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.*
* Note: In an abundance of caution, we are temporarily suspending our monthly meetings and public programming until further notice. Please sign up for our newsletter for advance notification when we resume them.
You’re invited to join our next monthly Zoom meeting of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles!
Register now on Eventbrite for your free tickets.
Saturday April 17, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/135798483921
Saturday May 15, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/135799067667
Saturday June 19, 2-3pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/135799432759
The Zoom links will be provided in your ticket once you have successfully registered for each event.
FUTURE TENSE - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Entry Deadline: June 15, 2021
Future Tense
What excites you about the future?
And how does the past influence your future?
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is coordinating a temporary installation of thematic artwork interventions made with fiber, fabric, and fiber art techniques as part of ULTRA!, a Torrance Public Art & Sculpture Project.. Our goal is to activate the iron fence at the Torrance High School with artwork interventions created through use of knitting, crocheting, sewing, felting, weaving, and other fiber construction techniques.
We selected the Torrance High School as the site for Future Tense for its rich history and roots extending well beyond its geographic community. We have identified the red iron fence as a key element that will allow the flexibility to adhere to any social distancing protocols that may be in place at time of installation. The individual artworks mounted to the exterior of the iron fence and will be visible from the street, eliminating the need for public gatherings.
We welcome fiber based artwork panels measuring 6 ft high by 6 ft wide that explore any of the following ideas.
- education as door to future success
- over 100 years of history as a school
- demographic and ethnic diversity
- athletic and scholastic achievements
- film and television productions
- historic/future land rights & usage
- personal and community desires
For additional research, we suggest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_High_School
https://www.torranceca.gov/our-city/about-torrance/history
https://www.tusd.org/schools/torrance-high-school
06/15/2021 Final Concept Submission Deadline
06/30/2021 Notifications emailed to artists on a rolling basis by this date
07/16-07/17/2021 Installation - Dates and times scheduled according to the needs of Torrance Art Museum
and Torrance High School, adhering to the social distancing protocols in place at the time.
07/17-09/11/2021 Exhibition Dates
07/17 & 08/21/2021 Yarn Bombing Los Angeles will facilitate two online community engagement sessions
during their monthly Zoom meetings. General public will be invited to create mini yarn
bombs to add to the installation or to display in their own yards
09/11/2021 De-installation day will be scheduled according to the needs of Torrance Art Museum and
Torrance High School, adhering to the social distancing protocols in place at the time.
Questions before you submit?
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles: yarnbombing18 [at} gmail.com
or
Darlyn Susan Yee: darlynsusanyee [at} gmail.com
Please click button below for Full Details & Submission Form...
Entry Deadline: June 15, 2021
Future Tense
What excites you about the future?
And how does the past influence your future?
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is coordinating a temporary installation of thematic artwork interventions made with fiber, fabric, and fiber art techniques as part of ULTRA!, a Torrance Public Art & Sculpture Project.. Our goal is to activate the iron fence at the Torrance High School with artwork interventions created through use of knitting, crocheting, sewing, felting, weaving, and other fiber construction techniques.
We selected the Torrance High School as the site for Future Tense for its rich history and roots extending well beyond its geographic community. We have identified the red iron fence as a key element that will allow the flexibility to adhere to any social distancing protocols that may be in place at time of installation. The individual artworks mounted to the exterior of the iron fence and will be visible from the street, eliminating the need for public gatherings.
We welcome fiber based artwork panels measuring 6 ft high by 6 ft wide that explore any of the following ideas.
- education as door to future success
- over 100 years of history as a school
- demographic and ethnic diversity
- athletic and scholastic achievements
- film and television productions
- historic/future land rights & usage
- personal and community desires
For additional research, we suggest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_High_School
https://www.torranceca.gov/our-city/about-torrance/history
https://www.tusd.org/schools/torrance-high-school
06/15/2021 Final Concept Submission Deadline
06/30/2021 Notifications emailed to artists on a rolling basis by this date
07/16-07/17/2021 Installation - Dates and times scheduled according to the needs of Torrance Art Museum
and Torrance High School, adhering to the social distancing protocols in place at the time.
07/17-09/11/2021 Exhibition Dates
07/17 & 08/21/2021 Yarn Bombing Los Angeles will facilitate two online community engagement sessions
during their monthly Zoom meetings. General public will be invited to create mini yarn
bombs to add to the installation or to display in their own yards
09/11/2021 De-installation day will be scheduled according to the needs of Torrance Art Museum and
Torrance High School, adhering to the social distancing protocols in place at the time.
Questions before you submit?
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles: yarnbombing18 [at} gmail.com
or
Darlyn Susan Yee: darlynsusanyee [at} gmail.com
Please click button below for Full Details & Submission Form...
HOW CAN I JOIN YARN BOMBING Los Angeles?
If you're in the Los Angeles area, you can drop by our monthly meetings noting our new meeting location and time.*
Also check our calendar to see if we have any upcoming events to attend or sign up for, or better yet organize an event that we can all participate in.* 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 yarnbombing18@gmail.com 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. |
