Ragna Froda

Edelkoort Inc.

Director

Description

Ragna Froda is the director of Edelkoort Inc. New York and New York Textile Month. An Icelandic artist, curator, and educator with a background in fashion and textile design, she has received various grants for her contributions to the arts. Ragna’s work focuses on the process of making, exploring colors, textures, and the history and culture of symbols and patterns in textiles. With a strong passion for innovation and craft, her practice merges storytelling with hybrid layers of craft and technology. Early in her career, she ran her own fashion and textile studio in Reykjavík. Over the past 15 years, she has lived in New York, Berlin, and Reykjavik, where she was head of Textiles at the Reykjavik School of Visual Arts. Currently based in New York, she continues to run her studio practice while directing Edelkoort Inc. and New York Textile Month.