Forest For The Trees by Yarn Bombing Los Angeles in
Roots of Cool: A Celebration of Trees and Shade in a Warming World
Boddy House Library at Descanso Gardens
Runs from July 12–October 12, 10am–4pm daily at Descanso Gardens and is included in the price of admission or membership.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is honored to have been invited by curators Edith and Jolly de Guzman to present our Forest For The Trees fiber installation in the Boddy House Library at Descanso Gardens as part of their overarching exhibition. YBLA Core Members, David Orozco and Darlyn Susan Yee have co-curated this installation, our largest fiber Forest to date!
About Forest For The Trees:
Old-growth forests exhibit distinctive ecological features and are often home to rare, threatened, and endangered species of plants and animals, making them ecologically significant. Unfortunately, many of our old-growth forest stands are threatened by habitat destruction at the invasive hands of man. This fiber-based installation hopes to address the wonders and perils of the forest by creating an environment that is at once unique and fantastic, dangerous and bizarre, and by acknowledging that one day, the built environment may be all that’s left.
In 2011, the Arroyo Arts Collective in Northeast Los Angeles, initiated the Forest, For the Trees project, while its co-producer Yarn Bombing Los Angeles invited artists from all over the world to contribute work. Artists used standard, recycled, and unusual materials to create all of the elements you might see in a forest. From its debut at Avenue 50 Studio the Forest has evolved into installations at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Skirball Cultural Center, Manhattan Beach Creative Art Center, Brand Library, and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
We’re a group of fiber artists collaborating since 2010 to stage public installations to expand the definition of public art, blending street art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. The eclectic group encompasses all ages, genders and backgrounds. YBLA encourages professional artists and novice crafters to use materials ranging from yarn to garbage bags using traditional fiber techniques to create collaborative installations. The pieces may be whimsical, humorous, conceptual or political. The common thread is the creation of work that pushes the knit/crochet envelope, and our presentation of the work in the public realm.
Contributing Artists:
Edith Abeyta, Alyssa Arney, Mercy Azarcon, Amy Bauer, Alexis Bell, Tegan Bellamy, Luisa Bottari, Leslie Brown, Burbank’s Fiber Fiends, Alexandra Busby, Diane Bush, Linda Cahoon, Jill Cary, Janice Carter, Mara Cheng, Jean Choate, Jen Chow, Kathryn Cobbin, Irene Cochran, Leighann Corbin, Bernice "Bee" Colman, Yolanda Diaz, Sue Dietel, Katelyn Dorroh, Erica Durante, Beth Elliott, Hui-Mei Ellis, Jacque Lene Engel, Chantal Eyong, Jennifer Fahy, James Jude Ferrera, Esther Finney, Liz Flynn, Amy Frey, The Fuzzy Panda, Glendale’s Jewel City Knitters, Carmela Gomes, Becky Goodman, Grace, Linda Greco, Judy Gregory, Connie Griffin, Andy Hadwick, Jennifer Hall, Julia Hartley, Margaret Hatfield, Ruth Head, Laura Henley, Yolanda Hernandez, Amy Caterina Hill, Heather Hoggan, Lynne Hopper, Jeanette Johannes, Kristen Johannsen, Lisa Jong, Sarah Jung, Patty Kersting, Julie Kornblum, Arzu Arda Kosar, Jessica Lam, Diane Larsen, Bisi Lawal, Debi Leibovitz, Linda Leonard, Justine Leong, Sheilah Levin, Stella Ligutom, Terri Lonski, Sylvia Lyons, Kristie Mach, Geeta Mande, Charlotte Marshall, Karen Semenoff McCuaig, Silvia Mendoza, Tyler Mitzner, Theresa Knopf Morgan, Allie Moskowitz, Lauri Mraz, Alice Neal, Nancy Nelson, Janice Ogata, Pat Olson, Diane Olson-Baskin, Gilda Ongkeko, Racquel “Rocky” Ormsby, David Orozco, Olga O’Shea, Niccole V. Osborn, Pasadena’s Crochet Meet Up, Lori Perea, Domenica Piumetti, Rita Poon, Nancy Pyne-Hapke, Irene Rezaie, Adrianna Rianna, Judy Richards, Penny Richards, Glenid Rivera, Dolores Robles, Connie Rohman, Marsha Rose, Mary Rosales, Joan Sauve, Erin Shea, Jocelyn Sia, Ginna Siman, Rachel Sirr, Andrea Smith, Kathleen Smith, Rita Smith, Jennifer Snoeyink, Beth Sterner, Ann Storc, Kazuko Tajima,Cameron Taylor-Brown, Jerene Thomson, Threadwinners, Kacy Treadway, Christina Tucker, Cristina Tueler, Evelyn Van Orden, Bonnie Vilchez, Nicole Wade, Jane Wang, Jessica Wards, Kayla Waxman, Fumiko Wellington, Natalie Welts, Nicholas Welts, West Flamingo Yarn Stormers, Wetherby, Maryam Will, Tracy Williams, Stefa Witt, Darlyn Susan Yee, Mariam Yonsset, Maria Zapata, Carol Zou.
Roots of Cool and its programs are generously supported, in part, by Perenchio Foundation; Accelerate Resilience LA, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; and TreePeople.
Artworks: Forest For The Trees © Yarn Bombing Los Angeles
Exhibition Resources and Press Coverage:
Shoshana Ben-Horin's music for Roots Of Cool
Listening Station by Nature of Cities
Redlining touchscreen
Out and About opening reception video
LA Times
Planetizen
NBC Los Angeles
A&R
AOL
Outlook
Pasadena Now
Local News Pasadena
Beverly Press
UCLA Luskin
UCLA Luskin Celebration of Cool
PBS SoCal features Edith de Guzman
07/12-10/12, 2025
Roots of Cool: A Celebration of Trees and Shade in a Warming World
Boddy House Library at Descanso Gardens
Runs from July 12–October 12, 10am–4pm daily at Descanso Gardens and is included in the price of admission or membership.
