It first catches your eye as a riot of color at the back of the hall, visible through a gap between a couple of other exhibits. You investigate, and it reveals itself as a wondrous mishmash of ...
The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life. Installation view of ‘Crochet ...
The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers. Coral reefs inspired the crochet exhibition “Austrian ...
What do hyperbolic crochet and coral reef organisms have in common? They both evolved to maximize surface area within a limited volume. So, naturally, a crafty and talented group of mathematicians at ...
Australian twins Margaret and Christine Wertheim have used incredible crochet techniques to put the fate of coral reefs in the public eye and more than a million have queued up to see it THE NEW ...
Groups of crochet enthusiasts—both students and Santa Cruz community members—have been meeting for student-led crochet circles. By following a surprisingly basic algorithm, but also varying and ...
The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" exhibit is now on view in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall. Eric Long, SI The Natural History Museum's Baird Auditorium showcases scientists and performers from ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Organ pipes, honeycombs, the gills of mushrooms — corals form in a vivid polyphony of shapes and colors. One night in 2005, Australian artists and sisters Christine and Margaret ...
Knitting and crocheting are not only fun and relaxing crafts, but they also may be functional or veer into the artistic realm. A group of 20 knitters from Lancaster Yarn Shop's Thursday Night Knitting ...
Curlicues of multicolored yarn spill over a crocheted disc that looks a lot like coral or a sea anemone, over which a little pink lobster lurks. It’s just a small section of The Asheville Reef, part ...
A new book by Margaret and Christine Wertheim shows how art and math can go hand-in-hand in an explosion of colorful crocheted coral reefs. Margaret Wertheim in the Föhr Reef, Museum Kunst der ...