by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Art Quilt, Boro, Carlyn Yandle, Coronavirus, Cover, Creative Process, Current Conditions, Denim, Embroidery, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand-stitching, Handmaking, Hashtags, Healing, Jeans, Meditative, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilting, Sashiko, Social Engagement, Stitching, Text, Textile, Vancouver
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance When my nerves are frayed and it feels like the social fabric is unravelling I feel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 27, 2021 | Arleigh Wood, Art Business, Art Discourse, Art Marketing, Artist Talk, Bruce Mau, Eastside Culture Crawl, First Saturday Open Studios, Gill Benzion, Incomplete Manifesto For Growth, Jeff Wilson, Online Talk, Talking Art
For the second year in a row, I’ve been leading artists’ talks as part of the Eastside Culture Crawl.One of the three Talking Art panels this year took on the wooly business of trying to live as a self-supporting artist, which in the city of Vancouver can...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 21, 2021 | Activism, Art Discourse, Art School, Art Show, Artist Statement, Braided Rug, Braiding, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craftivism, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Crochet, Denim, Domestic, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Free Store, Handmaking, Handwork, Hearth, Homelessness, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MFA, Pattern, Project, Quilt, Quilt Block, Research, Resurge, Scaffolds, Scraps, Slow Craft, Soft Sculpture, Tapestry, Trash Art, Tyvek, Video, Video Tour, Zero-waste Art
Click HERE for a 10-minute journey through the methods and motivations behind this MFA thesis. (Film made by Ana Valine, Rodeo Queen Pictures, August 2020)
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 10, 2020 | Activism, Art Quilt, Art School, Art Show, Braided Rug, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Community Building, Denim, Exhibition, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Grad 2020, Hearth, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Macrame, MFA, Quilt, Quilt Block, Resurge, Scaffolds, Slow Craft, Social Engagement, Tapestry, Weaving, Zero Waste Art
Where is the joy when you’re living in a time of a global coronavirus pandemic and a local toxic-drug epidemic? What is the use of making when your city is seized by global investment-real estate schemes, when there’s too much stuff in a overheated planet and a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2020 | Carlyn Yandle, Community Building, Coronavirus, Cover-19, Craftivism, DIY, Fibre, Found Materials, Handmaking, Innovation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Engagement, Utility, Vancouver
We who turn to rote hand-making activity to quell our anxiety have been knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting and needleworking up a storm. My go-to, like countless others stuck at home, is making masks. As the death tolls roll in, I am on auto-pilot. The thing...
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