Diversity makes our community vibrant, and we welcome all types of families to play and learn at Kidspace! Celebrate this diversity and recognize LGBTQ+ families during Pride month with rainbow artmaking. Families are invited to make colorful rainbow art that represents the vibrancy of our diversity and inclusivity for LGBTQ+ families and their allies. Learn embroidery techniques to decorate wooden butterflies. Wrap yarn around flexible materials to create different adornment artifacts such as necklaces, bracelets, head pieces.

About the Artist

Georgina Reskala is a Mexican-Lebanese artist based in Southern California. Reskala’s work is held in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, Jordan Schnizter Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, and the Museo Comunitario de Arte, Sierra Hermosa Zacatecas, Mexico. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Reskala is currently represented by PDX CONTEMPORARY ART in Portland, OR.

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles will create a large-scale yarn rainbow for the community art making space. YBLA is a fiber arts community that engages thousands of people online, worldwide, and locally in the Los Angeles area. YBLA’s work blends and reinterprets different artistic genres of street art, public art, fiber art, social practice, craft, and high art. YBLA’s mission is to create a form of community-generated, site-specific public art that is tactile and accessible, while at the same time initiating dialogue about cross-generation connections and craft history.