Sunday, August 7 at 16:30, Herðubreið Skaftfell warmly welcomes Rachel Simmons, our artist in residence for the month of August! This Sunday afternoon Rachel will show her work FLOCK in the Herðubreið gallery and introduce her practice and the workshop she will host later this month for children and parents in Seyðisfjörður. Rachel Simmons is an American artist-educator who teaches foundations, printmaking and book arts at Rollins College, an innovative liberal arts institution in Winter Park, Florida. She began her teaching career after earning her MFA in Painting & Drawing from Louisiana State University. Rachel specializes in book arts & printmaking, and her […]
2022
Reading with A. Kendra Greene
Saturday, July 16, 16:00. The Roth Corner, Skaftfell Bistro Skaftfell invites you to a book reading and signing with A. Kendra Greene, writer, artist, and author of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland´s Most Unusual Museums (Penguin Books). Books will be available for purchase at the event. “Delightful… Exuberant… With each chapter Greene circles around her subject as if viewing it in a vitrine, approaching it from a different angles… The book is shot through with glee and irreverence.” –The Guardian