Members of Linn County Arts Guild are used to hiding little pieces of art around town, but this year they made sure to participate in World Art Drop Day on Tuesday, Sept. 5, dropping pieces not only in Lebanon and Sweet Home, but even as far away as Salem.
World Art Drop Day is a day for artists of all media to place original works of art in a community to be found by passersby. When he started the event in 2018, founder Jake Parker said, “We need to feel a little more connection to each other and there’s nothing like the bond two random strangers can make through the act of creating and giving.”
Annette Reisbick dropped a couple of her knitted pieces in Sweet Home. A scarf knitted to look like a school bus was left at Sweet Home’s school district transportation parking lot. It was a piece she liked a lot, she said, because she used to be a school bus driver herself. A tag attached to the piece asks the finder to take a picture and share it with the Linn County Arts Guild.