The “Crochet Coral Reef,” created with Christine Wertheim, has been exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale and many other international venues. crochetcoralreef.org. More to Read .

To raise awareness of the threats posed to reefs, Australian-born, Los Angeles-based twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim created a traveling art project called Crochet Coral Reef, where as ...

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 ...

We could crochet a coral reef.'" The exhibit first appeared at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum in 2007. And wherever it goes, Wertheim encourages the local community to create its own reef.

In fact, the Crochet Coral Reef is the biggest participatory science and art project on Earth at the moment, according to the Wertheim sisters. The Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery is running an exhibition ...

The Crochet Coral Reef project neither denies the desperate conditions nor proposes their cataclysmic end. Instead of giving up on sick and dying coral reefs, as Bradbury proposes, ...

Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is an exhibition drenched in color, with yarn in orange, blue, teal, purple, and green popping from mounds of crocheted material.

What do hyperbolic crochet and coral reef organisms have in common? They both evolved to maximize surface area within a limited volume. So, naturally, a crafty and talented group of mathematicians at ...

The Crochet Coral Reef was meant to draw attention to global warming and the plight of the Great Barrier Reef. What can we save in California by crocheting?

Crochet Coral Reef: CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean, an exhibition by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, is an artistic response to the environmental crisis of global warming and the ...

The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" will be on display in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall from October 16 through April 24, 2011. You Might Also Like. How to Crochet a Coral Reef.