A handcrafted, feminine sideof the urban art of graffiti

The bronze statue of Rocky near the Philadelphia Museum of Art irked Jessie Hemmons. She found the statue too big, too macho and too touristy, so recently Ms. Hemmons, a 24-year-old artist, bombed him. With pinkish yarn.

Using a ladder and a needle, Ms. Hemmons stitched a fuchsia-colored hooded vest on the fictional boxer with the words "Go See the Art" emblazoned across the front, to prod tourists to visit the museum that so many skip after taking their photo with the statue.

She calls the act of artistic vandalism "yarn bombing," adapting a term for plastering an area with graffiti tags.