Art Museum. Within the past year I have learned how to felt wool. There is two different ways you can felt. One is called wet felting. This is when you use hot soapy water and agitate the wool until it shrinks. The second way is called dry or needle felting. This is when you use a barbed needle to poke and poke and poke the wool which agitates it and it eventually starts to shrink. I used needle felting on the majority of my buffalo and wet felting on the spiky tuffs of hair. It is a tediously slow process. I enjoy this because it connects me with what I am doing and the materials. Needle felting demands attention, if I disconnect myself from what I am doing, I get stabbed. I was interested in doing this project because I wanted to challenge myself with my new knowledge of felting. When I received my Buffalo, I had no idea where to start but, by the end, had fallen in love with my "Buffy" and she was hard to give up.
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