Seyðisfjörður Print Workshop is a collaborative project dedicated to offering professional printmaking facilities and taught courses for local and visiting artists and students of all age groups. The new facilities, established in 2021/2022 with two grants from the Incentive Fund, are housed in Öldugata 14 and offer rentable space and equipment for silkscreen, intaglio (linocut, woodcut, etching), letterprint and various hand printing techniques. They are replacing the shared printmaking facilities, which were located in the Technical Museum of East Iceland and were completely destroyed in the landslides of December 2020 (see our archived page about the old print workshop here). […]
Articles by: Skaftfell Residency
Dear You art exchange project with Arlene Tucker 2021-2022
Arlene Tucker (USA/Taiwan/Finland) is an artist based in Joutsa, Finland. She has been artist in residence at Skaftfell in September 2021 and March 2022, supported by the Nordic Baltic Mobility Programme (Nordic Culture Point). Since her first residency in September, Arlene has been working with groups of children at the Seyðisfjörður School (both primary school and kindergarten level), connecting them with school classes in the Ukraine, Greenland, Czech Republic, and the USA through her Dear You art exchange project. Throughout the past months the children have been exchanging artworks by post, and have been meeting and interacting online, following a set of […]