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 | Apr 17, 2015 | Activism, Culture, Cycling, Environment, Health, Inspiration, Protest, Public Art, Vancouver
There is a symbiotic relationship between art and cycling. For me, I don’t get to work/play in the studio if I don’t get on my bike, and I don’t get my daily dose of hard-pumping exercise if I don’t go to the studio.My father, a career artist and devoted cyclist, has...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2011 | Health
Caesar Milan saved me from throttling my cairn terrier. Fred Tomaselli saved me from feeling like the art world had no interest in psychedelic patterns.Now Robin McKenzie has saved my back.I have no history of back trouble, even after 20 years hunched over a computer,...
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