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
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
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. |
People we couldn't do without!
Katelyn Dorroh 
Beth Elliott 
Heather Hoggan
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Amy Inouye 
Lauri Mraz 
Janice Ogata
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Rocky O
Penny Richards 
Glenid Rivera
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Connie Rohman
Frances Talbott-White
Kacy Treadway
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PAST YBLA Core members
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.
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/
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.
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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
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
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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 |