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is honored to have been invited by curators Edith and Jolly de Guzman to present our Forest For The Trees fiber installation in the Boddy House Library at Descanso Gardens as part of their overarching exhibition. YBLA Core Members, David Orozco and Darlyn Susan Yee have co-curated this installation, our largest fiber Forest to date!
About Forest For The Trees:
Old-growth forests exhibit distinctive ecological features and are often home to rare, threatened, and endangered species of plants and animals, making them ecologically significant. Unfortunately, many of our old-growth forest stands are threatened by habitat destruction at the invasive hands of man. This fiber-based installation hopes to address the wonders and perils of the forest by creating an environment that is at once unique and fantastic, dangerous and bizarre, and by acknowledging that one day, the built environment may be all that’s left.
In 2011, the Arroyo Arts Collective in Northeast Los Angeles, initiated the Forest, For the Trees project, while its co-producer Yarn Bombing Los Angeles invited artists from all over the world to contribute work. Artists used standard, recycled, and unusual materials to create all of the elements you might see in a forest. From its debut at Avenue 50 Studio the Forest has evolved into installations at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Skirball Cultural Center, Manhattan Beach Creative Art Center, Brand Library, and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
We’re a group of fiber artists collaborating since 2010 to stage public installations to expand the definition of public art, blending street art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. The eclectic group encompasses all ages, genders and backgrounds. YBLA encourages professional artists and novice crafters to use materials ranging from yarn to garbage bags using traditional fiber techniques to create collaborative installations. The pieces may be whimsical, humorous, conceptual or political. The common thread is the creation of work that pushes the knit/crochet envelope, and our presentation of the work in the public realm.
Contributing Artists:
Edith Abeyta, Alyssa Arney, Mercy Azarcon, Amy Bauer, Alexis Bell, Tegan Bellamy, Luisa Bottari, Leslie Brown, Burbank’s Fiber Fiends, Alexandra Busby, Diane Bush, Linda Cahoon, Jill Cary, Janice Carter, Mara Cheng, Jean Choate, Jen Chow, Kathryn Cobbin, Irene Cochran, Leighann Corbin, Bernice "Bee" Colman, Yolanda Diaz, Sue Dietel, Katelyn Dorroh, Erica Durante, Beth Elliott, Hui-Mei Ellis, Jacque Lene Engel, Chantal Eyong, Jennifer Fahy, James Jude Ferrera, Esther Finney, Liz Flynn, Amy Frey, The Fuzzy Panda, Glendale’s Jewel City Knitters, Carmela Gomes, Becky Goodman, Grace, Linda Greco, Judy Gregory, Connie Griffin, Andy Hadwick, Jennifer Hall, Julia Hartley, Margaret Hatfield, Ruth Head, Laura Henley, Yolanda Hernandez, Amy Caterina Hill, Heather Hoggan, Lynne Hopper, Jeanette Johannes, Kristen Johannsen, Lisa Jong, Sarah Jung, Patty Kersting, Julie Kornblum, Arzu Arda Kosar, Jessica Lam, Diane Larsen, Bisi Lawal, Debi Leibovitz, Linda Leonard, Justine Leong, Sheilah Levin, Stella Ligutom, Terri Lonski, Sylvia Lyons, Kristie Mach, Geeta Mande, Charlotte Marshall, Karen Semenoff McCuaig, Silvia Mendoza, Tyler Mitzner, Theresa Knopf Morgan, Allie Moskowitz, Lauri Mraz, Alice Neal, Nancy Nelson, Janice Ogata, Pat Olson, Diane Olson-Baskin, Gilda Ongkeko, Racquel “Rocky” Ormsby, David Orozco, Olga O’Shea, Niccole V. Osborn, Pasadena’s Crochet Meet Up, Lori Perea, Domenica Piumetti, Rita Poon, Nancy Pyne-Hapke, Irene Rezaie, Adrianna Rianna, Judy Richards, Penny Richards, Glenid Rivera, Dolores Robles, Connie Rohman, Marsha Rose, Mary Rosales, Joan Sauve, Erin Shea, Jocelyn Sia, Ginna Siman, Rachel Sirr, Andrea Smith, Kathleen Smith, Rita Smith, Jennifer Snoeyink, Beth Sterner, Ann Storc, Kazuko Tajima,Cameron Taylor-Brown, Jerene Thomson, Threadwinners, Kacy Treadway, Christina Tucker, Cristina Tueler, Evelyn Van Orden, Bonnie Vilchez, Nicole Wade, Jane Wang, Jessica Wards, Kayla Waxman, Fumiko Wellington, Natalie Welts, Nicholas Welts, West Flamingo Yarn Stormers, Wetherby, Maryam Will, Tracy Williams, Stefa Witt, Darlyn Susan Yee, Mariam Yonsset, Maria Zapata, Carol Zou.
Roots of Cool and its programs are generously supported, in part, by Perenchio Foundation; Accelerate Resilience LA, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; and TreePeople.
Artworks: Forest For The Trees © Yarn Bombing Los Angeles
Exhibition Resources and Press Coverage:
Shoshana Ben-Horin's music for Roots Of Cool
Listening Station by Nature of Cities
Redlining touchscreen
Out and About opening reception video
LA Times
Planetizen
NBC Los Angeles
A&R
AOL
Outlook
Pasadena Now
Local News Pasadena
Beverly Press
UCLA Luskin
UCLA Luskin Celebration of Cool
PBS SoCal features Edith de Guzman
07/12-10/12, 2025