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LMCC Workspace artist Olek featured in New York Daily News
Current Workspace artist Olek
Meet New York's Queen of Crochet -- she leaves city in stitches from walls to Wall Street
BY Corky Siemaszko Daily News Staff Writer
Picture the Statue of Liberty greeting the huddled masses while wearing a full-length, hot pink, crocheted sweater. A whimsical Brooklyn artist named Olek does every time she looks in her direction.
On Christmas Eve, she cloaked the iconic "Charging Bull" statue on Wall Street - from horn to hoof - with a pink, camouflage-patterned cover that she crocheted herself. Since then, Olek - real name Agata Oleksiak - has found herself sizing up other famous city landmarks as possible candidates for her guerrilla sweater treatment.
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January 23, 2011permalink
Previously: LMCC Workspace writer Melissa Seley interviews Workspace artist Olek in Paper Mag
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