by Carlyn Yandle | May 20, 2025 | Art Blog, Art School, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Covid, Doilies, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibition, Failure, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Making, MakingIsConnecting, Material Exploration, Pandemic, Ravages, Sculpture, Vancouver
Art school is just the end of the beginningThe concourse was a crush on opening night at Emily Carr University’s Spring grad show. Seventies’ disco music fuelled giddy graduates clutching bouquets, hugging, posing for parents’ photos in front of their exhibits of...
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 | Jul 18, 2014 | Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Critique, Film, Innovation, Installation, Mark Lewis, Perception, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Video
Now that we’re all carrying around the equivalent of movie cameras and photo-editing studios in our pockets and purses we are each potential blockbuster or documentary filmmakers, iMovie-ing and uploading all of life’s activities that have become...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 4, 2014 | Alison Woodward, Collaboration, Conceptual Art, Connie Sabo, Craft, Crafts, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Exhibit, Fiber, Fibre, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Innovation, Installation, Invention, Joseph-wu, Newspapers, Openings, Process, Rachael Ashe, Sarah-gee-miller, Semiotics, Vancouver, Weaving
Clockwise from top: Connie Sabo, Rachael Ashe and Sarah Gee Miller with their respective works. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Sarah Gee Miller says she’s pretty handy. That’s the understatement of the evening. Her paper ‘paintings’ are not only...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 18, 2013 | Cindy Sherman, Conceptual Art, Cultural Studies, Expression, Irena Werning, Perception, Performance, Performance Art, Photography, Political Art, Portrait, Sculpture
Thank god for The Walking Dead. It is the one force that has the power to kill off the overpopulation of pink princesses.All that Pepto-Bismol-hued froth and glitter kicks in my gag reflex but I’m no censor; I’ve indulged in the princess fantasy of those...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 11, 2013 | Art, Art Discourse, Assemblage, Color, Colour, Composition, Conceptual Art, Craft, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Kimsooja, Openings, Painting, Pattern, Performance Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social History, Textile, Vancouver
Kimsooja with curator Daina Augaitis Internationally renowned artist Kimsooja was verklempt at the opening reception for her show, Unfolding, at the Vancouver Art Gallery Thursday. Her audience would soon feel that emotion unfolding as the soft-spoken artist led a...
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