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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 2, 2019 | Children, Collaboration, Community, Construction, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Exploration, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Found Materials, Found Objects, Foundlings, Judith Scott, Knotting, Making, MFA, Mixed Media, Nature, Playing, Recycle, Trash, Trash Art, Upcycling
Clockwise from top left: “This Little Lump”, Sylva and Shyla; “Garbage Catcher”, Coco; “Little Worker”, Kahlio, Basha and Ari. Everyone is feeling that relentless creep of plastic that is threatening to consume us, the consumers. I...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 5, 2019 | Activism, Assemblage, Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Process, Environment, Experimentation, Fiber Arts, Foraging, Found Materials, Found Objects, Foundlings, Innovation, Knotting, Mixed Media, Playing, Project, Sculpture, Styrophobe, Trash, Trash Art
At first I thought all this must still be debris from the Japan tsunami. But that was eight years ago and the surf in my remote neck of the woods keeps throwing up snarls of monofilament netting, plastic shards, nylon rope, bits of fibreglass hulls, and styrofoam. So...
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 | Jul 6, 2018 | Construction, Creative Process, Exploration, Fabric, Fabricating, Fashion, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Found Objects, Jeans, Knots, Macrame, Quilting, Resurge, Use Objects, Wall Hanging
There ought to be an international law against the dirty business of jeans manufacturing.It poisons waterways, mainly in China, prompting environmental groups to raise the alarm against the devastation to communities and local ecosystems, yet consumers around the...
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