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The Craft as well as Folk Artwork Museum received a new colorful makeover courtesy of a knit graffiti collective called Yarn Bombing Los Angeles. Your guerrilla artwork team covered the dockphone actual CAFAM facade throughout 12,000 crocheted granny squares, designed to shine the spotlight by using an oft-overlooked venue in the city's Museum Row.

The project, which brought together needle-bearing artists coming from 50 states as well as 25 countries, continued display last weekend, converting an in any other case plain brick building in to a multi-colored masterpiece. The Particular outcome -- "Granny Squared" -- blends the particular very best elements of craft culture along with architecture to generate an urban intervention that will aims in order to challenge those nasty preconceptions regarding what art truly is.

Involving any wide range of contributors, via visually-impaired people in the Braille Institute of America to neurotherapy patients through Turkey, the particular YBLA endeavor has evolved into a larger effort compared to team initial blindfold imagined. Since any result, the actual project organizers have partnered with just about all the Downtown Women's Middle associated with L.A. to extend your mobility knitted work in Skid Row until December 2013.

Watch the actual video down below to know more private stories from the knitters behind "Granny Squared." Scroll by means of the slideshow to get brailliant a peek with more of CAFAM's temporary costume and also let us recognize everything you consider the particular institute's yarn bombing extravaganza inside the comments.

"CAFAM Granny Squared" is going to be about view until July 1, 2013.