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We are extending the application period for all three studios belonging to Ricklundgården’s residence until Sunday, April 13.
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We have received a really good number of applications, but it is a bit unfortunate that this round there has been a really high application pressure and a large concentration in the autumn months, so we encourage interested parties to also apply at other times of the year.

It is still possible to apply to Folkes Ateljé October, December 2025 and June and August 2026.
A little scattered opportunities in the Annex and the Writer’s Cottage. Please fill in 3 possible time options in the application form.
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If you are applying from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, MARK your application with:
Residence 25/26.
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Before you fill out the application form, carefully read our regulations, which can be found on our website under “ART IN RESIDENCE” < APPLICATION. The application must be sent digitally as a PDF BEFORE April 13, 2025 to our email: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com Responses to all artists will be sent out in the latter part of May. • The final decision will be made in communication with the artist and the organization (well in advance) before the estimated arrival. • New for this year is that it is also possible to apply to our Writer's Cottage during certain months of the year. • A warm welcome with your application!

Together, Ilar and Anna-Karin have had a residency in Folke’s studio during the month of March.
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Ilar has worked with landscape pictures during her time at Ricklundgården. She has experimented with beeswax as a surface treatment on photographs.
“- I have two different themes in my art, one is more political if I think something is wrong or unfair in society. The other is landscape pictures, which have become almost like meditation.
I have tried to get away from the fact that as a photographer you have to do things a certain way when framing photos. Now I only use wood and beeswax.”
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Anna-Karin works with a technique where charcoal is always the basis.
“- Based on four directions and ideas, I have tested and explored what I should continue to work with. Sometimes you have to end up in the stage where you stand completely still, in order to then move on.”
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Ilar is and works as a photographer and artist. Anna-Karin is an artist and works as a nurse.
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We at Ricklundgården are extremely grateful and happy that Ilar Gunilla and Anna-Karin have chosen to come to us. Their energy and passion for art is contagious. We would like to thank all participants for the very interesting and moving Artist Talk last Thursday!

Since March 16th, the artist duo has been working in Annexet with the project, working title: Deavam / The Memory of the Place.
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The project is about depicting the stories of different places and territories through yarn and the body. “In previous work, we have dyed yarn from four different places that are important to our family’s history around Vilhelmina and Åsele municipality.”
– “During the time that the residency at Ricklundgården has taken place, we have sketched, planned and tested ideas for the work that will be created.
The work will consist of a fabric, choreography and soundscape by Cicely Irvine when it is ready.”
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Linnea works as a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Stockholm.
Ida-Isak is a textile artist based in Luleå and Övertorneå.
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We at Ricklundgården are very happy and proud to have hosted this artist duo during these weeks in varying beautiful spring and winter weather.

If you want great working opportunities, space and lots of daylight, take the chance to apply to the Annexet studio now.
Late drop-out makes it possible for you as an artist to live and work for 14 days in Saxnäs with us at Ricklundgården.

Send us an email and tell us a little about yourself and your need to work in our studio.

It’s an incredible time now with cold nights and nice days! info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

The application for residency is open!

Now it´s time to plan for new residency stays. This round, you will apply from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, MARK your application with:
Residence 25/26.

Before you fill out the application form, carefully read our regulations, which can be found here on our website under “ART IN RESIDENCE” < APPLICATION. The application must be sent digitally as a PDF BEFORE March 31, 2025 to our email: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com Responses to all artists will be sent out in the later part of May. The final decision will be made in communication with the artist and the organization (well in advance) before the estimated arrival. New for this year is that it is also possible to apply to our Writer's Cottage during certain months of the year. ~ Read more under Art in residence! ~ A warm welcome with your application!

Greetings from, and best wishes to, Katarina Hamberg who now lives and works in the Annex!

It’s a beautiful time now and it’s reflected in her watercolors.

Many thanks @alixstadtbaeumer for your nice and engaging Artist talk last Thursday!

Always just as rewarding and interesting to take part in artists’ work and hear about how it looks / can be depending on conditions, geographical location and work opportunities.

Thanks also to all visitors!
We wish everyone a really nice week!

The heritage fund project KRAM & EMMA’s art education workshop does not only work in Saxnäs!
Every other week our art educator is in Dikanäs at the school with the students there and every other week he is at Fritidsgården in Vilhelmina.

We depend on good cooperation to be able to be in three different locations in our vast municipality.
Distance Saxnäs – Dikanäs, 73 km one way.
Distance Saxnäs – Vilhelmina 90 km one way.

We are extremely happy that it works so well with (all) of our partners and think it is nice and important that all children get to experience, perform, see and hear about art & culture!

The picture shows Kristoffer and several students from the school in Dikanäs who are working on the completion of their film project.

A big THANK YOU @arvsfonden for believing in what we do and making it possible for us to exist in Västerbotten’s interior & mountain world.

On Thursday this week, just in time for afternoon coffee at EMMAS, Ricklundgården proudly presents; Alix Stadtbäumer!
Alix is our current resident and working artist who lives in Folkes Studio.

Artist talk between 2-3 p.m.
Warm welcome!
ART IS FOR EVERYONE! ! !

This Thursday will be the premiere of our afternoon coffee sessions!

In addition to coffee, these times will also contain cultural elements, it will of course vary depending on the season, what else we are working on educationally or which artists work in our residence.

Keep an eye on our channels! We announce artist presentations and the like separately, but as far as possible, the idea is that these should also be on Thursdays.

Hope to see you on February 13!

We have received a cancellation in our Annex studio in April, yes, things can arise and there can be obstacles.

• Annex Studio free 1-14 April. The cost is SEK 3,000.

• Fill in our application form  and submit your application as soon as possible and tell us briefly why you want to work in our residence during these times.

A big THANK YOU to Marieke & Madelen for the open studio you both invited to yesterday! Can’t get too much of the good conversation and wonderful, amazing art!
• Thanks to everyone who came and made the evening rich with thoughts, reflections and dialogue

Now let the snow fall again and have a nice weekend!

Welcome to Open Studio, Thursday January 23  in the Annex up at Ricklundgården at 19.00!

Dutch artist Marieke van Rooy, partner of Mangano van Rooy https://www.instagram.com/mangano_vanrooy/, from Amsterdam, wants to share her artistic research on the importance of nature and the individual connection to nature in times when the climate is under pressure.

“This is a newly started research project and Marieke would like to exchange ideas with Kultsjödal residents about our contact with nature, we who live in southern Lapland, after all. The concept of nature on a personal level is closely linked to experiences from childhood, don’t you agree?”

The school term started about a week ago and it feels so much fun with children at EMMAS again
The high school practices music / band playing on Wednesdays before lunch and on Tuesdays class 4-9 are welcome from 15.30 – 17.00.
In addition to that, our art teacher is also at regular intervals in Dikanäs and Vilhelmina.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, the children get to work in art education with our artist-in-residence who lives in the Annex, her name is Marieke and she comes from the Netherlands. Kristoffer is also of course with us and on site! The time that applies tomorrow is directly after school at 3:30 p.m. and until 5 p.m. WELCOME! ! !
(Feel free to bring fruit or candy if your stomach needs energy).

