As we march into March, most of us are peeling off our sweaters, but at the Blanton Museum of Art, the trees are putting them on. Yes, that’s what I said: trees. Starting Friday, the 99 cedar elms that populate the museum’s Faulkner Plaza will have hand-knit sleeves placed over their trunks. The project, A Knitted Wonderland, comes from the yarn bombers of Knitta Please, who have enlisted more than 140 local artists to craft and install the knitted or crocheted coverings. The sleeves go on the day before Explore UT, the University of Texas’ annual monster open house, and on Saturday at 1pm you can catch Knitta Please founder Magda Sayeg talk about the project in the Blanton Auditorium. The sleeves will stay on through March 18, though, so you’ll have more time to check them out (and when you do, why not stop in for the Blanton’s exhibition “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires”?). For more information, visit www.blantonmuseum.org.

This article appears in March 4 • 2011.

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