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# A Sculpture Divides Oakland & Berkeley, Knitters Protest
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-sculpture-divides-oakland-berkeley-knitters-protest/
- Published: 2010-06-10T20:41:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:03:13.000Z
- Description: Rogue knitters … yes, knitters … encamp along the Berkeley-Oakland border to protest a public sculpture, inspired by a Gertrude Stein quote, they believe insults Oakland.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: News, #image-position-hidden, Berkeley, Oakland, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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Knitters protest Berkeley's order that they remove a tea cozy they knitted over the T in the "Herethere" sculpture. (Photo: Brant Ward / SF Chronicle)

Don’t mess with the knitters of Oakland. The [*San Francisco Chronicle*](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/31/BA0V1DNBG2.DTL&ref=hyperallergic.com#ixzz0qU2xzfMg)reports:

> Rogue knitters encamped along the Berkeley-Oakland border with lawn chairs, tea cakes and knitting projects to protest the city of Berkeley’s order that they remove an 8-foot knitted tea cozy they sewed over the T in a public sculpture they believe insults Oakland.  
>  
> The sculpture depicts two 8-foot-tall steel words, “Here” and “There” \[and was installed by artists Steve Gillman and Katherine Keefer in 2005\]… the work is a riff on writer Gertrude Stein’s famous description of Oakland, her hometown, as having “no there there” … proud Oaklanders have dotted the city over the years with signs and flags proclaiming “There.”