Join Yarn Bombing Los Angeles for a series of hands-on, drop-in workshops exploring how we see and experience Los Angeles.

Over three Sunday afternoons, visitors are invited to contribute to a collaborative fiber art installation inspired by the exhibition Life, Liberty, and Los Angeles. Each session offers a simple, accessible making activity—no prior experience needed—using yarn and other materials to reflect on the city’s landscapes, rhythms, and communities.

You can participate in one workshop or return for all three. Each contribution becomes part of a larger, evolving artwork that will be installed on the museum’s mezzanine in September.

These workshops are designed as a space to pause, make, and connect—using a familiar creative process to expand observation, conversation, and shared experience.

Workshop dates | come for one or participate in all three!

Sunday, June 28, 2–4 p.m.
Collaborate to stitch and join colorful granny squares, forming a unique panel that celebrates the diverse perspectives of Los Angeles. The finished panel will be displayed as an evolving community installation.

Sunday, July 19, 2–4 p.m.
Enjoy conversation as you make chain- and single-crochet items using a hook or finger crochet techniques. These items, intended to represent familiar features of the Los Angeles landscape, will be added to the community installation.

Sunday, August 23, 2–4 p.m.
Create connections as you learn basic knit and purl stitches using needles or finger knitting. These connecting elements will be used to complete the community installation, which will be on view during the Autry’s annual Block Party on September 26.

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a fiber arts community that engages thousands of people online, worldwide, and locally in the Los Angeles area. YBLA collaborates with city governments, museums, alternative art spaces, and public spaces to create thought-provoking, community-generated public art installations.

YBLA’s work blends and reinterprets different artistic genres, including street art, public art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. YBLA’s mission is to create community-generated, site-specific public art that is tactile and accessible while initiating dialogue about cross-generational connections and craft history.