Art can be a way to create spaces that embrace citizens in vulnerable situations. In Middelfart, designers and craft artists are developing a waiting area for the new local hospital, where everyone should feel comfortable and want to be. The project was initiated by Middelfart Municipality and the Danish Arts Foundation's project support committee for craft artists and design.
What is it like to build an international career and return to Denmark after 24 years abroad? Anders Herwald Ruhwald and Marie Herwald Hermann talk about their individual and joint journey to the USA and back again.
Two trips to Mexico have had a crucial impact on the textile artist's expression. In this interview, she talks about her fascination with Mexican visual culture.
‘Glass becomes a metaphor for a world that balances between fragility and strength, and the theme is perfectly realised through the material. - Marie-Louise Høstbo has visited Glas - Museum of Glass Art in Ebeltoft.
Sara Mirkhani is a ceramist from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She points to an unfortunate hierarchisation of the arts in Denmark and points out that we must protect the professionalism that comes with the title of craft artist (kunsthåndværker).
The Wild Spinning Mill in Odsherred produces not only wool in wild qualities for artisans and designers. The 'by-products' from the Spinning Mill are local life and employment, experience building for young designers, and projects where families from the city gain a better understanding of rural life.
As a weaver, she keeps the threads tight, and as a textile artist she works uniquely with the sculptural potential of threads and the possibilities of colour. But in the three new works created at Biblioteket Rentemestervej in Copenhagen NV, Sofia Hagström Møller has shared the art production with three different groups of children and young people. Here she talks about her experience of making cultural encounters the material in artistic processes.
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