by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 6, 2019 | Art School, Braided Rug, Carlyn Yandle, Conceptual Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Critique, Deep Craft, Denim, Design, Domestic, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Labor, Labour, Macrame, Resurge, Slow Craft, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Visual Language, Weaving
In the final critique of my final work in this second-to-final semester of graduate studies, I could see that there was going to be trouble. From the start, there was the trouble of actually getting a full view of this sprawling, chaotic, twisted mass of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 5, 2019 | Activism, Challenge, Collaboration, Colonialism, Construction, Craftivism, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Gentrification, Grid, Handwork, Health, Hearth, Homelessness, Log Cabin, Making, MFA, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Safe Supply, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Vancouver
I have this idea for building healthy community in this pretty/cold city through hand-making. It’s a process of making peace with ourselves and connecting with others, transforming individualized desires (thanks, capitalism) into shared desires for a sustainable life...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 22, 2019 | Craft, Creative Process, Crochet, ECUAD, ECUAD MFA, Emily Carr University, Exploration, Fabricating, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hybrid Thinking, LOoW, Material Exploration, Mathematics, MFA, Origami, Paper Sculpture, Process, Smocking, Space Craft, Tyvek
Material research using found spun polyester fibre, for an artwork resulting from a year’s conversation with scientists and scholars. (Carlyn Yandle photos) About a decade ago I stumbled across Latvian-American mathematician Daina Taimina’s curious crochet...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 30, 2019 | Artist, Business, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Craft, Craftivism, Crafts, Critique, Exhibition, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Identity, Profession, Recycle, Social Engagement, Upcycling
Back when I was still transitioning from workaday newspaper editor to mainly work-for-free artist I applied for a Nexus card.”Whaddaya you do for a living?” asks the clerk in her American drawl, without looking at me.When I get this question I always wish...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 2, 2019 | Children, Collaboration, Community, Construction, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Exploration, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Found Materials, Found Objects, Foundlings, Judith Scott, Knotting, Making, MFA, Mixed Media, Nature, Playing, Recycle, Trash, Trash Art, Upcycling
Clockwise from top left: “This Little Lump”, Sylva and Shyla; “Garbage Catcher”, Coco; “Little Worker”, Kahlio, Basha and Ari. Everyone is feeling that relentless creep of plastic that is threatening to consume us, the consumers. I...
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