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The Art´n Fiber® residency grant covers a short-term residency stay and focuses on international exchange and cooperation.

The fully funded stay is addressed to the professional textile/fiber artists and those with equally active artistic commitment. The targeted group is textile/fiber artists living in Europe outside Sweden.

The residency was established in 2022 on the initiative of textile/fiber artist Katriina Flensburg and it is run in close cooperation with and support from the Region Uppsala and Uppsala Municipality/City. The location of the residency is the Quilt Academy of Sweden facilities.

Except for the funded stay a limited number of weeks is made available for bookings by individual artists, artist couples, or colleagues in search of a short period studio space/getaway for work with projects within the field of fiber art. Extern funding or personal payment is required. Please see Visits & Stays and be welcome to contact us for any further information.

The 2025 Art´n Fiber® residency grant/fellowship will be announced in mid-spring of 2025 - stay tuned!

Recipients

The selection committee of 2024 was pleased to announce fiber artist Alina Kopytsia, Ukraine as the recipient of the year´s Art'n Fiber® residency grant. For the committee statement and a slide presentation over her stay please see the presentation below. Recipients of the 2022- 23 grants, fiber artists Fabia Delise, Italy and Dorothy Wedderburn, the Netherlands are presented on page "Previous recipients".

Alina Kopytsia

The 2024 recipient of the Art´n Fiber® Residency Fellowship

Motivation by the selection committee:

" Alina Kopytsia is a versatile artist who embraces the possibilities provided by the textile media. Her solid art education and choice of methods are serving as a sturdy base for her expression, consisting mainly of textile collage. Combined with her personal standpoints they have provided her with means, confidence and causes to her visual questioning of the power structures and social norms. While textile materials and approaches have often been ignored in conventional art connections as “women´s work”, Kopytsia´s family background with generations serving in the textile industry seems to rather have strengthened her prejudice-free relationship to the fabrics and sewing as an inviting and sufficient medium of art.

Kopytsia finds inspiration from subjects such as human emotions, physical and mental boundaries, social, economic- and disruptive tensions and gender identity. Her series of appliqued pictures with skilled use of materials and sewing techniques are serial picture-like narratives where the viewer is invited to explore frozen moments and thoughts evoking close-ups of human life and existence. As part of her Art´n Fiber® residency Alina Kopytsia provides a workshop with the subject "textile storytelling". We are thrilled to welcome her and look forward to seeing her work during her residency! "

A slide peek into the residency of 2024

Alina Kopytsia