Have a continued nice day

The sun rises higher and higher every day, which makes one happy

We have been both shocked, surprised, overjoyed, proud and many more emotions about the fantastic turnout in connection with our show “The little show with the big heart”. Almost a week has passed since @marsfjallmountainlodgeab was filled with people who came to see and hear!
A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came, everyone who helped in some way both before and after and thanks to the Lodge that wanted to receive us!
A big THANK YOU to our small but naggingly good ensemble! WOW, you guys were the best at it!

We look forward to a continued rain-free winter and lots of new fun activities / performances / artist talks etc.

The one who waits for something good

We at EMMA’s art education workshop, under the auspices of the KRAM Heritage Fund project, have been working all autumn with our small but very dedicated ensemble.
This has resulted in something we call “The little show with the big heart”.
The premiere takes place at Marsfjäll Mountain Lodge on Friday, January 10.

Book food and your place by calling 0940-70003.

We really hope that we will see each other in the new year and that our little show can set a nice mark and a fun start to 2025.

-big THANK YOU to everyone who came on Monday!

Santa’s Christmas Eve food with classic side dishes was on the menu and the evening ended with Bingo!

AN EXTRA BIG THANK YOU to Niklas Andersson who helped us with the porridge! We and all the guests who ate really appreciate your cooking skills and willingness to help. Thanks!
THANKS also to Jonathan Johansson who helped us before serving, your effort was without exaggeration, invaluable.

We have been so incredibly happy that our idea with the Dinner Club has been appreciated. On each occasion we have had full tables, a hall and entrance flooded with clothes and shoes and there has been a loud murmur of people talking to each other. Thanks everyone!
~ We welcome feedback or suggestions for ideas about our arrangements. Have you loved something, want more of a specific event, do you miss us doing something? Please send us an email to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com

Now there are only two occasions of Advent coffee at EMMAS, tomorrow from 08.30 and Thursday 19/12 at the same time.
Tonight is also the last opportunity with the Craft Club with Anna, from 18.00.
Then there will be some Christmas time off during the red days to start with a big bang in the form of a small show, Friday 10 January at the Lodge. More information about this will be available on our channels shortly.

Many thanks to our artist in residence Kyle McKenzie for your interesting talk on public paintings / murals.
Very interesting to learn about the importance of art in, for us, another part of the world. Kyle has traveled here from Joplin, Missouri, USA, to work on his art.
We were very inspired and it would have been fantastically exciting if Kultsjödalen and Vilhelmina municipality also had a large, public and perhaps historical mural of some kind.

Thanks to Saxnäs Fjällskola who participated.

The artist talk took place yesterday afternoon at EMMAS in Saxnäs.

We are approaching the last Dinnerclub for this year! Food creators for December is a collaboration between Niklas Andersson and EMMAS staff

There are a limited number of places, so pre-registration is required and it is first come, first served!

ATTENTION! The food is at cost price and payment is made to Ricklundgården’s swish.
~ Registration is made before Thursday 5/12 to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com

EXTRA! Christmas bingo edition!

(On four occasions until Christmas, we open our Dinnerclub, through our Heritage Fund project KRAM “Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself”. An opportunity to gather, meet and socialize around a meal that each month’s food team creatively plans and cooks).

Warm welcome!

And then the Christmas market was over for this time

Thank you to everyone involved, all visitors, the student council with teachers, parents and students who sold terrific baked gods in connection with the art exhibition that was in Folkes Ateljé last Saturday.

Thanks to everyone who gets involved in one way or another, big or small, to organize activities that inspire and bring people together.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Thanks also to Tove and Danae who worked so well with all the children and for the hospitality in the studio on Saturday.

Now it is the last week of November and the beautiful picture of the house is from today November 26th  -2024.
Now we await the first advent sunday!

Many thanks Branca Trigo for your fine performance yesterday at EMMAS

Branca talked about her language, traditions, similarities and differences that exist in one and the same country and about her artistry.
At the end of the presentation, Branca read self-written poems in her native Galician.

Branca is our artist-in-residence living in the Annex now in November.

Ricklundgården proudly presents; Tove Moller and Danae Valenza.

They are here with their project “MOLN that carries our thoughts”, under the direction of the cultural association Historieberättarna.

• “This is an exhibition of different sculptural clouds made of paper. Created in several places in Sweden, by adults and children. The words, the messages written on each piece of paper are about peace and how to prepare for a better world. Everyone has been allowed to think completely freely about how they want the world to be better”.

• During Tove and Danae’s work at Ricklundgården with this project, children and young people from Saxnäs school, Dikanäs school and children and young people from the leisure center in Vilhelmina have participated.

• Tove Möller is an artist and works with sculpture and sound art. She is also an art educator. Tove lives in a village called Östaröd in Skåne.

Danae Valenza is an artist who comes from Australia but now lives in Stockholm. Danae has worked as an assistant professor at the Royal Academy of Arts and is also an exhibition technician who works with various art exhibitions.

• WARM WELCOME to the exhibition in Folkes Ateljé this Saturday between 11-15.

The museum is also open at the same times and new for this year is that the Student Council from Saxnäs Fjällskola will be selling coffee with us!

• We have limited space for cars up at house so we ask everyone with healthy legs to park down by the road in our car park or another place nearby. So that the space for cars up at Ricklundgården can be available to those who need it most. Thanks!

Branca Trigo Cabaleiro is a Galician writer and editor.

Her work is connected to formal experiments and the connection of literature to other disciplines such as music and visual arts. This year she published her third book of poetry, trans0.

In addition to the written word, she devotes herself to cultural activities, such as collaborating in the literature section of the magazine O Salto, organizing the Open Mic event Cerimonia de Gaivotas and coordinating poetry workshops in schools and cultural associations.

Writer, language and poetry performance
Branca will talk about his work as a writer and editor, as well as offer a short poetry performance in the Galician language.

Thursday 21 November
at 9.00-10.00
Location: EMMAS

Ricklundgården open at 11-16 during Saxnäs Christmas Market, Saturday 23 November

At the same time, an art exhibition is taking place in Folkes Ateljé with the project “CLOUDS that carry our thoughts”.

Free!

ATTENTION! The advertisement from the Vilhelmina art association that is published in this week’s Vilhelmina Aktuellt is a bit misleading; Ricklundgården opens at 11am, not 10am
The Christmas market itself, on the other hand, runs between 10am and 4pm.

Warm welcome!

We still have a place available in the Annex in January, 14-27 January 2025.

• Send your application to info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com as soon as possible and tell us briefly why you want to work in our residence during these weeks in the new year!

• You can find more information about the Annex under the tab Art in Residence

November’s Dinnerclub is approaching!
The maestro of the month is Annelie Wikström
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There are a limited number of places, so pre-registration is required and it is first come, first served!

ATTENTION! The food is at cost price and payment is made to Ricklundgården’s swish.
~ Registration is made before Thursday 7/11 to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com
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(On four occasions until Christmas, we open our Dinnerclub, through our Heritage Fund project KRAM “Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself”. An opportunity to gather, meet and socialize around a meal that each month’s food team creatively plans and cooks).
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Warm welcome!

