Yarnbombing Los Angeles (original) (raw)

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.

NEW DATE! Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 6-9pm
https://theautry.org/events/family-activities/autry-after-hours-simple-pleasures-yarn-bombing

Two Ways to Get Involved!

Call for Knitted and Crocheted Elements
We're in search of small UFOs (Un Finished Objects), leftover granny squares, that scarf you never liked, the sock or glove that just wasn't quite right, the sweater that has seen slightly better days. Items can be any color or colorway but

MUST

be made of 100% synthetic fibers (acrylic, nylon, polyester).

Please record the elements you wish to contribute on the following form...
https://forms.gle/i5xDfC1yTEZ17eHa9

Then mail the elements to arrive by 3/15/25 to:
YBLA c/o Darlyn Susan Yee
1455 W Redondo Beach Blvd, Ste 2510
Gardena, CA 90247-6528

Call for Stitchers
We are compiling a list of 10 volunteer stitchers based in the Los Angeles area to help us with the stitching assembly of the yarn bomb installation on Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 6-9pm. As one of the 10 YBLA volunteer helpers, you'll receive free admission to the Autry and the event.

Please sign up here...
https://forms.gle/zsKrd4PtnXXZS72e9

HOW CAN I JOIN YARN BOMBING Los Angeles? Picture WHAT HAPPENS IN YBLA MEETINGS? Picture WHAT IS YBLA? Picture ​Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a group knitters, crocheters and fiber artists who have been collaborating since 2010. YBLA stages public installations and performances to help expand the definition of public art to embrace street art, including self-initiated, ephemeral urban interventions utilizing fiber material. Collaborative art making, community building, public outreach, blurring boundaries between contemporary art practices, graffiti and craft are integral components to YBLA's practice.The group organically grew out of a participatory yarn bombing event organized by the Arroyo Arts Collective in Los Angeles and became an entity of its own during the six month process of putting together Yarn Bombing 18th Street, an interlacement of site specific installations featuring 65 local and international knit graffiti artists. YBLA projects range from the day long urban intervention outside MOCA's seminal Art in the Streets show to conducting knit graffiti workshops for LAUSD teachers, students and their parents.For a brief video featuring recent YBLA projects please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofiidpN_qA WHAT IS YARN BOMBING? Picture Yarn bombing is a relatively recent form of street art that employs colorful displays of knits or crochet and other fiber material instead of paint in public space. Some engage in yarn bombing as a fun and creative way to use up left over yarn, others consider it an urban intervention to personalize otherwise cold and impersonal spaces or to make socio- political statements. Humor is often a major component of yarn bombing, which by its nature embodies contradictory idiosyncrasies within itself. In its seemingly odd juxtaposition of knitting and graffiti, often associated with opposing concepts such as female, granny, indoors, domestic, wholesome and soft vs. male, enfant terrible, outdoors, public, underground and edgy, the practice of yarn bombing redefines both genres. Yarn bombing transforms knitting from a domestic endeavor to public art, recontextualizing both knitting and graffiti, both of which are marginalized creative endeavors that fall outside “high art.” Like all public art, be it sanctioned commissions or self-initiated, unauthorized formats, yarn bombing imposes a particular aesthetic onto an environment that may be appreciated by some, but may not appeal to everyone. Yet, yarn bombing is necessarily ephemeral due to its use of materials and perhaps the most environmentally friendly graffiti because it can easily be removed with a pair of scissors and no damage left behind.