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.
All are welcome at YBLA's public events which are listed on our Calendar page.
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.
All are welcome at YBLA's public events which are listed on our Calendar page.
Yarn bombing los angeles is at it again!!
Join Us to Cover the Autry's Plaza | Entries Due September 12, 2016 deadline extended!
CALIFORNIA YARNSCAPES
Theme: What Is a California Landscape to You?
The creative community of fiber artists, knitters, crotcheters, and groups are invited to consider the question, “What is a California landscape to you?” and to create individual landscapes to be joined together for the larger yarn bomb exhibition.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is facilitating this community participation project to encircle the upper portion of the Autry Museum Plaza Rotunda with knit and crochet California landscape in yarn: California Yarnscape.
What is Yarn Bombing? From Wikipedia . . .
Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) 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.
The Autry Museum of the American West brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future.
See this application packet (PDF) for details and submission requirements.
Submission deadline: September 12, 2016 deadline extended!
Material Notes
• Knit and crochet fabrics such as granny squares or repurposed sweaters.
• Fiber content should be acrylic or other highly durable, less costly, light-fast fiber.
• This will be an outdoor exhibition on display March 14–June 26, 2017. Yarnbomb pieces will be faded and dirty when the installation is over.
Sketches can be as simple as a black and white line drawing, but a colored image is preferred.
Please include a brief written description (about 250 words):
• An explanation of your landscape and what inspired it.
• The knit, crochet, of fiber technique you will employ for your final piece, if selected.
• Which size you wish to make if selected.
• Your name and full contact information, including a website if you have one.
• Groups: contact information for primary contact, and names of your team members who will
contribute to the finished piece, if known at this time.
Submissions Must Include:
• A sketch of your California Yarnscape
• Completed Artist Information Form
• Completed Release Form
Please do not send disks, CDs, or DVDs.
Send to: Julie Kornblum
E-mail: julie@juliekornblum.com
Mail: 24043 Bessemer St., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Timeline
Postmark Deadline for Entry: September 12, 2016
Notification of Selected California Yarnscape: By September 30, 2016
September 2016–February 2017: YBLA holds regular monthly workshops on the third Saturday, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles, 5814 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. (other locations TBA). All are welcome.
February 3, 2017: Postmark deadline for mailing finished landscape pieces to Julie Kornblum.
February 18, 2017: Deadline for hand-delivering finished pieces at last CAFAM workshop for this project.
February 18–March 12, 2017: Assembly of individual pieces to create eight complete sections, final fabrication, and attaching hanging apparatus to prepare for installation.
Monday, March 13, 2017: Installation
Community Workshops
Collaborating with the Autry, YBLA will hold post-installation public drop-in workshops at the museum. These workshops will allow participants to create knit or crochet pieces and add to the installation.
Workshop dates and times to be announced.
De-installation: Monday, June 26, 2017
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles Core Members:
Julie Kornblum, David Orozco, Judy Richards, and Darlyn Susan Yee
CALIFORNIA YARNSCAPES
Theme: What Is a California Landscape to You?
The creative community of fiber artists, knitters, crotcheters, and groups are invited to consider the question, “What is a California landscape to you?” and to create individual landscapes to be joined together for the larger yarn bomb exhibition.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is facilitating this community participation project to encircle the upper portion of the Autry Museum Plaza Rotunda with knit and crochet California landscape in yarn: California Yarnscape.
What is Yarn Bombing? From Wikipedia . . .
Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) 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.
The Autry Museum of the American West brings together the stories of all peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inspire our shared future.
See this application packet (PDF) for details and submission requirements.
Submission deadline: September 12, 2016 deadline extended!
Material Notes
• Knit and crochet fabrics such as granny squares or repurposed sweaters.
• Fiber content should be acrylic or other highly durable, less costly, light-fast fiber.
• This will be an outdoor exhibition on display March 14–June 26, 2017. Yarnbomb pieces will be faded and dirty when the installation is over.
Sketches can be as simple as a black and white line drawing, but a colored image is preferred.
Please include a brief written description (about 250 words):
• An explanation of your landscape and what inspired it.
• The knit, crochet, of fiber technique you will employ for your final piece, if selected.
• Which size you wish to make if selected.
• Your name and full contact information, including a website if you have one.
• Groups: contact information for primary contact, and names of your team members who will
contribute to the finished piece, if known at this time.
Submissions Must Include:
• A sketch of your California Yarnscape
• Completed Artist Information Form
• Completed Release Form
Please do not send disks, CDs, or DVDs.
Send to: Julie Kornblum
E-mail: julie@juliekornblum.com
Mail: 24043 Bessemer St., Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Timeline
Postmark Deadline for Entry: September 12, 2016
Notification of Selected California Yarnscape: By September 30, 2016
September 2016–February 2017: YBLA holds regular monthly workshops on the third Saturday, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), Los Angeles, 5814 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. (other locations TBA). All are welcome.
February 3, 2017: Postmark deadline for mailing finished landscape pieces to Julie Kornblum.
February 18, 2017: Deadline for hand-delivering finished pieces at last CAFAM workshop for this project.
February 18–March 12, 2017: Assembly of individual pieces to create eight complete sections, final fabrication, and attaching hanging apparatus to prepare for installation.
Monday, March 13, 2017: Installation
Community Workshops
Collaborating with the Autry, YBLA will hold post-installation public drop-in workshops at the museum. These workshops will allow participants to create knit or crochet pieces and add to the installation.
Workshop dates and times to be announced.
De-installation: Monday, June 26, 2017
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles Core Members:
Julie Kornblum, David Orozco, Judy Richards, and Darlyn Susan Yee
