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The Iowa State Fair's iconic butter cow is making room for some funny friends from the "Tonight Show" in her cooler. You can meet the butter versions of "Tonight Show ...
Iowa's iconic butter cow may well reach its zenith next year. After decades on display at the Iowa State Fair, a butter cow crafted by Cumming, Iowa, sculptor Sarah Pratt will make its debut at ...
Since 2006, Sarah Pratt of West Des Moines has wielded her sculpting tools and used butter to shape the butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. This year, the ode to the butter cow gets a companion ...
EIGHT NEWS. IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. THE IOWA STATE FAIR BEGINS ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW, AND ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR THINGS TO SEE IS THE BUTTER COW. THE SCULPTOR SARAH PRATT STOPPED BY DES MOINES ...
DES MOINES — Since its debut in 1911, the Iowa State Fair’s Butter Cow has involved about 600 pounds of pure cream butter, four hoofs and a couple handfuls of buttery fingers. In those 113 ...
The butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. After the 2025 state fair ends, the iconic butter cow will be sculpted at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Butter artist Sarah Pratt will travel to ...
shows the Illinois State Fair Butter Cow shaven down to reveal the framework under the butter. (The 2023 state fairs in both Illinois and Iowa concluded on Aug. 20.) “I feel deceived.
When representatives from the Smithsonian of American Art visited the Iowa State Fair butter cow artist Sarah Pratt, she was overjoyed to just show them a few of her sculpting tools. When she realized ...
shows the Illinois State Fair Butter Cow shaven down to reveal the framework under the butter. (The 2023 state fairs in both Illinois and Iowa concluded on Aug. 20.) “I feel deceived.