Coral reefs around the world are dying off at rate faster than the rain forests. Australian twins Margaret and Christine Wertheim, 49, grew up in Queensland in Australia, home to the approximately ...

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 ...

Responding to its plight, in 2005 sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim launched the Crochet Coral Reef project. Together they collaborated on artwork that they hoped would prompt communities to ...

Each of the “Crochet Forest” works took several years to create, a slow build of collaborative shapes constructed by many hands, much as a coral reef takes incredible amounts of time for its ...

The Crochet Coral Reef Project" is a traveling art exhibition that recreates the beauty of the ocean's coral reefs using crochet. Coral reefs are under threat due to climate change, so a group ...

To our surprise, our “Crochet Coral Reef” has blossomed into a community art project spread across the planet, with now nearly 20,000 crocheting participants in 50 cities and countries ...

The Crochet Coral Reef is a massive participatory art project that was created in 2005 by the sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring, a Los Angeles–based organization ...

But with the Crochet Coral Reef it communicates on an immediate sensory level. Was that your goal? MW: Yes, and one of the things that’s very important to us about the project, is that it takes what ...

Its most successful foray into the aesthetics of science is the “Crochet Coral Reef” project, which invites crocheters to create a reef and explore its biological and mathematical complexity.

I think our project has done it, in a way that’s gentle and accessible to people.” ‘Crochet Coral Reef: CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean’ runs through Saturday, May 6, 2017 at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery on the ...

The project's widespread popularity can largely ... It's been really freeing creatively." The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" will be on display in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall from October ...