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Faith is key when you’re cutting up family heirlooms

by | Jun 7, 2024 | Anxiety, Art Quilt, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Colour, Conceptual Craft, Connection, Craftsmanship, Embroidery, Forage, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Heirloom, Linen, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Sewing, Slow Craft, Textiles

Is it easy to cut up hand-embroidered linen tablecloths, runners, pillowcases?It is not. As an adequate hand-stitcher I understand the skill, labour, time and patience that goes into each linen. I understand the desire to cherish these vintage domestic-craft objects...

VIDEO tour: ‘Joyful Making in Perilous Times’

by | 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)

Art student’s off-grid heater would make quite the gift

by | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object

Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...

Inspiration from those who make it, through Crassmas

by | Dec 12, 2014 | Art, Artist, Caroline Eriksson, Ceca Georgieva, Christmas, Color, Colour, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Culture, DSquared2, Emily Blincoe, Gingerbread, Ideas, Maker, Making, Meditative, Performance Art, Sculpture

It’s not too late to say, Nay! I will not be coerced into this coming two-week commercial frenzy. I will steer my little ship into calmer waters! Instead of joining the throngs of harried consumers grabbing up plastic chocolate-pooping reindeer and ironic...

Packing it all in for the Toronto design fest

by | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Show, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Hub, Culture, Dear Human, Design, Exhibit, Fabricating, Festival, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Fuzzy Logic, Gallery, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Knitting, Lecture, Maker, Openings, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Spore, TO DO, Toronto Design Offsite, Vancouver

It’s getting close to a decade since I packed it all in: my needles and wool, my sewing machine and fabrics, my mid-level-management career. There was more to explore.I’ve been mixing it up with a wide range of materials (and makers) ever since but even...

craftsmanship at the core of paper art show

by | 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...