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Lessons from the grad show

by | 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...

Materials matter, and Those of loved ones gone can live on

by | May 26, 2018 | Art, Challenge, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Domestic, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Garment, Innovation, Inspiration, Making, Quilt, Quilting, Recycle, Sewing, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Wool

Clockwise from top left: Great-Grandfather Quilt; Dad’s Throw; Tie Cushion. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Materialistic. People say it like it’s a bad thing.But there’s not necessarily anything selfish or hoardy or wasteful about feeling deeply connected to...

One bit, two bits, green bits, black bits

by | Mar 13, 2015 | #overthinking, Additive, Aesthetics, Architecture, Assemblage, Building, Composition, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Inspiration, Making, Playing, Process, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling

Toybits (green) – made from broken toys (Carlyn Yandle photo) This may be the third or fourth column/post I’ve written that could come under the headline, ‘Overthinking will be the death of me.’ There is definitely a book in there somewhere...

Exhibit of a great mistake was just the push I needed

by | Feb 27, 2015 | Art Show, Assemblage, Challenge, Collaboration, Collage, Composition, Creative Process, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Experimentation, Facebook, Failure, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Making, Monte Clark, Omer Arbel, Paper, Pattern, Toybits

Vancouver-based creative force Omer Arbel and Monte Clark teamed up to embrace the power of happy accidents (Carlyn Yandle photo) Last week Monte Clark gave four of us some insight into how an experiment by Omer Arbel went awry and ended up as a dazzling installation...