Kathleen Folden Explains Loveland Art Destruction On Website

The woman who destroyed a controversial piece of art at the Loveland Museum/Gallery last year is explaining her actions on a new website.

Kathleen Folden, a Montana trucker, pleaded guilty in November, 2010, to misdemeanor criminal mischief in connection with the destruction of a piece of art that depicted Jesus perfroming lewd sexual acts, among other controversial images.

According to reports, Folden drove from Montana, entered the museum and destroyed the work with a crowbar.

Folden's new website, givegodlove.com, provides her account of the Loveland Art Museum incident (embedded below). She described being "utterly livid" upon reading about certain aspects of the work.

Folden also provides a prediction of the coming rapture, and a thank you to Denver lawyer Cliff Stricklin, who established a fund that "kept [Folden] from being homeless under the bridges of Denver."

As a part of Folden's settlement, she was ordered to pay nearly $3,000 in restitution.

READ FOLDEN'S ACCOUNT:

Loveland_Museum_Art_Incident

Comments

[fitley]

09:14 PM on 04/18/2011

She solves her problems with a crowbar. MMM OK. I hope they took it away from her. Without her crowbar she may be forced to use her brain. Ouch that's gonna hurt.

[Rmtns]

02:07 PM on 04/01/2011

I guess I miss the point. The all powerful, all knowing and all everything sky fairy needs to have a trucker defend it/him? Delusion should be treated as a mental disease, not with the court system. Having this nut be treated in the state mental hospital until sane would be the safe and sane way to go.

[Lefty88]

03:10 PM on 03/31/2011

I'm guessing that people who believe Jesus is their soon-to-be husband can't really be expected to have a firm grasp on the finer points of art and free-thinking. The only thing that makes her different from some of the people I've met (who choose to violently protest at LGBT film festivals, art galleries, and abortion clinics) is the fact that her babbling justifications are in print here on HP. It's scary out there.

[SubgeniusMustHaveSlack]

01:29 PM on 03/30/2011

America really needs a mental health system again.

[Jericho the Red]

07:33 PM on 03/30/2011

here-here

[olddad]

12:56 PM on 03/30/2011

Art reflects life. Not all of us have the same delusions as this crazy person. She said that she spoke to "God" three time. I wonder how many other voices she hears??Maybe a little Prozac would help. If I went into the Westboro baptist church with a crow bar and destroyed something there I would be prosecuted for destruction of property.. This woman should not be under a bridge .She should be in a hospital where she can get some help for the "voices" in her head

[joeblow]

08:02 AM on 03/30/2011

"Hey, Giovanni, get this woman on the phone. She has all the answers!! And make it snappy!!"

Yours truly,

The Pope,
Bennie

[StillMadMatt]

06:19 AM on 03/30/2011

Wow. she is NUTS!!!

[thepoliticalcat]

01:25 AM on 03/30/2011

It's self-righteous eeejits like this that drive one to despair. She thinks nothing of foisting her legends of nomadic desert goatherders upon others, yet has no shame about destroying the work of others. If someone treated her fictional friends the same way, she'd be howling her pantalones off.

[Jericho the Red]

07:34 PM on 03/30/2011

perspective is a beautiful thing

[N133]

12:54 AM on 03/30/2011

Hahahahaha the lithograph explanation is hilarious. Imagine her surprise to find it was just paper.

Anyway, she sounds like a lonely, ignorant woman. There will always be people like her, and luckily this work was part of a print edition.

[chaapai]

05:06 PM on 03/29/2011

i am guessing it had a lot to do with in br33ding!

[thepoliticalcat]

01:26 AM on 03/30/2011

Look at that face. Can you seriously use the word "br33ding" in connection with that punim?

[chaapai]

02:04 AM on 03/30/2011

I don't know the yiddish word for Sasquatch, but I imagine her mom had a consensual e.r.o.t.i.c. encounter with one.

[KKSSHOE]

02:52 PM on 03/29/2011

Man originally started art to praise God, not to defame him. I do not support her actions, but I would say that when one uses art to depict negative imagery, one will elicit a negative response. Like it or not, its very simple to see its disrespectful to associate something people hold dear with urine or feces. That being said, the best thing to do it ignore it.

[chaapai]

05:08 PM on 03/29/2011

Who gets to decide what negative is? You? Me? the church? The state?

I am an atheist. I find representations of Jebus on the kross to be very offensive. and give me a break! "man originally "started art" to praise him"?

thats absolute non-cents!

[thepoliticalcat]

01:27 AM on 03/30/2011

Keep your godw@ckery to yourself. Humanity was making art long before some scammer figured out that s/he could rip off his/her fellows by pretending to be the spokescreature for an invisible entity that lives in the sky and never, ever appears to anyone but the delusional "faithful."

[KKSSHOE]

07:09 AM on 03/30/2011

Public forum and its not Godwackery as you say,to think something is offensive. High art started to praise Gods. way before Jesus or Yahweh. Its a weak excuse to say that negativity is in the eye of the beholder, because if that were an acceptable way to live, society could not function since all values would differ from person to person. I'm sure you probably support scat munching and child porn.

[filmex]

02:01 PM on 03/29/2011

Psychopath.

[LastStar]

01:37 PM on 03/29/2011

Yikes! From her website: "However, we are told Jesus doesn't want us to be ignorant. We are to always be ready and to WATCH! We are allowed to know the season. Learn this lesson from the fig tree. When its twigs get tender and leaves come out, you know that His return in near."

Sounds like Peter Sellers as Chance the gardner. Oh well, just another delusional republican voter....any takers for a bet?

[LastStar]

01:28 PM on 03/29/2011

"A truck driver from Montana"....now there's an individual that certainly has her life together and has things aaallll figured out.

She should have been ordered to go back and complete the 7th grade. Forget high school, that would be so far above this pathetic wretch's shriveled brain to even contemplate.

[Lefty88]

03:13 PM on 03/31/2011

I don't find fault in her being a truck driver from Montana; everyone's got to make ends meet. It's the complete lunatic thing that has be bothered.

[LastStar]

05:46 PM on 03/31/2011

Of course you're right. Her driving from Montana to Texas and taking a crow bar to something in a museum she finds offensive made me react and grab the first insult I could find.

I grew up in Montana and she is an embarrassment to all progressive Montanans.

[Mr Charlie]

01:09 PM on 03/29/2011

If Folden is an "ordinary, everyday person," then the world truly is a dangerous place. It is hard for me to understand how someone who perpetrated such a violent attack and showed absolutely no remorse received no more than restitution that was almost certainly paid by others and unsupervised probation.