by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 10, 2019 | Architecture, Art School, Assemblage, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craft, Crochet, Emily Carr University, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Industrial Design, Industry, Knotting, Macrame, MFA, Pattern, Rebar, Recycle, Scaffolds, Social Engagement, Textile, Tyvek, Upcycling, Vancouver, Wall Hanging
The brilliant part about being an aging female is your growing self-acceptance. Maybe this is because you don’t feel that ever-present gaze anymore so you’re not feeling as judged. Or maybe it’s because you’ve just had enough of all that and it’s tiresome and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 10, 2018 | Activism, Appropriation, Architecture, Art School, Challenge, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Community, Construction, Craft, Craftivism, Crochet, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, ECUAD, Emily Carr Cozy, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Expression, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handwork, Intervention, Knitting, Making, MFA, Needlework, Networking, Performance, Political Art, Public Art, Recycle, Safety, Sewing, Social Engagement, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
The other day I did this because it really needed to happen. All that gleaming new-campus architecture, surrounded by other gleaming buildings and gleaming buildings yet-to-come was begging for a little fuzzying up.I did my undergrad at the old Emily Carr University...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 8, 2015 | ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Photography, Vancouver
“Hazel Cheng, 21, Bedroom in Family Home” (Photo by Mary Wendel Genosa) What I’d really like to see is a ‘realitylink’: an aggregate site devoted to photo tours of real Vancouver homes where people actually live, cook, eat, sleep, play, fight, have babies,...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
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...
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