Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is a fiber arts community that engages thousands of people online, worldwide, and locally in the Los Angeles area. YBLA currently collaborates with city governments, museums, alternative art spaces, and public spaces to create thought-provoking, community-generated public art installations.
YBLA's work blends and reinterprets different artistic genres of street art, public art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. YBLA's mission is to create a form of community-generated, site-specific public art that is tactile and accessible, while at the same time initiating dialogue about cross-generation connections and craft history.
YBLA's work blends and reinterprets different artistic genres of street art, public art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. YBLA's mission is to create a form of community-generated, site-specific public art that is tactile and accessible, while at the same time initiating dialogue about cross-generation connections and craft history.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is creating a yarn bomb installation at The Autry Museum of the American West on January 23, 2025 6-9pm.
https://theautry.org/events/family-activities/autry-after-hours-simple-pleasures-yarn-bombing
Two Ways to Get Involved!
Call for Knitted and Crocheted Elements
We're in search of small UFOs (Un Finished Objects), leftover granny squares, that scarf you never liked, the sock or glove that just wasn't quite right, the sweater that has seen slightly better days. Items can be any color or colorway but MUST be made of 100% synthetic fibers (acrylic, nylon, polyester).
Please record the elements you wish to contribute on the following form...
https://forms.gle/i5xDfC1yTEZ17eHa9
Then mail the elements to arrive by 1/15/25 to:
YBLA c/o Darlyn Susan Yee
1455 W Redondo Beach Blvd, Ste 2510
Gardena, CA 90247-6528
Call for Stitchers
We are compiling a list of 10 volunteer stitchers based in the Los Angeles area to help us with the stitching assembly of the yarn bomb installation on January 23, 2025 from 6-9pm. As one of the 10 YBLA volunteer helpers, you'll receive free admission to the Autry and the event.
Please sign up here...
https://forms.gle/zsKrd4PtnXXZS72e9
https://theautry.org/events/family-activities/autry-after-hours-simple-pleasures-yarn-bombing
Two Ways to Get Involved!
Call for Knitted and Crocheted Elements
We're in search of small UFOs (Un Finished Objects), leftover granny squares, that scarf you never liked, the sock or glove that just wasn't quite right, the sweater that has seen slightly better days. Items can be any color or colorway but MUST be made of 100% synthetic fibers (acrylic, nylon, polyester).
Please record the elements you wish to contribute on the following form...
https://forms.gle/i5xDfC1yTEZ17eHa9
Then mail the elements to arrive by 1/15/25 to:
YBLA c/o Darlyn Susan Yee
1455 W Redondo Beach Blvd, Ste 2510
Gardena, CA 90247-6528
Call for Stitchers
We are compiling a list of 10 volunteer stitchers based in the Los Angeles area to help us with the stitching assembly of the yarn bomb installation on January 23, 2025 from 6-9pm. As one of the 10 YBLA volunteer helpers, you'll receive free admission to the Autry and the event.
Please sign up here...
https://forms.gle/zsKrd4PtnXXZS72e9
HOW CAN I JOIN YARN BOMBING Los Angeles?
Anyone can join Yarn Bombing Los Angeles!
UPCOMING MEETINGS IN 2024-2025: Our 2024 meetings will be held on the 3rd Saturday every month on Zoom. Register for free on Eventbrite and we'll send you the Zoom details in your ticket. 2024 Dec 21, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/792278284677 2025 Jan 18, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110849573979 Feb 15, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110869664069 Mar 15, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110872031149 Apr 19, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110876845549 May 17, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110881098269 What if I can't knit or crochet? While you can probably learn to knit or crochet during our meetings, some of us don't actually knit or crochet at all! Many yarn bombers use recycled sweaters and other found materials that they collage together. WHAT HAPPENS IN YBLA MEETINGS?
Our monthly meetings are an occasion to gather, work together, exchange ideas, tips, materials, learn new techniques, see old friends, meet new people, come up with new projects etc. While most people bring along a project to work on, some people just show up to network and be inspired.
Snapshots of our previous monthly meetings can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttactSiSz8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwueVd0ljlw. For more information feel free to contact [email protected] or visit our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/yarnbombingla/ |
WHAT IS YBLA?
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a group knitters, crocheters and fiber artists who have been collaborating since 2010. YBLA stages public installations and performances to help expand the definition of public art to embrace street art, including self-initiated, ephemeral urban interventions utilizing fiber material. Collaborative art making, community building, public outreach, blurring boundaries between contemporary art practices, graffiti and craft are integral components to YBLA's practice. The group organically grew out of a participatory yarn bombing event organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective in Los Angeles and became an entity of its own during the six month process of putting together Yarn Bombing 18th Street, an interlacement of site specific installations featuring 65 local and international knit graffiti artists. YBLA projects range from the day long urban intervention outside MOCA's seminal Art in the Streets show to conducting knit graffiti workshops for LAUSD teachers, students and their parents. For a brief video featuring recent YBLA projects please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofiidpN_qA WHAT IS YARN BOMBING?
Yarn bombing is a relatively recent form of street art that employs colorful displays of knits or crochet and other fiber material instead of paint in public space.
Some engage in yarn bombing as a fun and creative way to use up left over yarn, others consider it an urban intervention to personalize otherwise cold and impersonal spaces or to make socio- political statements. Humor is often a major component of yarn bombing, which by its nature embodies contradictory idiosyncrasies within itself. In its seemingly odd juxtaposition of knitting and graffiti, often associated with opposing concepts such as female, granny, indoors, domestic, wholesome and soft vs. male, enfant terrible, outdoors, public, underground and edgy, the practice of yarn bombing redefines both genres. Yarn bombing transforms knitting from a domestic endeavor to public art, recontextualizing both knitting and graffiti, both of which are marginalized creative endeavors that fall outside “high art.” Like all public art, be it sanctioned commissions or self-initiated, unauthorized formats, yarn bombing imposes a particular aesthetic onto an environment that may be appreciated by some, but may not appeal to everyone. Yet, yarn bombing is necessarily ephemeral due to its use of materials and perhaps the most environmentally friendly graffiti because it can easily be removed with a pair of scissors and no damage left behind. |