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

Fri Apr 29 01:55:21 UTC 2011

All I can say is that I am proud of both of you. I know you are proud of your work. That is good.
Henrietta
On Apr 28, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Annette Carr wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Henrietta
> Brewer
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:51 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> 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
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [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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