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by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist

Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...

Lessons from the grad show

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...

Resistance can be beautiful

by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 6, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Activism, Agency, Art Activism, Art Quilt, Covid, ECUAD MFA, Exhibition, Found Materials, Gathering, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Hearth, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Log Cabin, MakingIsConnecting, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilt Block, Rote Activity, Social Art, Social Distancing, Social Engagement, Upcycle, Upcycling, Zero Waste Art

Hand-making outside the dominant economic system The news is inescapable. The Trump tariffs announced last week will “rupture the global economy,” warns the Prime Minister. This is on top of the inflationary wallop on 45 per cent of Canadians who reported that rising...

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...

We’re taking on capitalist forces, one stitch at a time

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...

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