Studio B Art Gallery Requests Selfies from the Community

Christi Weidner gives Yogi Bear-ra a smooch in 2008. Yogi currently lives at Bear Stadium, North Monroe Street. 

by Jane Stahl

Send us a selfie with your favorite Bear Fever sculpture! Studio B Art Gallery’s mission includes creating opportunities for members of the community to get to know one another better. One of the ways is knowing what you love best!

We will display your photos on a TV monitor in Studio B’s window throughout the summer during Studio B's bear-themed project "The Three Bears." It will be fun to see which bears are folks’ favorites along with the faces of our community loving on them!

Send your photos to studiob@boyertownpa.org. We’ll start our photo display when the project begins—June 27, 2025. The effort is part of a variety of bear-themed activities in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Bear Fever project. The summer project is funded by a grant from Berks County Community Foundation.

Twenty years ago, Bear Fever debuted over 30 bear sculptures at Boyertown High School’s annual Arts Expo. During the summer of 2005, those 30+ bear sculptures were installed throughout the community.

Today, the original sculptures are joined by dozens more—over 90 at last count—and more are “in the works.” Apparently, this community is still not even looking for a cure for Bear Fever.

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