Yarn Bombing and Craft Spoken Here at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

 The exhibit runs from May 5 – August 12, 2012

To open their Craft Spoken Here Exhibit the Philadelphia Museum of Art had the Lion Brand Yarn Company and fiber artist Jessie Hemmons yarn bomb the facade of the museum. Perelman yarn bombed the building's facade using the yarn company 's most popular colors. the result is a happy explosion of bright colors and large granny squares. 

Lion Brand Yarn Company is the yarn sponsor for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Craft Spoken Here”. This is the museum’s first special exhibition dedicated to crafting. Yesterday, Jessie Hemmons, a Philadelphia fiber artist known as the Philadelphia Yarn bomber, yarnbombed the facade of the museum’s Perelman building using two of Lion Brand Yarn Company’s most popular yarns in bright colors, Hometown USA and Vanna’s Choice.


"Found in urban, suburban and rural environments, knit bombing is a public form of contemporary craft concerning reclamation and personalization of public places. Knit bombing is a fairly new form of street art which entails knitting and crocheting cozies for trees, signs, lampposts and bike racks and varied forms of adornment on public sculpture. Also called yarn bombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting, and graffiti knitting, knit bombing is a vibrant and uplifting form of fiber art which made its first appearance in the United States in Houston, Texas in 2005 at the hand of the crafter Magda Sayeg. Sayeg’s inspiration for yarn bombing came in the form of leftover yarn which she knitted to create a cozy for the doorknob of her boutique. The rest is history." (from the museum's site).


You can read more about the exhibit at Handmadeinpa.net, Craft Spoken Here: Artist Jesse Hemmons yarn-bombs the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Watch the yarn bombing in action below.

More at Craft Spoken Here.