by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 14, 2016 | Children, Creative Process, Experimentation, Exploration, Social Engagement
For the last six Saturdays I have thrown open my studio doors to seven kids between the ages of 5 and 7, ostensibly to offer some art classes, but really, this was for me. I had been feeling a little stuck, with lots of false starts and second-guessing in my artwork....
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 13, 2015 | Craftivism, Found Materials, Installation, Mosaic, Social Engagement, Tagging
I’m sure I didn’t come up with the term ‘mosaic tagging’ but the idea of embedding found remnants of domestic culture into the built landscape has been rolling around my brain for a while. It finally happened this summer, in an East Van back...
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 | May 22, 2015 | Building, Cob, Cob Oven, Collaboration, Construction, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Mud Girls, Nature, Raw Materials, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Where it all began: The Mud Girls retreat that sowed the seed for new/old building modes. Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well...
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,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 23, 2015 | Art Discourse, Artist, Artist Statement, Critique, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Domestic, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Inspiration, Lecture, Macrame, Making, Net, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Performance, Social Engagement, Wrap I, Wrap II
This just uploaded… Six and a half minutes devoted to that question I get a lot:”What’s up with the doilies?”(Video courtesy of Terry Fox Theatre’s PechaKucha program. More info on the entertaining, informative and globally-popular...
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