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Yarn Bombing Los Angeles consists of a group of core members and a massive 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. Our 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

Darlyn Susan Yee

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Darlyn Susan Yee
is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice weaves together traditional and unexpected materials into complex designs that engage a dialogue between art, design and craft. Her meticulous, labor-intensive processes result in fiber-based sculptures and site-specific installations. She engages a dialogue that crosses cultural understandings of identity, gender and place. Complex but with a sense of whimsy, Darlyn's explorations of presence and containment encompass large installations to small handheld vessels.
 
Darlyn’s artwork has been shown internationally in museums and galleries, and has garnered numerous awards. She was included in 100 Artists of the West Coast II by Schiffer Books, the publisher of her book Macramé Today: Contemporary Knotting Projects. Her work is featured in numerous private and public collections.
 
Darlyn has been a core member of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and worked on numerous YBLA projects since 2011. She contributed to CAFAM: Granny Squared, the project to cover the façade of the Craft And Folk Art Museum with crocheted granny squares which brought together over 500 contributors from 27 countries and 50 states. Since then she has coordinated projects and exhibitions for YBLA including: One Colorado in Pasadena; Loops and Groups: Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, the First 5 Years at the Brand Library; A Piece Of Me, Accept, Embrace, Resolve and Technology & Ethics at Loyola Marymount University; Alone Together, A Socially Distant Public Art Project; Future Tense at Torrance High School in conjunction with Torrance Art Museum’s Ultra!. www.darlynsusanyee.com

David Orozco

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David Orozco 
​is a native of Los Angeles, an artist who uses yarn as his medium and curiosity as his muse.
 
With crochet, taught to him by his grandmother when he was 8, he uses this skill in craft to create not only fabric, but sculpture. Using string, fishing line, or rope, fabric and paper, used and new, he creates figures, patterns, clothing and more.
 
An active contributor to the Institute for Figuring's Crocheted Coral Reef project, David's fiber work based on mathematical ideas has been seen in museums and galleries from New York to Tokyo, from London to Sydney.
 
As an original core member of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, his mischief has been seen throughout the streets of Los Angeles, at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, and other museums and galleries in town. His origami work can also be seen in the 2014 movie “Big Sky.”
 
He was an Artist in Residence at Self Help Graphics in 2013. He sits on the board of the Arroyo Arts Collective, one of the oldest such organizations in Los Angeles.
 
David enjoys making objects to be held, to be worn, full of texture and life. He has been privileged to teach many people the skill of creating cloth, and the techniques of sculpting with fiber. ​
http://davidorozco.com


People we couldn't do without!

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Katelyn Dorroh  

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Beth Elliott


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Heather Hoggan

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Amy Inouye 

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​Lauri Mraz

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Janice Ogata

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Rocky O

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​Penny Richards
    

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Glenid Rivera

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Connie Rohman

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Frances Talbott-White

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Kacy Treadway

PAST YBLA Core members

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Judy Richards is currently retired and living her dream of being a full time artist after teaching art for thirty-five years on the high school level. She holds a BS degree and an MAT degree in education. For 10 years, she worked as an artist with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles on the following projects: Forest For the Trees - Tom Bradley International Terminal and LAX, California Yarnscapes - Autry Museum, Retrospective- Brand Library, Yarn-o-polis - Grand Central Market, Re-Entry - Alex Theatre, Surroundings - Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center, Community Threads - Downtown Women’s Center, Hammer Museum Family Day, Yurt - Dwell, One Colorado Pasadena, Edward Sharpe Big Top, CAFAM: Granny Squared - Craft and Folk Art Museum, and Urban Letters.

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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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Carol Zou is a recent MFA Public Practice graduate of 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

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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

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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!


YBLA Collaborators

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
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