Get seriously WARPED!
Join CSULB students and alumni from the Design and Fiber programs and members of the award-winning art collective, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, and the The Long Beach Depot for Creative ReUse for a radical collaborative fiber intervention of the new space-frame sculpture, MatterApp:Pyramidial!
MatterApp:Pyramidial (MA:P) a student "crowdsourced" design, was inspired by the Walter Pyramid and created through a collaboration between the students of CSULB Assistant Professor Heather Barker’s Environmental Communication Design Class and the LA-based nonprofit Materials & Applications.
Nestled upon a grassy knoll between the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater, the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall, and MA:P’s inspiration, the bright blue Walter Pyramid, this elegant geometric sculpture can been seen from the city street and is perfect for an intervention!
WE NEED WEAVERS!
While we apply the term "yarnbomb," we will be using a variety of materials, from yarn, nylon, and glow-in-the-dark cord to VHS tape and other repurposed material.
In advance, artists-organizers involved will prepare a warp for you to weave! Got ideas? Share them! Got extra material? Bring it!
Join us!
July 8 (10 – 6 pm) WEAVING DAY!
Free participatory event! Public invited to complete woven structure
MA:P is unfinished steel and the patina is beautiful, but it is iron-red—so be sure to wear your grubby clothes and sneakers!
July 10 (5 – 7 pm) Public reception to Celebrate MatterApp: Pyramidial and the yarnbombing
For more about MatterApp:Pyramidial we invite you to visit the UAM Tumblr page
For more about Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, we encourage you to read this 2014 profile from the Los Angeles Times:
For more about The Long Beach Depot for Creative ReUse, visit their website
For more about the UAM, visit our website
For a map to MatterApp: Pyramidial, click here
Funded by an NEA Art Works Design grant, MatterApp:Pyramidial is presented by the University Art Museum at CSU Long Beach. It culminates the Spring 2014 UAM exhibition Materials & Applications: Building Something (Beyond) Beautiful, Projects 2002–2013, a capstone to more than ten years of effort at the Los Angeles-based experimental architecture and design organization Materials & Applications (M&A) to advance new and underused ideas in art, architecture, and landscape.