Real cats now part of art installation at Worcester Art Museum

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The Worcester Art Museum welcomed its newest "purrformers" over the weekend and on Wednesday the public will be invited in to meet them, too.

Four cats now call the art museum home thanks to a Cats-in-Residence art installation which brings in cats up for adoption to interact with people inside a "social sculpture."

The cats are the first of many expected to live in the museum from Wednesday through September 4 while they await adoption.

"It's meditative, playful, but with the serious agenda of finding homes for these rescue cats," said Rhonda Lieberman, the artists behind the Cats-in-Residence program.

Liberman has set up this installation at three other museums around the country and has seen high rates of adoptions thanks to the program.

Allie Teller from the Worcester Animal Rescue League, where the cats are coming from, said she's hoping the program will lead to the adoption of as many as 50 cats.

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