Yarn Bombing Los Angeles consists of a group of core members and an extended network of contributors. The core members, participants and level of involvement among collaborators have been fluid based on the project. Core members meet regularly, come up with project ideas and do what it takes to make the project happen. An extensive network of YBLA people we couldn't do without and collaborators contribute pieces to installations and are integral to the success of any YBLA project.
YBLA Core members
Head Poncho
Carol Zou is a current MFA Public Practice candidate at Otis College of Art and Design who is investigating ways in which individuals/collectives can repurpose public space to create shared spaces for creative action. She loves public transportation, Bikini Kill, and organizing large groups of people to do amazing things.
http://www.thisliferecorded.com Mr. Hyperbolic
Orphaned at an early age by a freak philatelist accident, David and his parents were forced to live in a house built above a vacant lot.There he began to learn to turn craft to art. After 3.7 decades of nearly total monastic study, David holds no degree from Absorbine Jr. College of the Arts. You can see some of David Orozco's hyperbolic crochet creations at davidorozco.com
Head Hooker
Julie Kornblum grew up with fabric and yarn. She earned a fashion design certificate at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, was a patternmaker in the garment industry and taught at Otis College of Art and Design. She earned a BA in Art at California State University Northridge. Julie exhibits nationally and has won numerous awards for her woven wall pieces and sculptural basketry. http://www.juliekornblum.com/
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Twisted Sister
Darlyn Susan Yee is a Los Angeles-based fiber artist. Her
knitted Body Cocoon Series has been exhibited at TAG Gallery, Orange County Center for
Contemporary Art, and Galéria Z in Bratislava,
Slovakia. Ms. Yee’s knotted artwork was published in 100
Artists of the West Coast
II. Her first book, Macramé Today: Contemporary Knotting
Projects. www.darlynsusanyee.com
Square Master
Judy Richards is a fiber artist, involved citizen and logistics goddess who leads a double life as a guerrilla knitter.
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YBLA Spin-tern
Maggie Teschler is an information studies and art history dual major at Syracuse university. She hopes to start her own yarnbombing group when she's back in school!
People we couldn't do without!
Janice Ogata
Janice Ogata is the founder of The Pasadena Crochet Meet Up and developed her love for fiber arts as a child, when she would admire her Great-Grandmother's Granny Square afghans. She is a freelance blogger for Red Heart Yarns and will be teaching at YARNOSPHERE in October 2014. http://janiceogata.wordpress.com/ 
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Frances Talbott-White
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Susie Nicholson
Susie has an MA in Anthropology. She volunteers at Cedars-Sinai, visiting patients who she crochet hearts for and she crochets Love Blankets for palliative care patients. She is an urban adventurer, Street Beast, and Mad Yarn Bomber 
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Glenid Rivera
Glenid is a librarian and a teacher who has loved yarn and fabric since she was a child. She learned crochet with a book, a hook and yarn. She's always looking for people who love to have a piece of yarn between their hands. 
