Dan Shields plays with yarn. That’s his real job. And in reality, that means he does a lot more than just play with yarn. “I have to be everything,” Shields said. “I’m a little bit of an engineer, an artist — I wear many hats.” On Friday, he was in Covington, climbing up ladders to […]
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Meet the Covington artist who brought yarn bombing to BLINK Cincinnati
If you visited BLINK Cincinnati last year and went to Washington Park, you probably saw people under a chaos of yarn. Covington Artist Dan Shields was the brains behind the “String Theory for Dummies” installation, an interactive yarn display at the lights and art festival. The display was an art technique that Shields specializes in […]

