{"id":2791,"date":"2023-12-18T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T09:23:12","slug":"arctic-highways-opens-in-seattle-on-18th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/arctic-highways-opening-in-seattle-in-august-18-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Olof Marsa, one of the 12 artists in Arctic Highways, is the Stena Foundation Cultural Fellow for 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><em>\u201dJust sitting at a desk has never worked for me, I need to be in a workshop and get to work with my hands.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year, the foundation awards scholarships to artists, musicians, actors and other art practitioners who have distinguished themselves through their art and are all connected to Gothenburg. One of the scholarship recipients in 2023 is Olof Marsa.<\/p>\n<p>Reasoning<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the artistic universe of Olof Marsja, history, S\u00e1mi craft traditions, the present, and the future meet without any hierarchy. The three-dimensional, sculptural works are often composed of completely different, seemingly irreconcilable materials. Sawed, hewn, or carved details in wood continue into metal, glass, textiles, plastic, gypsum, leather, or reindeer hide. Processed surfaces are joined to found objects or natural discoveries and united in a suggestive and playful assemblage technique where the contradictory and changeable set the imagination in motion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dAtt bara sitta vid ett skrivbord har aldrig fungerat f\u00f6r min del, jag m\u00e5ste vara i en verkstad och f\u00e5 jobba med h\u00e4nderna.\u201d Varje \u00e5r delar stiftelsen ut stipendier till konstn\u00e4rer, musiker, sk\u00e5despelare och andra konstut\u00f6vare, som utm\u00e4rkt sig genom sin konst och som alla har en anknytning till G\u00f6teborg. En av stipendiaterna 2023 \u00e4r [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testar","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctichighways.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}