Interested in adding to the New York Reef ?

WFC In the Loop invites you to add your crocheted coral pieces to the exhibit at the World Financial Center. The deadline is May 17 to submit your work.

If you're interested, please email us at intheloop@brookfieldproperties.com and you'll receive information about how and when we'll be collecting pieces.

Our next scheduled meetings for In The Loop are
Brown Bag Social, May 2, 12-2p
After Work Social, May 7, 6-8p

More meeting dates can be added if there's an interest.
Let us know. We'd love to hear from you.

Fiber Arts & Science podcast

The WNYC Radio interview with Margaret Wertheim, Barbara Van Elsen and Njoya Angrum was the 2nd most frequently emailed item by WNYC.org visitors in the past 7 days !

Fiber Arts & Sciences: The Hyperbolic Crochet Reef (The Brian Lehrer Show: Tuesday, 08 April 2008)

Listen here to the episode:

Also, click here Brian Lehrer Show April 8, 2008 show page and email it forward to your friends.

Crochet Instructions

If you're new to crochet, there are lots of video instructions online.

Here's a link to a really nice one: NexStitch
The creator is Amie Hirtes. Read about her in the Identity link on her website.

In the News

Everybody's talking about The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

Time Out New York
Coral fixation
Reef madness strikes the World Financial Center
by Adam Rathe
Click here for the Article

WNYC Radio, The Brian Lehrer Show
Fiber Arts & Sciences: The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Interview Margaret Wertheim, who along with her sister Christine curated the exhibit, Barbara Van Elsen, founder of the New York Crochet Guild
and Njoya Angrum, founder of the Harlem Knitting Circle
Click here for link to the show page

Submissions to New York Coral Reef Extended

Next Meeting: Thursday, April 10 from 6-8pm.
We'll meet near The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef exhibit, in the Winter Garden near the grand staircase.

The exhibit includes the New York Coral Reef, a collection of beautiful pieces made by the New York Crochet Guild, Harlem Knitting Circle and many more craftspeople. Because there's so much interest in continuing to make more coral pieces, In The Loop is coordinating the extension of the New York Coral Reef. This will be added to the display in May when the Toxic Reef leaves for it's next show in London.

In The Loop meeting

View of the Winter Garden

Getting to the World Financial Center Winter Garden is easy and worth the trip
Click here for Map and Directions

Coral Reef Installation In Progress

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is being installed this week in the Winter Garden, and it's looking fantastic already.

Stop by Friday's In The Loop Brown Bag Social 12-2pm and you'll get a sneak preview before it officially opens on Monday.

Get your creative minds and hands going on this important project - we'll be adding coral pieces to the exhibit in May when the Toxic Reef leaves for it's next exhibition in London.

Coral Reefs grow in the Winter Garden

shown here: Institute For Figuring's "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef"
2007 exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center.

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef will be an exhibit at the World Financial Center Winter Garden beginning April 7 through August. In The Loop invites all interested parties in contributing their own coral pieces, to be incorporated into the exhibit beginning May 17. Patterns, samples and lessons will be available at the Brown Bag and After Work Socials listed in the Spring Season schedule. Click here for pattern instructions.

What is a Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef?

What began as an experiment in modeling mathematical space, The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is an exquisite exhibit of handmade pieces made by hundreds of craftspeople from around the world. Previously shown at the Chicago Cultural Center, Andy Warhol Foundation Museum and other exhibit halls, the Coral Reef will be on display at our very own Winter Garden at the World Financial Center beginning April 7.

Curated by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring, the exhibit will include parts of the Chicago Coral Reef and the Toxic Coral Reef (made of yarn from strips of plastic bags and other otherwise toxic materials).

Workshops hosted by NYU's Institute for Humanities, co-sponsors of the exhibit, have set the New York Crochet Guild and Harlem Knitting Group into creative work mode - making coral pieces that will be assembled for the first time in this exhibit.

The New York Coral Reef

The newest addition to the project will be the New York Coral Reef. In The Loop invites all interested parties in contributing their own coral pieces, to be incorporated into the exhibit beginning May 17. Patterns, samples and lessons will be available at the Brown Bag and After Work Socials listed in the Spring Season schedule.

For more information on the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
visit the Institute for Figuring website
http://www.theiff.org/

Read the New York Times Article by Patricia Cohen
Want to Save a Coral Reef? Bring Along Your Crochet Hook.