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“Crochet Coral Reef” is an artwork designed to bring attention to climate change as well as modeling a difficult mathematical principle in a concrete way. The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a satellite reef to be crocheted by community members.
“Coral Forest” by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim at Lehigh University Arts Galleries.
Photo by Stephanie Veto
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Community members can crochet sea creatures that will become part of a crochet coral reef to be displayed next spring at the new Siebel Center for Design.
Their corals, anemones and sea sponges will be a satellite of the worldwide “Crochet Coral Reef” project that is described as “an artwork responding to climate change, an exercise in applied mathematics and a wooly experiment in evolutionary theory.” The Urbana-Champaign Satellite Reef project launches at 5:30 p.m. Thursday with a Zoom talk by science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim, who created “Crochet Coral Reef” with her twin sister, poet and artist Christine Wertheim.
“Crochet Coral Reef” is an artwork designed to bring attention to climate change as well as modeling a difficult mathematical principle in a concrete way. The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a satellite reef to be crocheted by community members.
“Coral Forest” by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim at Lehigh University Arts Galleries.
Photo by Stephanie Veto
blog posts
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Community members can crochet sea creatures that will become part of a crochet coral reef to be displayed next spring at the new Siebel Center for Design.
Their corals, anemones and sea sponges will be a satellite of the worldwide “Crochet Coral Reef” project that is described as “an artwork responding to climate change, an exercise in applied mathematics and a wooly experiment in evolutionary theory.” The Urbana-Champaign Satellite Reef project launches at 5:30 p.m. Thursday with a Zoom talk by science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim, who created “Crochet Coral Reef” with her twin sister, poet and artist Christine Wertheim.
