Articles About JafaGirls

• Their art bristles with intent

  By Matt MindeOctober 20, 2011

  

  The JafaGirls have come to see themselves as community artists who, through public installations, bring people together and help them reframe their assumptions and see things in new ways.

• Sticky, off-the-wall art on a wall

  By Diane ChiddisterJune 16, 2011

  

  You can call it art to chew on, or art that’s already been chewed. Whatever you call it, the Traveling Gum Wall is the most recent offbeat community art project by the village’s own Jafagirls, in collaboration with the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

• In time for spring, an artistic blooming on Dayton Street

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 1, 2010

  

  “Flower power” will take on new meaning soon in Yellow Springs, as colorful blossoms spring to life on benches and poles on Dayton and Corry Streets, just in time for the greening of spring. It’s the latest project from Corrine Bayraktaroglu and Nancy Mellon, also known as the JafaGirls.

• Skeins away! Yarn-bombers strike

  By Brooke BryanOctober 1, 2009

  

  Forgive this reporter for stating the obvious: Yellow Springs has been yarn bombed.

  Yarn Bombing, a new glossy craft book, has a definite Yellow Springs flavor: the book features full-page spreads of the fiber art of locals Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu — aka the JafaGirls — presented as a radical art practice called knit graffiti.

• Neat knots and knick-knacks: the Knit Knot Tree finds fame

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 20, 2008

  

  You can call it a tree in a sweater, a community crazy quilt, or one more quirky idea from Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu. Whatever you call it, the knitted art project on the pear tree outside the Emporium seems to have taken the world by storm.