Snow Leopards as you’ve never seen them before

It’s Snow Leopard art but not as you’re used to it…

Ruth Marshall’s Ivy the Snow Leopard (2006) is a leopard hide, accurate in detail and size which is knitted out of colored yarn and stretched on a bamboo frame.

Ruth’s aim behind the piece is to have people consider faux pelts as a desirable alternative to the harvesting of skins belonging to endangered species. A highly noble aim, given how popular the Snow Leopard fur is.

You can see Ivy at the Knitted, Knotted, Netted exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton until January 24.