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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 26, 2014 | Arleigh Wood, Blog Tour, Blogs, Collaboration, Craft Blogs, Crafts, Culture, Leanne Prain, Maker, Making, Network, Networking, Process, Project, Social Engagement, Social Media, Writing
Arleigh Wood A few weeks back, Vancouver artist-blogger Arleigh Wood asked me if I would be willing to catch the baton on an ongoing, international writers’ blog tour. I’m bullish on all collaborative, non-monetizing projects involving social media so I...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2014 | Aluminum, Cluster, Collaboration, Fabricating, Industry, Installation, Metalworker, Noah Goodis, Public Art, Richmond Art Gallery
Manaen Senkow (left) and Jordan Thys assemble the sculpture. (Carlyn Yandle photo) You know you’re working with the right people when you arrive at their shop with nothing to show for your sculpture idea but some vague sketches and they don’t frog-march...
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