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)
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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2020 | Carlyn Yandle, Community Building, Coronavirus, Cover-19, Craftivism, DIY, Fibre, Found Materials, Handmaking, Innovation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Engagement, Utility, Vancouver
We who turn to rote hand-making activity to quell our anxiety have been knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting and needleworking up a storm. My go-to, like countless others stuck at home, is making masks. As the death tolls roll in, I am on auto-pilot. The thing...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 6, 2019 | Art School, Braided Rug, Carlyn Yandle, Conceptual Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Critique, Deep Craft, Denim, Design, Domestic, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Labor, Labour, Macrame, Resurge, Slow Craft, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Visual Language, Weaving
In the final critique of my final work in this second-to-final semester of graduate studies, I could see that there was going to be trouble. From the start, there was the trouble of actually getting a full view of this sprawling, chaotic, twisted mass of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 5, 2019 | Activism, Challenge, Collaboration, Colonialism, Construction, Craftivism, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Gentrification, Grid, Handwork, Health, Hearth, Homelessness, Log Cabin, Making, MFA, Quilt, Quilt Block, Quilting, Safe Supply, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Vancouver
I have this idea for building healthy community in this pretty/cold city through hand-making. It’s a process of making peace with ourselves and connecting with others, transforming individualized desires (thanks, capitalism) into shared desires for a sustainable life...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 22, 2019 | Craft, Creative Process, Crochet, ECUAD, ECUAD MFA, Emily Carr University, Exploration, Fabricating, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hybrid Thinking, LOoW, Material Exploration, Mathematics, MFA, Origami, Paper Sculpture, Process, Smocking, Space Craft, Tyvek
Material research using found spun polyester fibre, for an artwork resulting from a year’s conversation with scientists and scholars. (Carlyn Yandle photos) About a decade ago I stumbled across Latvian-American mathematician Daina Taimina’s curious crochet...
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