Enter Thursday 14 November in the calendar! And at 7 p.m.
It is when Bottleneck John are performing at EMMAS and we are looking forward to bluesy tones.

In collaboration with @riksteaternvilhelmina
• LOCATION: EMMAS in Saxnäs

Staff from EMMA’s art education workshop are on site in Uppsala on the occasion of SKR’s cultural conference. Christer (project manager KRAM) lectures on Culture for health!

On four occasions until Christmas, we open our Dinnerclub, through our Heritage Fund project KRAM “Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself”. An opportunity to gather, meet and socialize around a meal that each month’s food team creatively plans and prepares.

Now it’s almost time for the 2nd occasion!

There are a limited number of places, so pre-registration is required and it is first come, first served!

ATTENTION! The food is at cost price and payment is made to Ricklundgården’s swish.

Registration is made before Thursday 10/10 to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com

Warm welcome!

It is not so easy for everyone to get out to various events or functions, so we took some equipment with us and visited the nursing home in Saxnäs yesterday.

~ A little lunchtime music, while the first snow of the season gently fell…

Culture is for everyone

Ricklundgården proudly presents @ingawiktoria from Lannavaara in Kiruna municipality.
Inga-Wiktoria works as an artist and paints and works with duodji.

She is also an art teacher and Sami teacher and has studied leather & textiles at the Sami education center in Jokkmokk.
“Here in the annex, I have been working on paintings that will be shown at a solo exhibition in January in Oslo.
It has been peaceful to be here and I have thought a lot about the landscape, including how people traveled by boat over Kultsjön in the old days.”

Inga-Wiktoria is with us in residence and has received a scholarship from Swedish Draftsmen.

We humbly thank you for the visit and wish Inga-Wiktoria all the best with the exhibition in Norway, we hope to see you again!

We have had a few cancellations in our studios, yes, things can arise and there can be obstacles.

Folke studio available:
December 1-27th 2024. The cost is SEK 5,500.
January 1-27th 2025. The cost is SEK 5,500.

Annex studio available:
January 1-27th 2025. The cost is SEK 5,500.

Submit your application as soon as possible to info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com and tell us briefly why you want to work in our residence during these times.

Det har varit en bra sommar i vårt museum men nu är det tid för höst
Sommaröppettiderna är inaktuella sedan en tid tillbaka men vi tar gladeligen emot förfrågningar om guidade visningar året runt.
Dessa sker då i överenskommelse med personal på plats och helst inom ramen för ordinarie arbetstider om inte annat är avtalat.
~ Mer info om öppettider, priser och kontaktinfo hittar du här på vår hemsida ~
Kontakt/ Öppettider
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På bilden visas undertecknad (Tina) i fint sällskap med @penricklund och hans mamma @bricklund från en mycket fin visning av museet och kringliggande byggnader tidigare i sommar.
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Tack för besöket till er båda och till era medföljande gäster som var med, hoppas det inte blir så länge till nästa gång!

Bottleneck John will be at EMMAS on November 14.

Johan “bottleneck John” Eliasson was born and raised in a small Jämtland community called Lit, in the middle of Sweden. This area is also a hub for several small rivers that form a “delta”. So you can tell with a twinkle in your eye that BJ grew up in the Litsdeltat, haha!

BJ: “..I always seem to be drawn back in time and space to the Mississippi Delta circa the 1920’s and 30’s.. I guess this is the music that touches my soul the most?! It must be, I have haven’t found any music yet that can match these old 78’s in terms of soul, feeling and honesty..   What I never do is exactly copy the blues musicians and songs of the time but instead try to interpret and bring alive a nearly extinct music form for today’s audience !! It feels great to be able to offer a new old repertoire for contemporary blues enthusiasts..”

A concert that offers delta blues, hokum & spirituals with roots deep down in the Mississippi Delta of the 1920s/30s. Music that is intense, raw and full of tempo but also laid back and emotional!

A musical journey through time with songs by legends such as Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Son House, Charley Patton and Blind Willie Johnson but also own material in this tradition-filled genre. Blues & roots music as it used to sound, a voice and acoustic instruments, a foot stomping the beat on the floor replacing the drums.

Text borrowed from https://www.riksteatern.se

On four occasions until Christmas, we open our Dinnerclub, through our Heritage Fund project KRAM “Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself”. An opportunity to gather, meet and socialize around a meal that each month’s food team creatively plans and prepares.

There are a limited number of places, so pre-registration is required and it is first come, first served!

ATTENTION! The food is at cost price and payment is made to Ricklundgården’s swish.

Registration is made before 5/9 to: emmassaxnas@gmail.com

Warm welcome!

Thank you to everyone who visited us this summer, from near and far!

From now on, it is fine to book guided tours or viewings in the museum Mondays to Thursdays during our regular working hours. See more on the website!

We wish requests for bookings at least 24 hours before to our email; info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

Hold on to summer for a little while longer before we go in and embrace autumn.

Have a nice week!

Open Wednesdays – Saturdays at 10-15.
Wednesdays – guided tours only
Thursdays – Saturdays: guided tours at 10-11.30 and then drop in until 3 p.m.

To book entry and viewing with a guide, send us an email 24 hours in advance to:
visnings.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

ATTENTION! For all information regarding the museum this summer, use the email address mentioned above! This is so that nothing is missed during the holidays.

Together with 19 cultural schools in Västerbotten and Norrbotten, we have received over SEK 14 million to develop new forms of collaboration over a three-year period.

The project goals are about developing working methods, structures and models for inter-municipal employment and inter-regional solutions, regardless of geographical distance, as well as testing the necessary technology for this.

The overall aim of the project is to obtain increased and more equal competence among the regions’ cultural schools, regardless of municipality size and demographics, as well as to develop and test different organizational structures to make available a wider labor market for cultural school staff in rural and sparsely populated areas.

In an extension, this may also have significance for other forms of collaboration and cooperation between the municipalities in northern Sweden.

Emma Ricklund’s foundation, which was the initiator and project seeker for our first big project that was financed by the Postal Code Foundation between 2022 and the end of February this year, could never have dreamed of what big rings on the water it would become.

We BELIEVED in our idea, we dared to bet but if someone had told us that two years later we would be working in yet another new project financed by the Heritage Fund (KRAM) and that we would also be one of the active activities in this large cross-regional EU project from the ESF Council and the regions, we would probably have fallen off the chair.

We are happy for everyone who wants to rejoice with us and rejoice for the cultural development that is now taking place in the mountain world, inland and throughout northern Sweden

The museum’s opening hours and information on how to book a guided tour this summer, as well as where to contact staff on site, can be found on our website;
www.ricklundgarden.com
During the summer we can only be reached via email, the phone also has some time off.

Between 17-20 June, you as a visitor can book a guided tour between 09.00-15.00. This should then be done no later than 24 hours before:
info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

From week 26, our summer opening hours apply, which you can find on our website:
www.ricklundgarden.com

ATTENTION!! From week 26-34, we refer EVERYONE who has questions about the museum to our special “museum email”:
visning.ricklundgarden@gmail.com
This is to reduce the risk of something ending up with someone who is on holiday or in some junk mail.

