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 | Jun 20, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Display, Exhibit, Gallery-row, Gentrification, Marketing, South-granville, Vancouver
The neighbourhood as it was when I lived there. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with South Granville, the shopping strip between 6th and 16th Avenues.This was the neighbourhood of my first apartment, a $350-per-month studio in the old Greenwood Lodge, in the...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Eastside Culture Crawl, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Vancouver
My daily work corner is one-third of a shared 800-square-foot studio of a mouldering building in the shadow of numerous condo-tower cranes in Mount Pleasant, with a combined rent of more than $1,000 per month. In the four years that I’ve managed to hold onto...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 7, 2014 | Architecture, Art School, Business, Collaboration, Creative Process, Cultural Hub, Culture, Design, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Expression, Gallery, Granville-island, Industrial Design, Industry, Innovation, Inspiration, Performance, Production, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Photo of ECUAD’s South Building by Stephen Hui/Georgia Straight When finally — yet suddenly — I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, I was done, done, done, exhausted after four intense years of input. Now I needed space for four more years of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 24, 2014 | Business, Distraction, Maker, Marketing, Motivation, Production, Research
I was told there would be no math. Turns out there’s nothing but math in making things, and all kinds of math in packaging it all up for clients and justifying it all to Revenue Canada. I love to build stuff but I am not wired to readily tackle building an Excel...
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