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Resistance can be beautiful

by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 6, 2025 | Abject, Abstract Painting, Activism, Agency, Art Activism, Art Quilt, Covid, ECUAD MFA, Exhibition, Found Materials, Gathering, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Hearth, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Log Cabin, MakingIsConnecting, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilt Block, Rote Activity, Social Art, Social Distancing, Social Engagement, Upcycle, Upcycling, Zero Waste Art

Hand-making outside the dominant economic system The news is inescapable. The Trump tariffs announced last week will “rupture the global economy,” warns the Prime Minister. This is on top of the inflationary wallop on 45 per cent of Canadians who reported that rising...

Just a reflection, of a reflection, of a reflection, of a reflection

by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2024 | Abstraction, Arcade Fire, Charley Yandle, Creative Process, David Weir, Digital Art, Dystopia, Immersive Art, Installation, Installation Art, Obtrusive Thoughts, Performance, Reflection, Reflektor, Teamlab

I have my share of obtrusive thoughts but this week it’s an ear-worm: Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor.”It jumped into my head while on a brilliant morning bike ride this week, after passing someone walking while talking into her phone raised in that most...

VIDEO tour: ‘Joyful Making in Perilous Times’

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)

Joyful Making in Perilous Times

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...

Big painting shift at little house on the prairie

by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2016 | Art, Art Show, Artist Residency, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Eastend, Embroidery, Exhibit, Experimentation, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Landscape, Mixed Media, Needlework, Paint, Painting, Playing, Process, Quilt, Residency, Retreat, Saskatchewan, Scale, Social Engagement, Stitching, Textile, Wallace Stegner House

Day 12 painting: Embroidered details in a scene of a newly “thrashed” hay field. I’ve just returned from a month in the big country of southwest Saskatchewan: big skies, big farming operations, big empty days that were all too much at the start of my...

Public art is not decoration; it’s a thoughtful disruptor

by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 16, 2015 | Fibre Arts, Haywood Bandstand, Installation, Lighthouse, Lumiere Festival, Network, Public Art

‘Lighthouse’, commissioned by the Burrard Arts Foundation for Lumiere Festival 2015. Carlyn Yandle photo As I was wrapping bolts of fabric around the Haywood Bandstand across from English Bay last Friday, a few intrepid dog-walkers approached me, shouting...

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