New for this summer is that on Tuesday 9 & 16 July there will be a waffle café at EMMAS between 10.00-14.00.
EMMAS is located in the middle of Saxnäs, on the other side of the road opposite the store. Feel free to stop by and you’re welcome!

With that, we wish everyone a really nice summer!
Big hug from Tina, Malin, Christer & Kristoffer

The museum opens with its summer hours Wednesday 26/6 at 10.00. Wednesdays during the summer are subject to booked viewings and bookings are made to:

visning.ricklundgarden@gmail.com no later than 24 hours before.

Selectable times these Wednesdays are; 10-11.30 a.m., 12.00-1.30 p.m. and 1.30-3.00 p.m.

Booked viewings beyond the summer are most easily done to:
info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

As a great start to the summer holidays, we are now running a Skatejam, live music, homemade oven-baked pancakes with jam & pork!

Where: The mini ramp in Klimpfjäll
When: Wednesday 12/6
From: 17.30

Anyone who wants is welcome, from our valley but also interested from the entire municipality!

The event is super free, but edibles cost a small penny. Swish only!

ATTENTION!! Bring your own lunch box, cup and fork!

Thanks to KAK for the loan of the ramp, etc. and BIG THANKS to @arvsfonden for making it possible for us to create meaningful leisure time and fantastic culture

From last Thursday’s well-attended “Open studios” at Ricklundgården.

Thank you @mariehellsing_art & @annahardinganna for your generosity, hospitality and for the opportunity to share your art!

We wish you a safe and pleasant journey home and will soon welcome new artists-in-residence who will arrive and work here during the month of June.

Thanks to ALL (no one mentioned, no one forgotten) who participated during the conference “Young people’s right to culture”, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday last week.

Extra thanks to the children who were with us!

Thanks also to our longer-distance guests who contributed interesting and educational presentations of their businesses.

Have a nice week!

Tomorrow, our conference starts, which we lead and implement thanks to our Heritage Fund project (Arvsfondsprojekt) KRAM.

~ Young people’s right to culture! ~

Many thanks to Carina and the high school girls who helped us with the translation of the poster! @vualtjerensaemiensiebrie

Let the conference begin and wish us luck!

We want to collect opinions and thoughts from our children and young people about what they want/need/want in terms of cultural offerings.

Thanks to @arvsfonden for believing in our idea, and to all the participants tomorrow and on Wednesday; See you soon!

Ricklundgården / EMMAS has together with @konstihalland & @hallandskonstmuseum won this year’s educational award!

Motivation of the jury reads:

“With a retro feel, Snow stars and sea kelp bring to life an analog communication – an exchange of letters between north and south. In exchange of natural materials, letters and local stories, young people have shared similarities and differences. An interdisciplinary approach has provided knowledge about how different geographical areas have shaped language and culture. With crafts and art that unite, conversations about cultures have been sparked.”

Thanks to everyone, big and small from the school in Saxnäs who participated during the project and a special thanks to all the children & young people!

In the picture: Pupils, teachers from Saxnäs Fjällskola and staff from Ricklundgården & EMMAS

Thanks also to Postkodstiftelsen who made it possible for us to start the EMMAS project (This work was ongoing during the previous project period where Postkodstiftelsen was a contributor).

Its time to get started again with social gatherings, public education activities and creative initiatives.

Every Thursday for several weeks, with the exception of 9/5, with the final meeting on Thursday 30 May.

Time: 14.00-15.30.

Thank you @arvsfonden for believing in our idea and we are happy to really start our new project KRAM – K- creativity, R- relationships, A- everyone’s equal value, M- courage to be yourself.

Hope to see you on Thursday, we can’t wait!

PS Our nice KRAM logo has been made by the brilliant @mattias_andersson_art 💖 So nice!

Winter is nice, like all seasons have their charm!

Submit your application for residence for the period 1 October – the end of September 2025.

All information is available here on our website under the Art in residence/Application tab

Welcome with your application

Please contact us as soon as possible (info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com) for more information and if you want to work/live as an artist in our accommodation during these months this summer.

You van find the application form and more information on the website under Art-residence/applications/

If you rather would be interested in coming during another period, our application period is open now until the end of March (application period from October 2024 – September 2025).

The time is here to plan for new residency stays. This time, you can apply from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, MARK your application with: Residence 24/25.

Before you fill in the application form, please read our regulations carefully which can be found here on our website under “ART IN RESIDENCE” < APPLICATION. The application is sent digitally as a PDF BEFORE March 31, 2024 to our email: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

We have a couple of cancellations again, yes, things can arise and there can be obstacles.

The Folke Studio available June 1-27th. The price is SEK 5,500.

The Annex Studio available July 1-27th. The price is SEK 5,500.

Submit your application as soon as possible and tell us briefly why you want to work in our residence during these times.

Hurray!

The art educational project ”Snöstjärnor och tångruskor” is one of three finalists when FUISM later this spring awards the Pedagogical Award of the Year.

The project, which took place in collaboration with Ricklundgården / EMMA’s art education workshop & Halland’s art museum / Art in Halland, was part of an exchange program between Halland and Västerbotten, where students from Saxnäs collaborated with students from Halmstad and Laholm.

Cheers and congratulations to everyone involved and especially to all the CHILDREN who participated, now we’re keeping our fingers crossed!

To read a bit more about the project, you can take a look at this page: https://www.konstihalland.se/konstexpressen/

Nominations for all three finalists can be read here: https://fuism.se

We have trained!

We have been certified ~First Aiders~ within MHFA, Mental Health First Aid

This training was developed by Karolinska Institutet and we are grateful and proud that we have participated. We all need help to reduce stigma around mental illness!

We see this training and the new knowledge it has given us as particularly important when we work with children and young people.

We have received a late cancellation in Folkes Ateljé, so if you as an artist want to work creatively in a mountain environment between January 16-29, send us an email to:

info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

Send with CV and a short description of yourself and what you work with.

Merry Christmas from me (Tina) and Santa and a really nice second Advent Sunday from another lovely village in our municipality, namely Skansholm!

Hope you all had a nice weekend and it’s a good time to remind you that on Thursday we have the last ”Thursday open” for this year. One of our dear returning guests wanted us to have a “potluck” this Thursday, so we’re going with it. Everyone who wants, can and has the opportunity brings a pastry of their choice to EMMAS. We’ll also be swapping out our oh-so-fibrous yet sweet waffles for sandwiches instead as a counterbalance to all the sugary goodness that’s also on display. Welcome from 09.30.

Now on Wednesday morning at 08.15 it’s Lucia at the school here in Saxnäs, maybe we’ll see each other?

Monday 18/12 is the Christmas party (Saxnäs Fjällskola) and we will indeed hear samples of students who participated in our music pedagogy at EMMAS. Surely there will also be colorful plays and other wonderful things in addition!

Wednesday 20/12 is the Christmas closing for Ricklundgården/ EMMAS at 18.00 and we invite you to a live music quiz, coffee and a look in the museum. Location: Ricklundgården, the family room on the upper floor.

Teams of a maximum of 4 people and it costs SEK 50/person. Children up to the age of 16 go for free but pay SEK 20 for coffee.

Now awaits a week of baking, planning, practicing and Lucia celebrations!

