Racy rug snatched from Linfield College exhibit
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) - Tamera Bremer titled the life-size nude self-portrait she laboriously wove into a rug "the sexy sex: all-nude review rug one."
Somebody apparently found it fetching, and it vanished from an exhibit floor at Linfield College.
Bremer says the latch-hook work took thousands of hours and she valued it in the five-figure range.
It was the first in a five-rug project the Portland artist, an adjunct professor at Linfield, has in the works.
The curvy cutout was fashioned from monk's cloth, a heavy cotton, and hand-painted in ten colors on alpaca yarn.
A video camera and two pieces of student art also are missing.
McMinnville Police Captain Dennis Marks says officers will check with local second-hand stores. But if it's college kids, he says it's probably in somebody's room.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Somebody apparently found it fetching, and it vanished from an exhibit floor at Linfield College.
Bremer says the latch-hook work took thousands of hours and she valued it in the five-figure range.
It was the first in a five-rug project the Portland artist, an adjunct professor at Linfield, has in the works.
The curvy cutout was fashioned from monk's cloth, a heavy cotton, and hand-painted in ten colors on alpaca yarn.
A video camera and two pieces of student art also are missing.
McMinnville Police Captain Dennis Marks says officers will check with local second-hand stores. But if it's college kids, he says it's probably in somebody's room.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)