An art professor’s effort to fight racism with knitting is supported with a faculty research grant at Pennsylvania State University in a taxpayer-funded lab.
However, the public university did not answer questions about who is paying for the grant.
Professor Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead, (pictured) director of Penn State’s visual arts school, contracted the on-campus facility known as OriginLabs to build “large-scale” looms for his knitting project, The College Fix learned.
It involves him knitting a “house-sized structure” made of “weather-resistant” materials while listening to “anti-racism literature.”