See you!

On December 27, 28 and 29, it is possible to book guided tours with us!

Every day, the guided tour starts at 10 am and lasts approx. 1.5 hours. Price is SEK 200/person and children up to the age of 16 go free when accompanied by an adult.

Booking of guided tours should be done no later than 6 pm the day before to: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

During Christmas and New Year, we can only be reached via email!

Hope to see you between Christmas and New Year!

As a small finale before Christmas and the new year start, we intend to invite you to a live music quiz at Ricklundgården!

The generous and inviting family room on the upper floor will act as stage, coffee room and living room all in one.

Date and time is Wednesday December 20th at 6 pm. If you are very keen to participate in the quiz itself, you should not arrive later than 6.15pm.

It costs SEK 50 per person, which includes participation in the quiz, coffee and entrance to the museum. Children up to the age of 16 go free but pay SEK 20 for coffee. Only Swish as payment method for this arrangement!

We want to flag that it might get a bit crowded if the number of participants is large, but on the other hand, where there is a will, there is a way!

Spread the word, bring a music-loving friend and come and recharge your artistic batteries just in time before the Christmas frenzy begins!

ATTENTION!!! If you really want to participate but maybe don’t have the opportunity to come to us, you can get in touch, we will try as far as possible to coordinate transport, etc. If you live in the village, maybe we can pick you up!

Welcome, whether you are young or old!

On site with us here in the Annex to work artistically!
Is there interest in an art workshop at the beginning or middle of next week? Get in touch with us right away and we’ll see if we can gather enough people who want to participate, so that we can run a creative raid.
For the curious, Elme has said that she is with us in the morning at EMMAS this Thursday, so a warm welcome from 09.30 for social connection!

As it says in “Vilhelmina Aktuellt” that EMMAS is open 10-16 and Ricklundgården is open 16-18 is wrong!

Our big contribution this Christmas market weekend is EMMAS/Ricklundgården’s party which is on Friday 24/11 at Saxnäsgården starting at 18.00. There will be musical performances by the children who participated in EMMA’s music education, good food and togetherness, and later in the evening there will be live music with Lena & Daniel. The party welcomes everyone, young and old!

By the way, remember to make reservation for the taco buffet no later than Wednesday at 072-5342265 or info@saxnas.se

In addition to that, it is open at EMMAS on Saturday between 11-14. With us you can buy hot chocolate, eat Skumtomtar and take part in a rhyming competition where you can win a small ball of toilet paper. And of course it’s fine to visit us or just come in to warm up without buying anything or participating in the competition.

So on the actual Christmas market day on Saturday, the following applies;

EMMAS open at 11-14

Ricklundgården closed

Ricklundgården will be open one evening later in December, but more information about that will come as we get closer to the actual date.

Now is a good time to celebrate that there is such a nice “vibe” for the culture here in our municipality and that positive things are happening for our children and young people!

We want to share our joy with you and hereby invite you to attend our party here in Saxnäs at Saxnäsgården, Friday November 24!

The evening’s program in general:

At 18.00 – Musical performance by children who participated in EMMA’s music education, in the Foyer.
approx. 18.30 – We sit down at the restaurant
approx. 19-20 – Some people give speeches
21.00 – Musical entertainment with Lena & Daniel, possibility of dancing & partying all evening long.

It is served:
Taco night + dessert
Prices:
Adult SEK 195
Children SEK 95

Contact Saxnäsgården for booking no later than Wednesday 22 November.
0940-37700 or info@saxnas.se

Last Thursday during the fall break, we went to Twin Peaks as a team. The building you see on the right side of Kultsjön’s shoreline when you drive into Saxnäs from Vilhelmina.

The youngest participant was seven years old and the oldest was a little over 80.

We thank Lenita and Ulrika for a nice initiative and for a warm philosophical conversation about nature.

Thanks also to Andreas Andersson for the loan of a very special place. Everyone really appreciated being there!

Community, to be together – nice in all its simplicity!

We found out yesterday.

Today the rest of the world gets to know!

Art and Culture are here to stay!

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From @arvsfonden press release this morning:

“Emma Ricklund’s foundation receives support of roughly 3.1 million from the Heritage Fund for the project “KRAM”

“KRAM (Creativity, Relationships, Everyone’s equal value, Courage to be yourself)” will develop a new cultural-pedagogical working method where children’s and young people’s needs, reflection, wishes and the artistic process are at the center. The project will build three physical art education nodes in Saxnäs, Dikanäs and Vilhelmina and also create an outreach mobile activity based on the new way of working.

– For us, this is more than just a project, this gives our business weight and shows that it has been going on, and tireless work towards an absolutely necessary development is ongoing all the time. Everyone has the right to experience and explore their creation and I am proud to the core that this project lands here in Vilhelmina’s mountain world, says Tina Larsson, director of operations at Ricklundgården.

The project will also give the target group insights into art and culture and its symbiosis with emotional life, and through cultural creation contribute to a more vibrant sparsely populated area in inland and mountain municipalities where the Sami and Swedish cultures live side by side

In order to create a sustainable structure for the method and make the activity accessible to the target group, a collaboration must be developed with the school, the recreation center, student health, the library, associations and with artists who visit Ricklundgården.

– I want to thank all our partners in advance, with whom we will have the pleasure of working together. There are many of us who are passionate about the culture growing stronger and living on, says Tina Larsson.

Emma Ricklund was a visual and textile artist active in the mountain village of Saxnäs. Emma Ricklund’s foundation aims to manage her legacy and promote artistic and other cultural activities by allowing artists to live and work at Ricklundgården in Saxnäs.”

Then we had late cancellations again, yes, things can arise and there can be obstacles.

• Folkes Ateljé free 1-27 November (perfect opportunity to also participate, see and experience Saxnäs Christmas Market). The annex free 1-27 December.

• Submit your application and tell us briefly why you want to work in our residence during these times.

• The picture does not fully reflect what it looks like here now, but it shows part of the annex. At the moment it is stable below zero, sunny and the ice is starting to melt. Today a very nice pre-winter day in other words!

EMMA’s autumn vernissage has had its opening…

We are happy, proud, satisfied, happy and tired.

The band Sonic Squad has performed for the first time and it went really well.

Thank you Postcode Foundation for giving us the opportunity to develop EMMAS! We can state that art and culture in all its forms touch, unite, surprise and are needed!

More media from the exhibition will be publicied later but for now we’ll enjoy the feeling that this was done and turned out as well as it did! Children are amazing!

The exhibition can be seen today, tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.

Thanks to everyone involved, almost no one mentioned but certainly no one forgotten!

Hello our friends!

Due to late cancellations, we now have vacancy in our studios for two spontaneous residencies.

The annex is free from 1-27 November.

Folke’s studio is free from October 16-29.

Prices, more pictures and complete information can be found here on our if you click on Art in residence

For those of you who would like to apply to live in the annex during the month of November (when Saxnäs’ unique Christmas market is in progress), it is a request if you can imagine having an “open studio”, artist talks or other arrangement that is more public.

Send in a summary application and a little bit about yourself to: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com no later than October 12.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please spread the word and share. Thanks!!

