#ellenlesperance

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Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

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Artists Using Crochet

Try to think of crochet outside of any preconceived ideas you might have about it. Crocheting is a just another way of constructing fiber and fiber-like materials into a structure that can be manipulated to serve your art production.

Here are some examples of contemporary artists using fiber in their work....

Images from top:

large scale crochet installation by Ernesto Neto

Jim Drain “drifter” a sculpture from 2018

Congratulations & Celebrations project by Ellen Lesperance, worn here by Jennifer Kabat

sculpture by Josh Faught

public art project by Orly Genger called Hurly Burly from 2016

yarn bombing Los Angeles 2013 project “CAFAM Granny Squared”

2 images of projects by artist Mark Newport: the first, documentation of performance called “Alter egos” from 2009, the second, “sweaterman 6″ from 2010

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864

[bm-feminist-art]

Cardigan Worn by One Woman of the Boeing Five, Tried for Entering the Boeing Nuclear Missile Plant on September 27th, 1983, Sentenced to Fifteen Days in the King County Jail for Defending Life on Earth, Ellen Lesperance, 2011, Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

© Ellen Lesperance Size: a: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.7 cm) frame (a): 27 × 34 1/2 in. (68.6 × 87.6 cm) c: 6 × 14 × 17 1/4 in. (15.2 × 35.6 × 43.8 cm) Medium: Wool sweater hand knit by the artist, and gouache and graphite on tea stained paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/207864