by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2020 | Carlyn Yandle, Community Building, Coronavirus, Cover-19, Craftivism, DIY, Fibre, Found Materials, Handmaking, Innovation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Engagement, Utility, Vancouver
We who turn to rote hand-making activity to quell our anxiety have been knitting, sewing, embroidering, crocheting and needleworking up a storm. My go-to, like countless others stuck at home, is making masks. As the death tolls roll in, I am on auto-pilot.​ The thing...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 30, 2019 | Artist, Business, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Craft, Craftivism, Crafts, Critique, Exhibition, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Identity, Profession, Recycle, Social Engagement, Upcycling
Back when I was still transitioning from workaday newspaper editor to mainly work-for-free artist I applied for a Nexus card.”Whaddaya you do for a living?” asks the clerk in her American drawl, without looking at me.When I get this question I always wish...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 10, 2019 | Architecture, Art School, Assemblage, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craft, Crochet, Emily Carr University, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Industrial Design, Industry, Knotting, Macrame, MFA, Pattern, Rebar, Recycle, Scaffolds, Social Engagement, Textile, Tyvek, Upcycling, Vancouver, Wall Hanging
The brilliant part about being an aging female is your growing self-acceptance. Maybe this is because you don’t feel that ever-present gaze anymore so you’re not feeling as judged. Or maybe it’s because you’ve just had enough of all that and it’s tiresome and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 10, 2018 | Activism, Appropriation, Architecture, Art School, Challenge, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Community, Construction, Craft, Craftivism, Crochet, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, ECUAD, Emily Carr Cozy, Emily Carr University, Experimentation, Expression, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handwork, Intervention, Knitting, Making, MFA, Needlework, Networking, Performance, Political Art, Public Art, Recycle, Safety, Sewing, Social Engagement, Stitching, Subversive Stitch, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
The other day I did this because it really needed to happen. All that gleaming new-campus architecture, surrounded by other gleaming buildings and gleaming buildings yet-to-come was begging for a little fuzzying up.I did my undergrad at the old Emily Carr University...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 10, 2016 | Architecture, City Planning, Culture, Design, Environment, Festival, Social Engagement, Street Art, Urban Design, Vancouver
The steps of the Teatro Juarez transform by day and night for the benefit of the walking public. (Carlyn Yandle photo) A month after I landed in Guanajuato, Mexico it finally dawned on me: there are no traffic lights in this bustling city. You’d think that would...
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...
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