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 | Jul 2, 2019 | Children, Collaboration, Community, Construction, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Exploration, Fabricating, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Fibre, Found Materials, Found Objects, Foundlings, Judith Scott, Knotting, Making, MFA, Mixed Media, Nature, Playing, Recycle, Trash, Trash Art, Upcycling
Clockwise from top left: “This Little Lump”, Sylva and Shyla; “Garbage Catcher”, Coco; “Little Worker”, Kahlio, Basha and Ari. Everyone is feeling that relentless creep of plastic that is threatening to consume us, the consumers. I...
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...
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