2011
August 20 Stitch n Bitch 2-5pm* Craft and Folk Art Museum 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 The group now meets at CAFAM every 3rd Saturday of the month. For more info please visit www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com August 7 Have Yarn Will Trave/l Car Displays 10am-6pm Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 N Central Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90013 A group of Yarn Bombing 18th St participants, now collaborating under the name Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, yarn bomb their own cars at the Museum of Contemporary Art parking lot on the closing weekend of the MOCA show Art in the Streets in an effort to expand the definition of street art and graffiti. June 18th Yarnbombing 18th St opening party as part of 18th Street Art Night 6-10pm 18th Street Arts Center 1853 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404Yarn Bombing 18th Street installations start drawing in spectators as 18th Street Arts Center Artnight kicks off in conjunction with Jerri Allyn and Inez S. Bush, Debating Through the Arts: Exhibition & Performance 3. Interviews with Yarn Bombing 18th St organizers published at Turnstyle News, Huffington News, China Shop Magazine among others aim to help define yarn bombing as a public art form. June 17 Yarn Bombing 18th St installation 10am-5pm Police briefly interrupt the Yarn Bombing 18th Street when a life-size knit human figure on a light pole on Olympic Blvd. in Santa Monica, CA alarms neighbors. The figure is moved to another location, the installation resumes. Local participants install the site-specific work mailed in by international participants. June 1st Deadline to receive mailed work by international participants May 21th Stitch and Bitch 2-5pm/ last day to submit a proposal 18th Street Arts Center, 1853 18th Street. #5, Santa Monica, CA 90404 also Yarn Bombing CAFAM Craft and Folk Art Museum 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 While a group of Yarn Bombing 18th Street participants meet in Santa Monica, CA and discuss the logistics of the upcoming event, another group yarn bomb Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. May 7 Empathy Circle at Heal Japan Benefit, 3pm-2am Club Fais Do Do 5253 W Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA April 19-25 Empathy Circle in Little Tokyo Facade of the building at Union Center for the Arts 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 http://empathyproject.weebly.com/ A 12’ red circle made of knit material and spelling the word “empathy” in Japanese characters, goes on display at the façade of the Union Center for the Arts in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles. April 16th Stitch and Bitch 2-5pm 18th Street Arts Center 1853 18th Street. #5 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Stitch n bitch meeting. Yarn graciously donated by Crystal Palace Yarns, Arts Garage and individual donors is distributed to participants. A group works on the Empathy Project in response to the earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster in Tohoku, Japan. March 19th Stitch and Bitch 2-5pm 18th Street Arts Center 1853 18th Street. #5 Santa Monica, CA 90404Yarn Bombing 18th Street participants meet at Arzu’s studio in what will become monthly meetings where participants work together, exchange ideas, feedback, tips, techniques & materials. February 19 Orientation meeting for Yarnbombing 18th, 2-5pm 18th Street Artnight 6-10pm 18th Street Arts Center 1853 18th Street. #5 Santa Monica, CA 90404Yarn Bombing 18th Street Orientation Meeting @ Arzu’s studio @ 18th Street Arts Center gathers over 30 participants interested in developing site specific public installations using fiber material in and around the 18th Street. 2010 Nov Yarn Bombing 18th St initiated Fig Knit-On participant and 18th Street Art Center resident Arzu Arda Kosar approaches the Fig Knit-On organizer and Arroyo Arts Collective Co-President Heather Hoggan for another yarn bombing event at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA, eager to coincide it with an upcoming exhibition by Artists in Residence Jerri Allyn and Inez Bush to pay homage to the Feminist Art Movement, an instrumental force in recontextualizing marginalized techniques such as knitting and genres such as public performance as “serious” art. Both Allyn, and 18th Street Art Center resident Suzanne Lacy were involved with the legendary Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. Oct 9 Fig Knit-On Future Studio Gallery 5558 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90042Arroyo Arts Collective organizes Fig Knit-On, knit graffiti installations on North Figueroa St and a fiber arts show inside Future Studio Gallery in Highland Park, CA http://futurestudio.typepad.com/gallery/2010/09/second-saturday-october-9-2010.html |