At 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 7th you can learn to create your own piece of the ongoing CU Satellite Crochet Coral Reef project.
“The Crochet Coral Reef is a project by Australian-born twin-sisters Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles based Institute For Figuring. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, the work simulates living reefs using techniques of crochet to mimic in yarn the curling crenelated forms of actual reef organisms. Corals and other frilly reef creatures are biological manifestations of “hyperbolic” geometry. Through an unlikely fusion of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and collective art practice, the Wertheims and their contributors produce large-scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. At once figurative, fantastical, worldly and dispersed, the Crochet Coral Reef offers a beautiful impassioned response to dual calamities devastating marine life: climate change and plastic trash.” — from Margaret Wertheim’s website
Register for the one-hour Zoom tutorial here. Or find out more on Facebook.
Participants are invited to keep crocheting up until the end of March of 2021. The final collaborative creation will be unveiled at the Siebel Center for Design in April 2021.
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