Darlyn Susan Yee
Fiber and Mixed Media Artist
News
Join Yarn Bombing Los Angeles in celebration of
CAFAM: Granny Squared
http://cafamgrannysquared.weebly.com/
May 25 - July 1, 2013
Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
http://www.cafam.org/
a ground breaking, temporary public art installation on the Museum Row in Los Angeles, CA. This is a community-based project that anyone can contribute to, and anyone walking on the street can enjoy. The project is designed to bring together a community of artists and crafters who otherwise might not have had access to exhibit their work in a museum. Over 500 artists and crafters from 49 states and 25 countries joined to crochet 5inch granny squares.
On a conceptual level the project aims to question the boundaries between art and craft, use scale and color to play with artistic, architectural and institutional identities. YBLA suggests a parallel between how the Craft and Folk Art Museum is dwarfed by the grandiose structures and other museums across the street on Museum Row, and how craft is dwarfed by traditional notions of “high art”. To deconstruct this dynamic, YBLA covered CAFAM in brightly colored, oversized granny squares and other colossal graphic patterns to visually turn CAFAM into a dollhouse and thus "shrinking" it even more and making a commentary on artistic and institutional identities associated with craft, a lesser art form by manipulating architecture, often regarded the highest art form.
After de-installation, the crocheted squares will be sewn into blankets and distributed to the residents of Skid Row. Please stay tuned for more details on the second phase of this project which will culminate in Skid Row around Thanksgiving 2013.
THANK YOU!!!
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles is excited about the positive response this project has received so far:
Los Angeles Times, Arts
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-yarn-bombing-la-at-craft-folk-art-museum-20130603,0,1386690.story
Huffington Post, Arts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/cafam-granny-squared-knit-graffiti-collective-yarn-bombs-museum_n_3348317.html
KLOS Spotlight on the Community
http://www.955klos.com/page/April_28_Cynthia_Interviews_Sasha_Ali_Carol_Zou_and_Darlyn_Susan_Yee_of_Yarn_Bombing_LA_YBLA/8123
NBC Los Angeles
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/the-scene/12000-Granny-Squares-Will-Cover-Museum-Facade-206939781.html
Western Museums Association Blog
http://westmuse.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-cafam-granny-squared-project-los-angeles/
California Home Design
http://www.californiahomedesign.com/blog/2013/05/20/not-your-grandmothers-yarn-bombing-project
ArtSlant Los Angeles
http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/34961
Los Angeles is My Beat
http://ellenbloom.blogspot.com/2013/05/grannysquared.html
WilFair
http://www.wilfair.com/2013/05/whimsy-on-wilshire-boulevard.html
Los Angeles Times, Home
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-lh-yarn-bombing-museum-granny-square-20121106-002,0,4682723.story
LA Street Art Gallery
http://lastreetartgallery.com/?p=1284
Curbed Los Angeles
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/02/craft_folk_art_museum_could_be_covered_in_4700_yarn_squares.php
Examiner Arts & Exhibits
http://www.examiner.com/article/multiple-exhibits-open-at-cafam?cid=rss
Larchmont Buzz
http://www.larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-life/mid-wilshire-about-to-be-yarn-bombed-big-time/
Stich-In Party on International Yarn Bombing Day
Sunday, June 9th, 11am-2pm
24 Smith Alley (across from Il Fornaio)
at One Colorado Old Pasadena
Drop by to help Yarn Bombing Los Angeles stitch together granny squares into blankets that will be distributed to LA’s itinerant population in fall 2013. As suiting backdrop for the event, YBLA has yarn bombed the trees in Smith Alley.
Knotted Vessel is on display in Folk Art Everywhere, a community outreach program of the Craft And Folk Art Museum
New Directions
11303 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90073
For appointment 310-914-5966
http://www.newdirectionsinc.org/
Darlyn's knitted Body Cocoon No. 16 is on display in the Loft at
TAG Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave., D-3
Santa Monica, CA 20404
Macrame Today: Contemporary Knotting Projects, a book by Darlyn Susan Yee
is now available through retail and online booksellers,
and directly from Schiffer Books