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SUMMARY:NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER: THE COLD STITCH
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House\, in partnership with New York Textile Month\, is pleased to present the third iteration of NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER\, an exhibition\, workshop series\, and symposium highlighting contemporary Nordic Textiles\, coinciding with NY Textile Month in New York City. Featuring an exhibition in the Scandinavia House gallery\, the program includes artist talks\, a reception\, and hands-on workshops. The exhibition opens on Friday\, September 4\, to Wednesday\, September 16\, 2026. More details will be announced shortly. \nTHE COLD STITCH is a Nordic textile collaboration project co-organized by Ragna Froda (ISL/US)\, Director of New York Textile Month\, and Emily Stoddart (CA)\, manager of exhibitions and community programs at Scandinavia House\, New York. The exhibition has been curated by Ragna Froda (ISL/US). \nABOUT THE COLD STITCH\nIn the Nordic countries\, stitching has long been more than decoration or domestic craft. It is a necessity\, a form of storytelling\, survival\, memory\, and care. In landscapes shaped by cold climates and long winters\, textiles have become vessels of warmth\, protection\, repair\, and continuity\, carrying traces of everyday life and cultural identity across generations. \nTHE COLD STITCH brings together artists from across Scandinavia whose practices engage with textiles as both material and language. Through quilting\, patchwork\, collage\, weaving\, hand embroidery\, sculptural textiles\, and visible and invisible stitching\, this exhibition explores how textile traditions have continued to evolve within contemporary art. The exhibition’s title refers both to the geography of the North\, the relationship with textiles and the act of stitching itself. \nA stitch repairs\, connects\, layers\, and transforms. It binds fragments together while allowing histories\, emotions\, reflections on the political climate\, and personal narratives to remain visible. Echoing this feature\, many of the works in the exhibition embrace reuse and transformation\, giving discarded fabrics\, garments\, yarns\, and textile remnants new meaning through the artistic process. \nTHE COLD STITCH celebrates textile art as a living and evolving practice deeply rooted in the cultures of the North\, where there is a strong tradition of working with textiles as an art form and where stitching continues to mend\, preserve\, and reimagine the world around us. \nBanner image credit: Ellen Dynebrink\, Kiyoshi Yamamoto\, Nora Strand\, Lee Jensen\, and Heidi Hankaniemi \nTEXTILE TAKEOVER is presented in partnership with New York Textile Month.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/textile-takeover-the-cold-stitch/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER | STITCHING CIRCLE
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will join three celebrated Nordic textile artists\, Thórunn Elísabet (Tótalisa)\, Nora Martine Hjelle Strand\, and Andrea Magdalena Jónsdottir\, all of whom work with embroidery and stitching in a range of ways\, and are included in NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER: The Cold Stitch. Meet them\, spend time with them\, and learn with them\, needle in hand. \nAt the heart of this year’s Nordic Textile Takeover is the tradition of gathering\, and learning alongside one another. Bringing embroidery back to its social roots\, this workshop will create a meeting point\, wherein stories and skills are shared through the act of creation. \nThroughout this workshop and gathering\, you will have the opportunity to engage with all three artists\, learning about their respective practices\, as well as different stitches and stitching techniques\, experiencing the way in which the act of stitching in community can become a platform for the exchange of knowledge. \nPurchase Tickets \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \n \nThórunn Elísabet (Tótalisa) is an artist and costume/set designer based in Reykjavik\, Iceland\, whose career spans more than four decades across theatre\, film\, and fine art. As a visual artist\, Thorunn Elisabet is known for her storytelling through textiles\, transforming repurposed fabrics\, garments\, and old cloth into large-scale quilts and sculptural works that give discarded materials new meaning and value. Her practice reflects a lifelong instinct for giving material history a second life. She has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions and is a member of both The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists and The Icelandic Actors and Drama Guild. She recently received the distinguished GRIMAN Honorary Award for both costume/set design and her curatorial work through her successful career. Her life and work have also been the subject of two published books: I Love Being Alive – A Testimony of a Unique Icelandic Artist and She Is My Sweetheart For 50 Years. \n  \n \nNora Martine Hjelle Strand is a Norwegian artist based in Bergen\, Norway. Her practice centers on processing memories and emotions through physical action. This is the starting point for her autobiographical textile works\, which are built through repetitive\, time-consuming techniques such as weaving and hand-quilting. Strand is interested in how we are connected as human beings\, and how experience shapes the way we live – a theme she explores both directly\, through text\, and indirectly\, through color and imagery. Every work begins with the personal. The finished piece becomes a physical trace of the internal process behind it: every thread holds a thought\, every stitch a memory. \n  \n  \nAndrea Magdalena Jónsdóttir is a visual artist based in Reykjavík\, Iceland. Her medium is textile and in particular hand embroidery. Her work explores situations where something is not at its right place\, or something is missing but at the same time it appears familiar in the context of the setting. In recent work\, Andrea works with her own memory notes\, found text and mending. For her\, working with thread offers tactile connection with the subject\, in a slow but mindful process. Andrea has a BA degree in Anthropology\, she studied visual art and design at the Iceland University of the Arts and holds an MA degree in Art Education from the same university. She has worked as an education and mediation specialist at the Reykjavík Art Museum and currently she teaches visual art at Fjölbrautaskólinn in Breiðholt\, collage in Reykjavík\, Iceland. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nordic-textile-takeover-stitching-circle/
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