by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 31, 2014 | Buttons, Children, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Expression, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Garment, Halloween, Mister Rogers, Performance, Thrift Stores, Vancouver
What do you do when one of your closest friends is in the hospital with complications and the weather outside is the perfect visual for seasonal depression? You make!And so I devote this column to the silly business of making and make-believe in trying times. First,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 24, 2014 | Bob Krieger, Bruce MacKinnon, Cartoon, Drawing, Editorial, Media, Newspapers, Social Media
It was a day of horror that has changed the climate at the centre of the Canadian hive forever.And it took an artist to channel our collective grief. Cartoon from thechronicleherald.ca Veteran editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon’s one-panel image that ran in...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture
Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 10, 2014 | Art Show, Cityspace Gallery, Domestic, Exhibit, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver
My brief stint as a home organizer was an eye-opener — door opener, to be precise. I got a rare view of the reality behind the doors of some beautiful houses. Often I was the only outsider who had been invited inside for years, for many different reasons. Home is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 2, 2014 | Author, Betsy Greer, Books, Craftivism, Creative Process, Hot Art Wet City, Kim Piper Werker, Leanne Prain, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
(Photo by Carlyn Yandle) What do you do when you’re suddenly confronted by a threatening sign where this year’s crop of wild blackberries were leveled along the Arbutus corridor?You yarn-bomb it, of course. That’s what one craftivist did, and...
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