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Call for Artists
LOCATION:
Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Community Gallery
3601 South Gaffey Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
DATE:
January 20 – April 26, 2013
Opening Reception:
Sunday, January 20, 2013 12 -5pm
Part of Angel’s Gate’s year long exhibition Into the Wilderness: The Search Within
Project Description
In November of 2011, the Arroyo Arts Collective and Yarn Bombing Los Angeles invited artists from all over the world to participate in Forest, For the Trees, a built-environment site specific fiber based installation. It was initially assembled in the Annex section of the Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, and later sprouted in the window of the Craft and Folk Art Museum and at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. We are again asking for artists to participate in further growing Forest, For the Trees in the Community Gallery at the Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro.
An old-growth forest, through its great age, exhibits unique ecological features and is often home to rare, threatened, and endangered species of plants and animals, making them ecologically significant. Unfortunately, many of our old-growth forest stands are threatened by habitat destruction at the invasive hands of man.
This exhibition hopes to address the wonders and perils of the forest by adding to an environment which is at once unique and fantastic, dangerous and bizarre, and by acknowledging that one day the built environment may be all that’s left us.
We are looking for all types of yarn art relating to our forest, and encourage both novice and expert crafters with open arms. Who knows what lurks within the deepest, darkest parts of the forest; trees, groundcover, animals, monsters, aliens, maybe a taco plant or two. We’d love to see works which are funny, socially conscience, use unusual materials and/or push the knit/crochet envelope. Recycled knit and fiber materials are encouraged. Pieces may hang from the ceiling, protrude from the wall, lay on the floor, etc… Both two and three-dimensional work will be accepted and appreciated.
Any out of town work will need to be delivered no later than December 15th, 2012. Local work may be delivered to the gallery on January 16th, 2013, between 6am and 9pm. This is a traveling exhibition; all work becomes the property of Forest, For The Trees.
Mail to:
Forest, For the Trees
Heather Hoggan
1552 Oak Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90041
The Arroyo Arts Collective’s mission is to develop and present creative events that educate and expand the audience for culture while creating an awareness of the creative vitality that exists in Northeast Los Angeles, one of Los Angeles’ most historic and historically multicultural communities. http://arroyoartscollective.org/
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, yarn bombing, yarn storming, graffiti knitting, guerrilla knitting, textile graffiti or urban knitting is a type of street art, an urban intervention, which ultimately is self initiated public art that employs colorful displays of knits, crochet or other fiber material. It is a form of environmentally friendly graffiti since it can be easily removed with a pair of scissors without any damage to the surface tagged. http://www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com/
For More Info: Contact Heather Hoggan @323.258.1240, hhoggan@aol.com
LOCATION:
Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Community Gallery
3601 South Gaffey Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
DATE:
January 20 – April 26, 2013
Opening Reception:
Sunday, January 20, 2013 12 -5pm
Part of Angel’s Gate’s year long exhibition Into the Wilderness: The Search Within
Project Description
In November of 2011, the Arroyo Arts Collective and Yarn Bombing Los Angeles invited artists from all over the world to participate in Forest, For the Trees, a built-environment site specific fiber based installation. It was initially assembled in the Annex section of the Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, and later sprouted in the window of the Craft and Folk Art Museum and at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. We are again asking for artists to participate in further growing Forest, For the Trees in the Community Gallery at the Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro.
An old-growth forest, through its great age, exhibits unique ecological features and is often home to rare, threatened, and endangered species of plants and animals, making them ecologically significant. Unfortunately, many of our old-growth forest stands are threatened by habitat destruction at the invasive hands of man.
This exhibition hopes to address the wonders and perils of the forest by adding to an environment which is at once unique and fantastic, dangerous and bizarre, and by acknowledging that one day the built environment may be all that’s left us.
We are looking for all types of yarn art relating to our forest, and encourage both novice and expert crafters with open arms. Who knows what lurks within the deepest, darkest parts of the forest; trees, groundcover, animals, monsters, aliens, maybe a taco plant or two. We’d love to see works which are funny, socially conscience, use unusual materials and/or push the knit/crochet envelope. Recycled knit and fiber materials are encouraged. Pieces may hang from the ceiling, protrude from the wall, lay on the floor, etc… Both two and three-dimensional work will be accepted and appreciated.
Any out of town work will need to be delivered no later than December 15th, 2012. Local work may be delivered to the gallery on January 16th, 2013, between 6am and 9pm. This is a traveling exhibition; all work becomes the property of Forest, For The Trees.
Mail to:
Forest, For the Trees
Heather Hoggan
1552 Oak Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90041
The Arroyo Arts Collective’s mission is to develop and present creative events that educate and expand the audience for culture while creating an awareness of the creative vitality that exists in Northeast Los Angeles, one of Los Angeles’ most historic and historically multicultural communities. http://arroyoartscollective.org/
Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, yarn bombing, yarn storming, graffiti knitting, guerrilla knitting, textile graffiti or urban knitting is a type of street art, an urban intervention, which ultimately is self initiated public art that employs colorful displays of knits, crochet or other fiber material. It is a form of environmentally friendly graffiti since it can be easily removed with a pair of scissors without any damage to the surface tagged. http://www.yarnbombinglosangeles.com/
For More Info: Contact Heather Hoggan @323.258.1240, hhoggan@aol.com
