by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 23, 2015 | Art Discourse, Artist, Artist Statement, Critique, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Domestic, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Inspiration, Lecture, Macrame, Making, Net, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Performance, Social Engagement, Wrap I, Wrap II
This just uploaded… Six and a half minutes devoted to that question I get a lot:”What’s up with the doilies?”(Video courtesy of Terry Fox Theatre’s PechaKucha program. More info on the entertaining, informative and globally-popular...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 16, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Craftivism, Crafts, Crochet, Culture Jamming, Design, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Fabricating, Fashion, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Granny Square, Grid, Handwork, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Making, Pattern, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Visual Field, Yarn Bombing
Maybe it’s the chilly monochromatic climate at work here, but I’m suddenly wrapping myself up granny squares. The more I think about them, the more potential I see.There’s a lot of culture woven into those fuzzy little colour grids. They’re...
by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fibre Arts, Lecture, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Port Coquitlam, Terry Fox Theatre, Textile
In the next month you’re likely going to end up stuck at some fatuous seasonal gathering, wondering how soon you can bolt without appearing rude so you can go home and change into your antisocial cozy pants.This is why I like PechaKuchas, lectures delivered in...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 31, 2014 | Buttons, Children, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Expression, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Garment, Halloween, Mister Rogers, Performance, Thrift Stores, Vancouver
What do you do when one of your closest friends is in the hospital with complications and the weather outside is the perfect visual for seasonal depression? You make!And so I devote this column to the silly business of making and make-believe in trying times. First,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture
Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
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