by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 21, 2014 | Exhibit, Landon Mackenzie, Pompidou, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery
Here’s a plan: Meet up with a friend after work downtown for a drink, then go check out the latest exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. That works just fine — if your workday ends at 3 p.m. Stupid us, we figured that at least we’d get a quick look at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 14, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Artist, Big Data, Critique, Culture, Distraction, Instagram, Marketing, Media, Research, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver
I’ve been giving Instagram a lot of thought. And I’ve concluded that I’m exhausted. (Photo by Carlyn Yandle) I realize that Instagam can turn a small-town lady with a crafty idea into an international business success story, but that’s quickly...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fibre Arts, Lecture, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Port Coquitlam, Terry Fox Theatre, Textile
In the next month you’re likely going to end up stuck at some fatuous seasonal gathering, wondering how soon you can bolt without appearing rude so you can go home and change into your antisocial cozy pants.This is why I like PechaKuchas, lectures delivered in...
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...
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