Free Art Friday: Screaming Face

I, Jafabrit,  left a couple of Free Art Friday pieces in town (Yellow Springs, Ohio)  this bright and cheery morning.

For those of you who don’t know about Free Art Fridays, it’s a movement around the country and in the UK where artists leave work out for free Art (labeled free art to take home and enjoy). More info is on my Free Art Friday Blog with examples from various artists.

Jafagirls in the News

Photograph by Lauren Heaton for the Yellow Springs News

Well sort of, Nancy is now the Gallery Coordinator for the Yellow Springs Arts Council, and I am her elf helper. I am at the far left and Nancy is at the far right  The article is about the  new location and mission of the arts council.

ps. If you are in town and want to see the Arts Council Permanent Collection and have a few nibbles at the reception Nancy is hosting, pop by the John Bryan Community Gallery tonight between 5pm-8pm.  Click on link here for more info.

Mr.Plato Sighting

Yes, Mr.Plato is out of hiding and was seen having a cuppa brew in Town.

BOOK PROJECT: Jafabrit and Nancy and exhausted after a day of being photographed for a new book coming out by Gale Zucker and Joan Tapper, wheeeeeeeeeeee! See all about it on Jafabrit’s Blog.

LOVE THIS FLOWER

 

Crochet Graffiti

Flower Power Continues ♥

Johanna donated some spare bits of crochet and Nancy and I decided to incorporate these beautiful crochet medallions into a craft/yarnboming piece on the corner of Datyon and Walnut in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  The top portion has the crochet and the black band has flowers by the flower power gang.

 Johanna

Textile Graffiti Butterfly

photo by Jafabrit+ artwork by Nancy Mellon

Nancy and I are working on a new textile/knit graffiti totem pole for Corry Street in Yellow Springs and this little beauty Nancy designed and made will go at the top.

Meanwhile

Flower Power Sew In’s continue at Brother Bear’s Cafe  on Friday mornings and slowly the flowers continue to bloom on Dayton and Corry Street.

Much thanks goes to Brother Bears Cafe, and of course everyone who is coming along and donating supplies and making such BEAUTIFUL flowers, leaves and vines.

THANK YOU

 

 

Textile Graffiti :Karma Chameleon

Moira Laughlin’s chameleon and Maya Dora-Laskey’s flowers added just the right touch to the flower power pole on the corner of Corry Street and Xenia Avenue.

 

The Fate of Yarnbombed Dolls in Graffiti Alley Ann Arbor

My camo dolls seem very popular and don’t last too long before someone nabs them leaving the knit behind. This one was placed march 17, 2010 and even though the doll was taken the knit still looks kind of cool, check out zakzorah’s photograph of the guerilla knitting.

This one from  March 17th, 2009 was decorated with markers for a while before being taken, but the knit was still there. Several flickr members took some super photos and comments are fun to read. Piathia commentator asks “signs of mental illness”?. TracieW called it “sacrifice”. Mfophotos called it “weavers effigy”. Ho Ho Ho Green Barbie by Zakzorah, although some think she looks like Captain Kirk’s green lady.

Alley Cat March 17th, 2008

She stayed up the longest although someone did carve a cross into her head. Somehow she ended up at the bottom of the pole. And she got a moustache LOL!  I think people had fun with this doll for sure.

Flowers Bloom on Dayton Street

Marta Mari              Pierre Nagely           Beth Holyoke

       Sally Palmer                Reena Appell         Karen Jane Russell

Dare to Dream

New Sticker Art from the jafagirls

Don’t listen to the naysayers, to the haters, to that inner voice of fear.

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”

David Brinkley

Knit Knot Tree II Needs Yarnbombing

THe Jafagirls are kicking it off, BUT we need YOUR yarnful talents to make this a community Knit Knot Tree located on Xenia ave outside the Emporium & Underdog Cafe.

If you live in town or just want to visit please bring along your knitting or crochet piece and stitch it onto the tree. If you have any questions just email us at: jafagirlart@yahoo.com

The First Knot Knot Tree 2007-08

Progress Pics of Knit Knot Tree II

Yarn Bombing Book

Nancy and Corrine are proud to be included in the new yarn bombing book and amongst so many experienced knitters/crocheters. If you get a chance to check the book out you will find it visually beautiful with great ideas, patterns, interviews,  and some amazing work.

The giant pink bunny on the Italian hillside has to be my FAVE.

The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain
Arsenal Pulp Press

Knit Graffiti by the Jafagirls
Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu

correction on page 43: Yellow Springs Ohio (not Colorado)