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by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 23, 2024 | Art Quilt, Burlap, Collage, Denim, Expanded Painting, Experimentation, Failure, Found Materials, Jeans, Material Exploration, Quilting, Tyvek
Past failures are invaluable teaching toolsThis is my picking-up-the-pieces post, which is literally what I’m doing these days (and late nights).With the outlook looking very dark indeed I turned to my colourful stash of fabrics that I keep at eye level in a wine...Stitching a story of a final send-off
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 16, 2024 | Boro, Clay Yandle, Collage, Culture, Denim, Embroidery, Fabrication, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Landscape, Narrative, Patchwork, Quilting, Recycle, Sashiko, Slow Craft
This one’s for my brother, on his second memorial Father’s Day.I started the artwork just after returning from his ashes-scattering ceremony on one of the Gulf Islands, as he requested in the few weeks before his death. I had suggested a flotilla led by his...Unwieldy and unfinished — fitting for this pandemic project
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...VIDEO tour: ‘Joyful Making in Perilous Times’
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)Joyful Making in Perilous Times
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...Recent Posts
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