INSPIRED BY NATURE
Inspired By Nature:
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles at the Autry Museum of the American West
October 9, 2025
Embracing the joys of community-based collaboration, members of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and the greater Los Angeles community gathered to repurpose and assemble stitched, crocheted, and knitted floral and plant elements, transforming the Autry’s mezzanine with a colorful yarn art installation. Celebrating the native plants on display in the Autry’s outdoor California Continued Ethnobotanical Garden, the mezzanine installation beckons visitors to pause and reflect upon the beauty of the Garden and the world around us.
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.
Floral and Plant Elements and Materials Contributors Autry Museum’s Annual Summer Block Party Attendees, Melissa Federowicz, Becky Goodman, Guess Cares, Francesca Innocenti, Lauri Mraz, Ola, David Orozco*, Ashley Reynolds, Meriel Stern, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Darlyn Susan Yee*, and more.
Stitching Collaborators Becky Goodman, Gem Lagonoy, Debi Leibovitz, Lauri Mraz, David Orozco*, Lily Orozco, Pat Ortiz, Sarah Todd, and Darlyn Susan Yee*
* Core Members
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles at the Autry Museum of the American West
October 9, 2025
Embracing the joys of community-based collaboration, members of Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and the greater Los Angeles community gathered to repurpose and assemble stitched, crocheted, and knitted floral and plant elements, transforming the Autry’s mezzanine with a colorful yarn art installation. Celebrating the native plants on display in the Autry’s outdoor California Continued Ethnobotanical Garden, the mezzanine installation beckons visitors to pause and reflect upon the beauty of the Garden and the world around us.
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.
Floral and Plant Elements and Materials Contributors Autry Museum’s Annual Summer Block Party Attendees, Melissa Federowicz, Becky Goodman, Guess Cares, Francesca Innocenti, Lauri Mraz, Ola, David Orozco*, Ashley Reynolds, Meriel Stern, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Darlyn Susan Yee*, and more.
Stitching Collaborators Becky Goodman, Gem Lagonoy, Debi Leibovitz, Lauri Mraz, David Orozco*, Lily Orozco, Pat Ortiz, Sarah Todd, and Darlyn Susan Yee*
* Core Members