The Scarves for Warmth Project has set up it's residency space in the fiber arts studio of the Greensboro Cultural Arts Center. As you can see from the above photo, Room 327 is abloom in color, set up for making scarves for the housing insecure in Greensboro. The photo features Bobby Craddock who spoke about the program tonight during First Friday events. Bobby is the founder and creative genius behind the Scarves for Warmth Project. To Bobby's right is Tunde Peters, a work-study student from UNCG. Through this work-study opportunity, Tunde, a sociology major, is getting lots of ideas of how she can incorporate serving community (especially with art) into her future career. Whatever she does, she will do it well. Tunde's smile and positive attitude light up a room!
In addition to making scarves and adding art to the lives of those in need, The Scarves for Warmth Project helps the homeless in many other ways. For example, Bobby is committed to making the Greensboro community aware of how many homeless people are actually here. The "chiclet" bunting above to the right, a work in progress, will have a square for each of the 1,590 homeless people in Greensboro. In the center of the room, Bobby is assembling squares of denim, one for each of the 492 homeless children in Greensboro. Just seeing these squares reminds us that there are a lot of people who sleep on the street or other places that are very, very temporary.
If you want to help, visit Scarves for Warmth in the Cultural Arts Center. Consider volunteering, or, is you are too busy to volunteer, perhaps you can donate financially to the project- or convince Bobby to sell you one of the treasures his volunteers have made. Tunde is wearing one of the beautiful scarves. Even the purchase of a yard of fleece will go a long way to help people through this project.
Making an effort to uplift others is incredibly uplifting, especially when there is someone like Bobby to guide you along!
That is a good initiative.
Posted by: William Kendall | Saturday, March 07, 2020 at 04:14 PM