Polish-born Olek is internationally acclaimed for her large-scale artworks and is most notable for crocheting her entire studio apartment, her full-body yarn suits, and for stitching a colorful woolly ...

A New York–based artist trying to raise awareness about the ocean’s health is being accused of damaging it. Agata Oleksiak, the yarn artist better-known as Olek, traveled to Cancun earlier this month ...

We knew we were in the right place Thursday night when we spotted the crocheted shopping cart hanging above the storefronts on Orchard Street: yarn-wizard and Runnin’ Scared favorite Olek’s newest ...

The friendship between Fiber artist Olek and contemporary realist painter Dan Witz led to the production of the present lot. The 2014 collaboration between the two artists was first presented by ...

Enough of that showy Olek-esque yarn bombing, the genre has shifted and it's all about minimalism. The Minneapolis-based street artist Hot Tea (aka Hottea, aka Eric Rieger) recently came over to ...

You can't miss it. Just blocks from the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum, a large crocheted mural this week was hung above a yarn shop at the corner of West Main and Canal streets in Rochester. The ...

Crochet artist Olek is famous for covering several NYC public art works in yarn, including the Wall Street Bull (photo via olekappeal.com) Olek recently arrived in London in order to fulfill a variety ...

Measuring 32 feet in size, the massive "yarn bomb" of Harriet Tubman now hangs outside the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. Olek The sound of dozens of excited voices reverberates off the ...

A plane comes in to land over a person covered in crocheted yarn on a beach on St Martin in the Caribbean. Polish-born artist Olek has created wacky crocheted and knitted artworks around the world.