[Nfb-krafters-korner] Visiting the Crocheted Hyperbolic Coral Reef

Fri Apr 29 00:28:37 UTC 2011

Last October when I was working with Jennifer, I made sure that Krafters
Korner was listed in the list of Community Groups.  To see our division's
name, as well as Dixie's and my names listed on the Smithsonian's Coral
Reef's website, visit uRL:

http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/hreef/communityreef.html

Annette

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Brewer
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visiting the Crocheted Hyperbolic Coral
Reef

I am so glad that you both got to see your work. I am glad you mentioned it
again. Sometimes, I forget what accomplished crafters I am lucky to "rub
elbows" with. lol Well, at least share phone time and list time with. 

I believe that the step out of the safe zone that you made by entering your
pieces is a step forward for all of us. Showing the world what you can do
not only inspires the rest of us to get busy but really shows the goal of N
F B to help the world understand blindness.

Great jobs
Henrietta
On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Annette Carr wrote:

> Hi Dixie,
> 
> I am so glad you were able to get to see the Crocheted Coral Reef exhibit.
> What day were you there?  I finally got my family to go the Wednesday 
> before Easter.  They think they saw 2 of my 7 pieces, but they were 
> not sure.  All of my pieces were part of the toxic reef.  I 
> incorporated water bottles, cassette tape, CD's plastic bags and an oil
filter for an automobile.
> 
> Did anyone tell you about the piece that incorporated CD's and a 
> fishing pole?  There were long strands of crocheted sea weed with CD's 
> in twined in the sea weed and draped around and hanging from the 
> fishing pole.  That was made by a friend of mine from work.
> 
> We found your name on the "wall" and my husband took a picture zoomed 
> in on it.  Last week was my second visit.  I was able to go during the 
> reception in November with my friend and Jennifer was able to point 
> out to us all of my pieces.  I did not get to touch any of the 
> completed reef as it is on display.  I did get to see how they 
> assembled it during the workshop last September when Margaret taught 
> us what needed to be done.  I had hoped to work with Jenifer to 
> arrange for a hands on tour of the reef on the final day, but it never 
> came to be, so I am really glad that you got to have that experience.
> 
> Annette
> 
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> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dixie
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:34 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visiting the Crocheted Hyperbolic Coral 
> Reef
> 
> Last summer I learned from Annette about the crocheted coral reef 
> being made by crafters around the Washington DC area as well as across the
country.
> 
> I thought it might be fun to try and see if I could make a piece that 
> would be accepted into the project. There were 3 categories of the reef
project.
> Healthy coral is vibrant in color, so those pieces are shades of reds, 
> greens, blues, purples, etc.  The bleached coral, is dead coral, and 
> is tans, greys, whites, etc.  Then the third category was coral 
> created out of garbage, like plastic bags, video cassette tapes, or had
pieces of garbage
> like plastic bottles crocheted into them.   The two pieces I created both
> would fit into the "bleached coral" category.   one is a brain coral, that
> is beige with brown specks.  The second one was a bell coral and was 
> made in a fuzzy, creamy, off white.
> 
> 
> 
> The pieces were submitted to the Smithsonian, National museum of 
> Natural History, October 2010.  They then categorized all of the 
> pieces, and made them into the Hyperbolic Community Reef.  The reef 
> was made up of pieces submitted by people ranging in age from 3 to 101 
> years old. I think the statistics were, that there were 800 
> contributors and 4000 pieces. The overall size of the reef is 16 feet
long, 9 feet high and 10 feet deep.
> 
> The reef has been on  display at the Smithsonian Natural History 
> Museum until this past Sunday.  I wanted to see it before the exhibit 
> closed.  I was met by the woman Jennifer Lindsay who helped in the design
of the reef.
> She told me about the evolution of the project and the building of the
reef.
> She also had researched the pieces I had contributed and located them 
> among the pieces in the reef.  She allowed me to reach into the 
> display and touch the pieces that she found that she thought were the 
> ones I had made.  Nobody else is allowed to touch the display this was 
> an accommodation she made for me.  I also was able to touch some 
> pieces they had out for the general public to touch.  One piece was 
> made out of a VSHS tape, another from a cassette tape.  The tapes had 
> been pulled out of their cases and the tape had been crocheted into a 
> piece of garbage coral.  They also did this with plastic grocery bags.  
> I was also allowed to touch a piece that was made of yarn and it was a 
> jelly fish.  That one was really cool and I am going to try and recreate
it.
> 
> So, do corals count as underwater flowers?  Those are my crafted 
> flowers for this week's question.
> 
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> Dixie
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