working in Claudy Jongstra's studio
I was thinking about Claudy Jongstra, an amazing felt artist who makes monumental felt pieces and draws attention to landscape, disappearing flora and fauna and how to care for our common home better. She has her own flock of sheep and runs a biodynamic farm. Here she grows the plants which she uses to dye the fibers. With this incorporation of the whole proces I think she is an artist educator, which was the reason I contacted her. When I did, she offered me to work at her s
#Thanks for being an artist, Deeyah Khan,
Deeyah Khan Deeyah Khan is a two-time Emmy Award-winning and twice BAFTA-nominated documentary film director; she is the founder of Fuuse, a media and arts company that puts women, people from minorities, and third-culture kids at the heart of telling their own stories. In 2016, she became the first UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for artistic freedom and creativity. Born in Norway to immigrant parents of Pashtun and Punjabi ancestry, Deeyah’s experience of the beauty and the chal
