San Diego, Calif.-based Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. has announced that Sarah Pratt has joined the Plaza team in the position of regional manager in the company's Denver Branch. She will be responsible ...

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 Washington ...

Butter sculptor Sarah Pratt and her daughter, Grace, put the finishing touches on this year’s Butter Cow on Aug. 4 at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Pratt began working on this year’s cow ...

Especially working in this building. You, it's like there's windows all the way around and you see downtown Des Moines from every vantage point. So I'm sitting, I'm in the cooler, bundled up in ...

Crafting one of her favorite animals out of butter does not feel like a job to Sarah Pratt, the official butter sculptor of the Kansas State Fair. Every second year, the state fair has the sculptor ...

When twins Hannah and Grace Pratt moved out of their tiny dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa and into their “adult” apartment, the mini-fridge they no longer needed gave their mother, Sarah, ...

Illinois State Fair officials teamed up with Gov. JB Pritzker Wednesday to unveil this year's official butter cow sculpture created by Sarah Pratt. The butter cow, one of the most beloved traditions ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — It's a spot everyone comes back to, year after year, at the Iowa State Fair. The famous butter cow is a must-see when coming to the Iowa State Fair, and it takes a lot of work for ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Sarah Pratt might lack the skills to handle live cattle, but she’s proven herself a master when it comes to creating a life-size cow made from butter. The sculptor of the butter ...

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 ...

Sarah Pratt got into butter sculpting by accident. In 1991, she started working with Norma "Duffy" Lyon in Iowa helping out on her dairy farm. Pratt wanted to work with the dairy cows, but soon ...

DES MOINES - The celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Iowa State Fair Butter Cow is bittersweet for Sarah Pratt. This is Pratt's sixth year sculpting the butter cow, and she had hoped to ...