NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER | CURATOR WALKTHROUGHS

Please join us on Saturday, September 5th & September 16 a curatorial walkthroughs of The Cold Stitch by Ragna Froda, Co-curator and Director of New York Textile Month. Purchase Tickets ABOUT THE CURATOR Ragna Froda is an Icelandic artist, curator, and educator with a background in fashion/textile design. Festival Director of New York Textile Month since 2020. A receiver of various grants for her work and projects, and her contribution to the arts. Her work focuses on the process of making, working with colors and textures, and the history and culture of symbols and patterns in textiles. With a strong passion for textiles, innovation, and craft, storytelling through hybrid layers of craft and technology is the foundation of Ragna´s practice. Early in her career, she ran her fashion and textile studio in Reykjavík Iceland. In the past 15 years, she has been living in New York, Berlin and Reykjavik. In Reykjavik, she was head of Textiles at Reykjavik School of Visual Arts and is currently living in New York where she runs her studio practice and works as the director of Edelkoort Inc and New York Textile Month.