Puttin' on the Dog April 1st!

A little hide-and-seek at the Garden for April Fools-A-Palooza

Starting back in 2016 with the opening of Alan Vopat’s DaDa Muse’um, Lucas artists have celebrated this April 1st day of maybe-maybe-not for 9 years now. This year, in honor of a new (it’s a secret! OK, not-so-secret as it’s installed) monumental piece downtown, we’ve adopted the theme of ‘Puttin’ on the Dog’, a Southern expression for gussying up for visitors.

At the Garden, there are two prominent dog figures to find on April 1st, with the following clues from Dinsmoor’s Cabin Home book:

Here are Abel’s wife and shepherd dog, just discovered him dead. Moses never said a word about them, but the Bible tells about shepherds having shepherd dogs. Abel was a shepherd and must have had a shepherd dog. They say a shepherd dog is the offshoot of a coyote, so I made as near a coyote as I could.

And the second dog can be found in the Social Darwinism section:

The dog is after the fox, fox after the bird, bird has its mouth open after a little worm eating a leaf. This shows how one animal is after another down to the leaf.

No foolin’!

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