Art & Design alum Serafina Kennedy (BFA’23) received a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program allowing her to spend nearly a year in Boda Glasbruk, a village in a remote densely forested southern region of Sweden. While there, Kennedy worked with The Glass Factory to learn graal, a decorative etching process.
“I am interested in the similarities between glass etching and calligraphy ink drawing,” Kennedy says. “At the end of my Fulbright residency, I exhibited the graal works that I created at the Glass Factory alongside the landscape drawings I made inspired by the Swedish landscapes around me. My goal for the exhibition was to capture the spirit of allemansrätten, Sweden’s public right to access certain public or privately owned lands, lakes and rivers for recreation and exercise, through landscape depictions and nature motifs, while comparing the similarities between ink drawing and graal.”
Read more about Kennedy’s time abroad—and her experience at Mason Gross—on Rutgers Today.
Image credit: Courtesy of Serafina Kennedy