May we present this year’s scholarship holder from Konst i Halland who has now completed her residency period with us; Tove Möller! ⭐️

Tove was born and raised in Laholm, Halland, Sweden. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Gerlesborg School of Art.

Tove now lives in Stockholm and works as an artist and library educator.

We asked about Tove’s experience here at Ricklundgården and she said that being here is a big contrast, unlike everyday life at home. “- Here I have seen and understood this place from several perspectives. I have been able to “listen in” properly and I have felt, and feel very welcome here, by the people and by nature!”.

Tove records sound and works with physical materials that are connected to different places and phenomena, and then builds sound installations and sculptures.

My God, how much the Postcode Foundation have meant for us, yes almost everything when we start planning EMMAS almost two years ago!

All of us who work with and at and for EMMAS would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the opportunity to do what we believe in. We still believe that this creative meeting place does, and will, make a big difference for people here in our part of Sweden.

A lot has been done during the course of the project! In these pictures you can see mini-party with costumes, @jan_philip_scheibe when he has an art workshop with the children from the youth center in Vilhelmina, someone learns to play drums, EMMAS gets a visit from Edelvik art school and much more!

Congratulations to Postkodstiftelsen, which turns 20 years old!!

From all of us at EMMAS!

In March 2023, Art in Halland invited visual artists with connections to Halland to apply for a residency grant to Ricklundgården in Saxnäs, (September 15-28). Based on the applications received, the jury has decided that the scholarship will be awarded to Tove Möller.

Tove Möller (b. 1986) grew up in Laholm and today lives and works in Stockholm. Tove is educated at Gerlesborgsskolan in Stockholm and Kungl. Stockholm Academy of Arts.

At the same time that Tove Möller goes to Ricklundgården in Saxnäs, the artist Helena Wikström, based in Västerbotten, comes to Halland with Halmstad as her base. Host for the stay is Halland’s Art Museum and Art in Halland.

In parallel, an educational project is also underway between school classes in Halmstad, Laholm and Saxnäs.

You can read more information about this residency scholarship and our art education project here on our website shortly.

Enter and read the first blog post about our joint project with Art in Halland.

www.konstihalland.se/konstihalland_blogg/

Are you retired or have time to spare? Do you feel like trying to play or sing in a band but perhaps haven’t learned to play an instrument? Or maybe you once played but forgot most of it. In that case, there is now the chance to come to EMMAS without any prior knowledge and together with me Kristoffer, who is a trained music teacher, try playing together, completely unconditional. Have fun together!

The instruments available are drums, guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, piano, keyboard, ukulele and microphones for vocals. (If you own another instrument, you can of course bring it with you)).

The time is Thursdays at 10.30-11.30 after coffee.

There are a limited number of places and instruments, so register your interest before 11/9 with your name and instrument preference to: emmaskristoffer@gmail.com

Write “Band testing” in the subject column!

Welcome!

It´s time to start our OPEN THURSDAYs again, we offer brunch and we’ll start a bit calmly with a music quiz!

Come join us! Bring a friend or an acquaintance who hasn’t been here before, maybe you know someone who needs context or wants more community?

Start: at 09.30

Location: EMMAS

Warm welcome!

On our meadow slope, it wasn’t beautiful either when we stopped mowing it with lawnmowers the first (or second) summer. Nah. It wasn’t pretty. Initially. But! Now, now!! Now it is as beautiful as a beaten flower meadow can be! First it gave us a lot of joy there in June; bubbling life and buzzing and humming. With the help of the Nature Conservation Association, we learned about new species and we learned how the raccoon’s good nature is recovering. Then it was beautiful with daisies and flowers throughout July, so beautiful.

Now the grass is cut in the old-fashioned way with a scythe and hemmed according to all the rules of the art.

We will continue with this method and we are SO proud that we decided (despite two summers of less than perfect slope) to return to the only right thing in this otherwise culturally historic environment.

Thank you Nils for wanting to work with us and help us help nature on the trot! For us, it’s no secret that you’re a rock, but for those who read this and don’t know or know you, it doesn’t hurt to mention!

Thank you so much Jan Jaap Kuiper for inviting us to the open studio and showing us and all the visitors your work.

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Interesting to hear more about the story behind “Orgone Accumulator” but also to hear you talk about how you explored the spirit of Burroughs by recreating methods he often mentions in his texts.

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Another eventful and rewarding day in Saxnäs. A not quite ordinary Tuesday evening in Folkes Ateljé!

Many thanks!

On Tuesday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m you are cordially invited to charge yourself with this life-energy in the Orgone Accumulator that Jan Jaap Kuiper has built in the Folke studio at Ricklundgården.

Orgone is a mystical universal life force dreamed up by pseudo-scientist Wilhelm Reich in the 1930’s. It’s a cosmic energy that forms a blueish sphere around the earth, charging all of nature. To charge oneself with this energy Reich developed the Orgone Accumulator – a wooden structure resembling an outhouse, lined with layers of organic material and metal, that captures the orgone radiation and feeds it to the human within.

Jan Jaap Kuiper is a Dutch filmmaker working on a film based on the “cut up trilogy” by William Burroughs. Orgone Accumulator is the second part in his series of installations to explore the spirit of Burroughs by reenacting practices he frequently mentions in his texts.

Parts of the staff are now back at work and from today we have more or less our regular operations again.

Planning and hustle and bustle at EMMAS starts, the museum’s summer opening is over and we look ahead to what is to come.

Welcome to visit us at the office at EMMAS (opposite the store) Monday-Thursday 8am-3pm. As long as the door is open and we are not out on a mission, you are free to come and visit!

If you are considering guided tours, it is of course possible to book at least 24 hours in advance to: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com. Then the days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday apply unless otherwise agreed.

For those of you who still have the opportunity to take time off; keep your hat on, put on your rain gear and enjoy the rest of your holiday. To you who, just like us, have started working again; try to enjoy and take advantage of the days anyway, summer is not over!

• The museum’s opening hours and information on how to book a guided tour this summer, as well as where to contact staff on site, can be found here on our website; contact/opening hours

• During the summer we can only be reached via email, the phone also has some time off

• The staff is at full capacity again on August 14.

Until then, we hope you all have a really nice summer!

The band with the name of the village that lies so nicely at a crossroads 6o km from Vilhelmina. In Stalon there is the gas station that many of us have loved and still love. There is the shop where you can find the most amazing, useful stuff and Stalon is the place where you can choose to go to either Vojmådalen or Kultsjödalen.

• On Saturday at 9 p.m., this Vilhelmina band plays at Saxnäsgården. Free entrance.

For all those interested in culture and not least those interested in music, this is a unique and rare chance to experience the band live at home!

• On the occasion of #saxnäs200år, Stalon is also releasing the single “Vinevardo” today. Available where music is simply – in and listen!

• A small note in this happy news is that the man on the far right of the picture is called Kristoffer and he is EMMA’s new art teacher. But a more extensive presentation about him will come in a later post.

Good morning!

June 6 today and the garden and everything that goes with it is slowly waking up from its winter rest. It’s still cold, but those who are waiting for a little barefoot ground or bathing temperature are still waiting after all.

