by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Eastside Culture Crawl, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Vancouver
My daily work corner is one-third of a shared 800-square-foot studio of a mouldering building in the shadow of numerous condo-tower cranes in Mount Pleasant, with a combined rent of more than $1,000 per month. In the four years that I’ve managed to hold onto...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 17, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Collage, Dallas-duobaitis, Data-graphic, Distraction, ECUAD, Exhibit, Gallery, Globalization, Innovation, Inspiration, Monique Motut-Firth, Sculpture, Technology, Vancouver, Visual Field
Detail from Emily Carr Masters student Duobaitis’ ink on board work, ‘(re) formatting’, 2014. How we’re feeling about our place in an uncertain world is evident on art school walls.This is where the next generation of emerging artists grapples...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 7, 2014 | Architecture, Art School, Business, Collaboration, Creative Process, Cultural Hub, Culture, Design, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Expression, Gallery, Granville-island, Industrial Design, Industry, Innovation, Inspiration, Performance, Production, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Photo of ECUAD’s South Building by Stephen Hui/Georgia Straight When finally — yet suddenly — I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, I was done, done, done, exhausted after four intense years of input. Now I needed space for four more years of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Art School, Artist Statement, Craft, Crafts, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, ECUAD, Fabric, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Flo, Found Objects, Fractal, Gallery, Handwork, Installation, Liz Magor, Maker, Net, Painting, Ravages, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Use Object, Wrap I, Wrap II
Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 19, 2013 | Free Store, Gallery, Innovation, Networking, Photography, Process, Quilt, Raw Materials, Rug, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Studio, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Vancouver
Image found at vancouverisawesome.com I’ve been thinking for a long time that Vancouver needs a Free Store, just like the most popular ‘retail’ store on the Gulf Island of Lasqueti. And now there it is, inside the old vault of a former dim sum...
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