by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist
Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...
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 | 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 | 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...
Recent Comments