• Monday 26 June at 10-15 the museum opens its doors for the summer. Just that day is an excellent day to visit us as we have free entry to the museum, scenic activity together with the Nature Conservation Association, “open studio” and coffee sales.

• Inquiries about out-of-season guided tours or our regular summer opening hours are sent to our email; info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

Now tomorrow we will “finish” our waffle Thursdays, for this winter, with a thunderous quiz. A quiz where the questions are partly based on history and the name Brita/Birgitta recurs.

Not only that, at 10 am we will be visited by some students from the school here in Saxnäs who will show a film they have made!

Of course, the waffle iron heats up and the coffee pot is charged.

This also means that we are now taking a break even with the creative workshop which is after school hours. So tomorrow, Thursday March 30, will also be the last Thursday open for children.

• Then it was time to plan for new residency stays. This time, you can apply from 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024, MARK your application with: Residence 23/24.

• Before you fill in the application form, please read our regulations carefully which can be found under “ART IN RESIDENCE” < APPLICATION. The application is sent digitally as a PDF, BEFORE March 31, 2023 to our email: info.ricklundgarden@gmail.com Answers to all artists will be sent out during the latter part of May. • Final decision is made in communication with artist and business (in good time) before expected arrival. • A warm welcome with your application!

Last week’s highlight was this fantastic theater that was with us in Saxnäs at EMMAS.

~ Strongest hearts have the most scars ~ The story of a woman from a roadless country who walked her own path instead of getting lost in the footsteps of others. Produced by Musikteatern and with a fantastic artistic team consisting of Harleen Kalkat and Magnus Karlsson.

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We pushed the boundaries of what can be considered “comfortable seating” for everyone and anyone who made up the audience, and as we say in Sweden but if there is room for the heart, there is room for the bottom and it does when we arrange something! ♥️ These words may become Ricklundgården and EMMA’s “contribution” to Valentine’s Day. With hope for a more inclusive, accepting and inviting world!

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This theater was a collaboration with Riksteatern in Vilhelmina!

On February 1, Ricklundgården was invited to Stockholm and @matsthepoet book release at Scalateatern. The title is ~Härlig er Jorden~ which was about how a writing process can go and about how the mountains and landscapes have changed just over a few decades.

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Included in the book are several people from Kultsjödalen,@ellakariskum, @anderswesslanwestlin and his mother Gunilla Westlin and Göran Eriksson.

This evening I (Tina) was a “stand-in” for @hedewa, who also frequently appears with many stories in the book.

A nice evening and full of honor that we were three friends from Kultsjödalen who got the chance and the opportunity to talk about our home region which is so nicely described in Mat’s book.

Then it’s Open House at Ricklundgården at 16-20.

@mattias_andersson_art will invite you to Folke’s studio, mulled wine and other goodies will be available for a cheap penny (swish only) and during the evening you can participate in a quiz where we will draw a very nice prize to the person with the most right answers.

• More information about this will be available shortly both here on the website, Instagram, Facebook and of course on the notice board in the village.

• All warmly welcome! 🕯

Welcome to us now on Thursday 24 November to listen to an Artist talk by Peter Österlin at 10.30-12.00 

“In art I have often been interested in existential questions such as the collective, ideas of independence or death and life. I have always loved when I found a physical place or a

abstract figure that invited and in some cases could also be exhibited.”

Peter thought to talk a little about how his entry into art might be, partly by telling about a previous work but also one that he started here in Saxnäs.

In a book circle with his mother, they have read her childhood books and in conversation searched for things that never happened, and he is now physically in the spot where the books take place, in Marsfjällen.

As usual, we offer coffee with snacks.

Our magnificent program during this year’s edition of Saxnäs Christmas Market.

In proud collaboration with @klimpfjallsalpina & @generationsnowboard and not least the fantastic Nils Åslund who has fought and will continue to fight with the exhibition right up until Christmas market morning.

A warm WELCOME to EMMAS on Saturday.

At 10-16. WARM WELCOME!

When the Christmas market is over at four o’clock in the afternoon, we are guested at EMMAS by Anton Bergsten who sings and plays!

It will be a lovely Christmas market day here in Saxnäs, 19/11.

See you!

Please spread the word!

So yesterday it was time for us to take EMMAS to Vilhelmina, and all said and done we steered towards our partners at @wilhelmina_fritidsgard

Once there, 7 expectant and lovely children were waiting. But for anyone who has ever created something truly brilliant, knows that it doesn’t happen on an empty stomach so the first thing we did was get some food before the big mission.

Satisfied and recharged, we went to a well-selected location and there began an intense and concentrated teamwork that resulted in a fantastic three-dimensional creation – the children’s own works of art!

We have moved this time to a little later on Thursdays, namely to 10.30-12.00.

WARM WELCOME ! ! !

Thanks to all of you who visited us on Wednesdays and ate waffles. It has been a real pleasure!

It is said that you have to finish on top, so now our Waffle Wednesdays ends in favor of new ideas.

Keep an eye out here, or on our instagram or Facebook page where we announce what is happening at EMMAS.

Have a great day!

Artist talk by Jan Philip Scheibe ⭐️

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Thanks to both young and old who participated yesterday. Being able to fill our gathering space one morning in the middle of the week where the activity is about artistry and professional art – it feels more than nice!

Jan Philip gave an interesting, thought provoking, historical and at times brilliant comic presentation yesterday, and for that we are so grateful!

Many thanks Jan Philip Scheibe 🧡

Welcome to us now on Thursday 13 October to listen to an Artist talk by Jan Philip Scheibe between 9.30 and 10.15.

Jan Philip Scheibe is a Hamburg (GER) based performance & lighting artist with a focus on walking performances that reflect our relationship with the landscape.

You are welcome to join us on Thursdays

at 09-11!

We meet, tinker and learn from each other! 😃

are now over. We have had Art in Halland visiting, Region Halland and Västerbotten’s Art consultant from MAN Skellefteå here with us at Ricklundgården and EMMAS for three days. We have talked about future collaborations and Art Education as well as residency activities. Boy, so many plans have been hatched! 🙌🏼

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I especially want to thank everyone who in one way or another participated in making these days so nice & valuable!

Every Thursday between 9.00-11.00 we are open at EMMAS for everyone.

Drop by our place to do some crafts and have coffee together for a while.

See you!

Every Wednesday at EMMAS for just about anyone who wants to.

Between the hours of 13.30 -15.00

Free and lactose-free

EMMAS open in the evening!

• From Wednesday this week, from 14-20, we are open for children and young people!

Come and hang out with us at EMMAS, listen to music, be creative in any field, chat with your friends or just be!

• This will be our first evening open day and until further notice these times will continue every Wednesday until further notice.

• If you have any questions or concerns about EMMAS, send an email to:

emmassaxnas@gmail.com

• See you on Wednesday!

Jonas has a two-year high school education.

At Ricklundgården in Saxnäs, Jonas has made the final changes to a crime novel that will be published in October. There has also been time to think out characters and plots in Jonas’s next book, which he will write this winter.

“- Maybe some part of that story will take place in this area.”

• “- It has been fantastic to be here, such a nice place! The mountain environment, the calm and the nature provide peace of mind and fanatical conditions for creation.”

