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Art´n Fiber® residency grant (short term fellowship) focuses on international exchange and cooperation.

The fully funded stay targets professional textile/fiber artists and those with equally active artistic commitment. The goal area is Europe outside the borders of Sweden.

The residency was established in 2022 on initiative of textile/fiber artist Katriina Flensburg and is run in close cooperation with and support from the Region Uppsala and Uppsala Municipality/City. The residency is located tin he Quilt Academy of Sweden facilities. Except the funded stay a limited number of weeks is made available for bookings by individual artists, artist couples or colleagues seeking 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 further information

Recipient of the 2024 Art'n Fiber® residency grant was fiber artist Alina Kopytsia, Ukrain - see the selection committee statement and slide presentation (below). For the 2022-2023 resipients, fiber artists Fabia Delise and Dorothy Wedderburn, please see previous recipients

The open call of the next Art´n Fiber® fellowship grant will be announced in the mid-spring of 2025 - stay tuned!

Alina Kopytsia

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

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