Ragna Froda is an Icelandic, Artist, curator, and educator with a background in fashion/ textile design. 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.  

TALK: Curating Craft at the Stockholm Craft week in 2023.

A Conference on Curating Contemporary Craft.

On October 4, 250 people attended Curating Craft, a full-day conference focused on the subject of curating contemporary craft. Curating Craft marked the opening of the five-year anniversary edition of Stockholm Craft Week, featuring participants from the Nordic countries and the United States.

Moderator: Evelina Hedin (SE) • Project manager and curator
Evelina Hedin is an international coordinator at the Swedish Crafts Centre in Stockholm and was previously director of Gustavsbergs Konsthall. She is also a textile artist and curator within the field of craft.