Skaftfell’s artist in residence Anna Vaivare has been teaching a comics drawing workshop for children from 10-14 years old. The workshop was co-organized with Signý Jónsdóttir from Seyðisfjarðarskóli’s after school program and took place on May 10, 2021. The children learned to develop a story line, invent characters, draw their story and present it to their classmates, and they participated with great enthusiasm! Anna Vaivare is an artist from Latvia mostly working in illustration and other graphic forms of transmitting stories and experiences. She started her professional career as an architect after graduating from Riga Technical University Faculty of Architecture […]
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Anna Margrét Ólafsdóttir – Mirror mirror
May 11 – July 25, 2021, West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro Open Wed-Fri from 12:00-22:00 and Sat-Sun from 16:00-22:00. In the year 2019 Anna Margrét dressed as Snow White for a hundred days from January 23rd to May 3rd. The performance was a part of her graduation piece from the Iceland University of the Arts and was inspired by three stories: the adventure of the princess Snow White, an art work about the real Snow White, and a story about the original Snow White from Siglufjörður. In Real Snow White by Pilvi Takala the artist dresses up as Snow White […]