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YBLA instigator
Arzu Arda Kosar
Arzu Arda Kosar's interest in borders, territories, intergroup relations and social psychology has led her to examine urban space, street art, collaborative art making and community building art practices. She’s the founder of YBLA as well as the International Survey of the Alternative Art Scene, MapConception, TransIstanbul, Public Art Istanbul, Los Angeles Gezi Platform. www.arzuardakosar.org
Arzu Arda Kosar's interest in borders, territories, intergroup relations and social psychology has led her to examine urban space, street art, collaborative art making and community building art practices. She’s the founder of YBLA as well as the International Survey of the Alternative Art Scene, MapConception, TransIstanbul, Public Art Istanbul, Los Angeles Gezi Platform. www.arzuardakosar.org
YBLA Collaborators
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Fig Knit-On
Ellen Bloom Beth Elliot Jacque Lene Engel Carmela Gomes Miriam Gonzalez Susana Gonzalez Heather Hoggan Amy Inouye Julie Keehner Arzu Arda Kosar Artemisia Kosar Lauri Mraz Racquel "Rocky" Ormsby-Olivarez David Orozco Noah B. Orozco Connie Rohman Joya Roy Ann Storc Susie Stroll Sherry Thompson Kacy Treadway Empathy Circle Katelyn Dorroh Arzu Arda Kosar Julie Kornblum Darlyn Susan Yee Yarnbombing 18th Street Dezryelle Arcieri Tristan Tyler Blodgett Jane Brucker Brian Chambers Christy Stout Chambers Thomas C. Chung Stephanie Clark Maureen Cox Jason Currie Laura Mae deLeon Darlene Dibona Deb Diehl Saeri Cho Dobson Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Jacque Lene Rogers Engel Nurcan Ensari Giovanna Forsyth Michelle Glass Margaret Hatfield Christy Hernandez Amy Caterina Hill Heather Hoggan Kate Jackson Amy Inouye Sule Kaya Nilgun Kayirsi Muge Kocarslan Julie Kornblum Arzu Arda Kosar Leora Lutz Mary Anne McTrowe Margaret Michaels Gracie Miller Lauri Mraz Burcu Musluoglu Rosalyn Myles Racquel Ormsby-Olivares Megan O’Neill David Orozco Chloe Palmer Joanna Pawlik Jacob Riggle Connie Rohman Isabelle Roybal Hasmik Seropyan Cindy Short Elena Siff Jason Sober Ann Storc Laura Teasley Terrilynn Kacy Treadway Guinevere Turner Sibel Ucmakli Kristy Walker Jillian Wallis Darlyn Susan Yee Lori Zimmerman |
Have Yarn Will Travel
Dezryelle Arcieri Brian & Christina Chambers Beth Elliott Jacque Lene Rogers Engel Amy Katerina Hill Amy Inouye Julie Kornblum Laura De Leon Darlene Dibona Katelyn Dorroh Arzu Arda Kosar Racquel “Rocky” Ormsby-Olivares Kacy Treadway Darlyn Susan Yee Forest, For the Trees Edith Abeyta Leslie Brown Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliott Jacque Lene Engel Carmela Gomes Heather Hoggan Amy Caterina Hill Lisa Jong Julie Kornblum Arzu Arda Kosar Justine Leong Tyler Mitzner Lauri Mraz Racquel “Rocky” Ormsby Davi Orozco Adrianna Rianna Ann Storc Kacy Treadway Jane Wang Jessica Wards Tracy Williams Darlyn Susan Yee Carol Zou Art Soup NELA Katelyn Dorroh Heather Hoggan Arzu Arda Kosar Lauri Mraz David Orozco Darlyn Susan Yee Let’s Patch It! by Associazione Culturale Animammersa, L’Aquila, Italy
Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Heather Hoggan Arzu Arda Kosar Lauri Mraz David Orozco Kacy Treadway Darlyn Susan Yee Carol Zou Wish I Were Here
Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Heather Hoggan Arzu Arda Kosar Stacie Jeffirs Lauri Mraz David Orozco Connie Rohman Kacy Treadway Yarn Revolt Darlyn Susan Yee Carol Zou Mini Makers Faire Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Arzu Arda Kosar David Orozco Carol Zou |
LACMA Muse Artwalk
Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Arzu Arda Kosar Heather Hoggan David Orozco Darlyn Susan Yee Carol Zou Giving Tree California Poppy Collective Katelyn Dorroh Arzu Arda Kosar David Orozco Carol Zou Wishing Tree at Angels Gate Katelyn Dorroh Beth Elliot Heather Hoggan Arzu Arda Kosar David Orozco Carol Zou Urban Letters Katelyn Dorroh Arzu Arda Kosar David Orozco Connie Rohman Kelli Weaver Darlyn Susan Yee Carol Zou CAFAM Granny Squared
Project Facilitators: Arzu Arda Kosar, David Orozco, Judy Richards, Darlyn Susan Yee, Carol Zou Full list of project collaborators |
