CrochetingTheReef

The Great Barrier Reef, one of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, stretches along the coast of Queensland Australia in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster, that scientists now believe the reef may be dead in 30 years. In homage to the great one, the Institute For Figuring has undertaken to crochet a handmade reef. This woolly testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world duplicates the strange hyperbolic geometry of the oceanic realm.

the Chicago Reef Project Shin Dig Tuesday, August 14, 6:30-8pm please visit us at: www.myspace.com/chicagoreefproject A celebration for the Chicago Reef crocheters and their guests. If you are a contributor, please bring your crocheted reef contributions, complete or in progress. Christine Werthiem of the Institute For Figuring will be on hand to offer her aesthetic eye to individual crocheters and the group. If you are not a contributor and would like to become one, please visit our myspace page for upcoming workshop information: www.myspace.com/chicagoreefproject. THE CHICAGO REEF PROJECT SHIN DIG Tuesday, August 14, 6:30-8pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall, Upstairs 800 S. Halsted St. Reservations requested: 312.413.5353.
		The Great Barrier Reef, one of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, stretches along the coast of Queensland Australia in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster, that scientists now believe the reef may be dead in 30 years. In homage to the great one, the Institute For Figuring has undertaken to crochet a handmade reef. This woolly testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world duplicates the strange hyperbolic geometry of the oceanic realm.
The implications and motivations of the reef project are many. To learn more, visit www.theiff.org and click on coral reef. If you can't make a workshop, but want to produce the reef, go to www.theiff.org and click on the GALLERY section. You will find a taxonomy of reef shapes and simple instructions on how to reproduce them with crochet. Anyone who takes up this style of crochet can begin to develop their own yarn-based species making the Chicago Reef Project a quintessentially communal project. If you have a piece of reef (or several!) to drop off or would like to run your own reef workshop , please contact Catherine Chandler at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum: cath@uic.edu .	------	Co-Sponsored by The Institute for Figuring
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