by Carlyn Yandle | May 20, 2025 | Art Blog, Art School, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Covid, Doilies, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibition, Failure, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Making, MakingIsConnecting, Material Exploration, Pandemic, Ravages, Sculpture, Vancouver
Art school is just the end of the beginningThe concourse was a crush on opening night at Emily Carr University’s Spring grad show. Seventies’ disco music fuelled giddy graduates clutching bouquets, hugging, posing for parents’ photos in front of their exhibits of...
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 | Sep 29, 2015 | AgentC Gallery, Exhibition, Found Objects, Maker, Sculpture, Surrey, Vancouver
It is excruciating to junk a piece of, well, in this case, junk. But it has to be done. Such is the reality of the Vancouver maker who likes to work large but lives in a small space. So I sacrifice Charm Bracelet, following the end of its one and only showing at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2015 | Assemblage, Creative Process, Found Objects, Playing, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Just for the record, my Toybits were created far, far before Mad Max: Fury Road hit the theatres — although the resemblance of those Metallica-esque assault vehicles to my small sculptures is uncanny. For some inexplicable reason (even to myself) I have been...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 5, 2015 | Additive, Art, Collaboration, Draw Down, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Knotting, Macrame, Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, Network, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social Media, Upcycling, Vancouver, Weaving
I’m not knocking social media. Hitting ‘Like’ to one posted act of injustice after another is nothing like joining a sit-in at your MP’s office or marching in protest. But I also get that there is power in those tweets and online petitions. We...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
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