• We thank Jonas for the visit and wish him the best of luck with the new book!

Now there are quieter times in our valley and so also with visitors traveling through.

The last day with drop-in in the museum for this summer is tomorrow THURSDAY (12-3pm), with reserved for guided tours in the morning 10-11.30 if you like to book a tour send a email to: visnings.ricklundgarden@gmail.com ~ but of course we accept requests for guided tours throughout the year as well!

• We thank you for this season and can happily state that it has been a very nice one with interested and happy visitors from near and far! ♥️

• For bookings or inquiries of other kinds, send an email to:

emmasricklundgarden@gmail.com

Unna has a master’s degree in history and Nordic languages ​​and culture.

• “- I am a author. At Ricklundgården I have written a story inspired by the nature, history and folklore of the Saxnäs area. Now I am in the process of making watercolor illustrations for the story.

The story will be called “Wildland”, and is the 4th volume in a series of Nordic stories”.

• How has the experience been for you here at Ricklundgården?

“- It has been a fantastic experience, for which I am very grateful. The nature was breathtaking, and Rebecka from the Ricklundgården museum took me on some exciting experiences to Fatmomakke, Marsliden and Stekenjokk. It made the stay extra enriching. The silence in nature also did me good”.

• Sandra has a bachelor’s degree with a specialization in textiles from Konstfack.

• The techniques that she mainly worked with during her time in Saxnäs are hand embroidery and textile collages in the form of paintings.

“- At Ricklundgården I started working on a series of paintings with just textile collage and embroidery. Something I will continue to work on during the autumn. There will be ten pieces and each one is a section of the place around Ricklundgården. An interpretation through my eyes”.

Ida Isak has a degree in hand weaving and art sewing from Handarbetets vänner.

•During the time at Ricklundgården, Ida Isak has been looking for different sides in herself;

“- Sides I haven’t found before, in history, in the ground, in the views and the body. I’ve tried techniques I haven’t used, sun-dyed with plants from specific places and woven with things I found. I have explored new expressions, what rests and what can emerge when I give it time and space.”

This does not mean that it is holiday quiet in our studios or in the museum, but it does mean that fantastic Rebecka is guideing! She is a ray of sunshine and a fantastic narrator.

To book guided tours or get in touch with the museum this summer, send an Email to:

view.ricklundgarden@gmail.com

She has studied at Glasgow School of Art and HDK-Valand Art Academy.

• Emma works with photographic and sculptural installations and video. Her artistic work explores collective and personal stories based on archeology, history, symbolism and place.

The museum opens for guided tours and Drop-in this summer.

Anna has studied glassblowing in Orrefors and has an artistic education R.Steiner seminar in Järna and studies information science in Örebro.

Cut ribbons, drink coffee and eat cake and make your own cloth bags. Try to be a little creative, gather, talk, eat and be at a party!

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Thanks to everyone who participated, thanks to Nina who cut the ribbon and represented Region Västerbotten. Many thanks to Malin, Hilda and Christer (one heart was to you)!

Balloons to blow!

Show and use their self-designed t-shirts (notice the pride and joy in the girls’ eyes).

Cakes to be eaten and of course there should be time and space for hugs.

The first day in world history with Art Pedagogy at EMMAS for our main target group; children & young!

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We have sneaked in the inauguration today with some creative fun!

brain AND heart behind the transformation of our spaces at EMMAS

For two days in March, we received long-distance visits from Lund and Umeå. It was Ann-Marie and Peter who were here to film and document from SVT.

• For the curious, there is the episode about Ricklundgården to watch on SVT Play, the program is called Sweden! and the episode is from Friday, May 20th.

• We wish you a fantastic Monday and can tell you that today the sun is shining in Saxnäs – it is finally real spring

You are most welcome to participate in our festivities!

You may be wondering why F.d. Rävlyan has now changed its name to EMMAS, and what happens here? EMMAS has of course taken its name from our fantastic artist Emma Ricklund.

EMMA’s workshop is mainly for children and young people in Vilhelmina municipality, but also adults and pensioners will be offered activities.

During the day when we are at work, anyone is welcome to look in, we will just be happy about that!

Our analog lab at EMMAS is ready! Here we can develop photos and work with light-sensitive chemicals. We now have the opportunity to work with various different photographic techniques and one of these can be, among other things, cyanotype. In the future, we will also be able to illuminate frames for screen printing.

Patricia Roda’s from Tölby, 15 km south of Vaasa Finland, Ilar Gunilla Persson, now living in Bagarmossen outside Stockholm (but originally from Dalarna) and Anna-Karin Jansson who lives in Stockholm, Bagarmossen.

Just peeking in to say hello but also to ask everyone curious, interested or engaged or to anyone and everyone to “hold open” June 2 & 3. Because then we thought to inaugurate this colorful place and our art education workshop EMMAS!

Many THANKS to all of you from the four of us ♥ ️ It went well. Thanks to everyone who came to listen, talk, ask and hear.

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To be informed about what EMMAS is and what we do and in which direction we want, it is both fun and important.

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From Christer, Hilda, Malin and Tina!

Maybe you have wondered what EMMAS really is? For whom is this for? How will it work? And can you, as a general curiosity, just look in and visit?

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EMMAS is the name of our art education workshop. EMMAS is also the name of our premises which is in Saxnäs, below the school and opposite the store.

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EMMAS offers all primary school children in the ENTIRE VILHELMINA MUNICIPALITY a professional art pedagogical approach, ie. Art + pedagogy in harmony with other activities in the schools.

Also beautiful to see all these residency applications that have come in to us! 🙂
We thank you so humbly for that!
Everyone will be contacted after the board’s annual meeting in May about whether the applications will be accepted or not.
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Many thanks to all the wonderful artists – you are fantastic ♥ ️

Our work phone is out of order! We do not know at the moment when it works again but we ask you to communicate with us via e-mail.
emmasricklundgarden@gmail.com
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We wish you a nice day and of course it’s great that we have entered the spring month of April! 🌷

it’s heart warming to see your texts and your signatures ♥ ️

Will be a wonderful year in the sign of art!
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It is a very beautiful morning here in Saxnäs. It is Friday. In an hour the sun will start to warmth and the wind it has taken a break. Welcome beautiful weekend! We are taking the weekend off now but we are back on Monday, BUT !!!
👉🏼IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO SEND IN YOUR APPLICATION FOR RESIDENCE. In other words; it is possible to submit your residence application until Monday. Mark your application with “residence 22/23”.

For more information about how to apply, click on “Art in residence” Read more

Then you have time for a lot of things. In the first picture you see my colleagues, from the right; Hilda, Christer and Malin. Which means, all positions at EMMAS are now filled and we have had our first real working week together.

In addition to this, we have had a long-awaited visit from @man_konstmuseet from Skellefteå.

SVT has also been here for a few days and worked.

It is time to plan for new residencies. This time, you apply from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023 MARK your application with: Residence 22/23. Before you fill in the application form, read our regulations carefully. Click on our page Application to find the application form and our regulations.

Send your application digitally as a PDF BEFORE March 31, 2022 to our email: emmasricklundgarden@gmail.com

Yes, that’s the name of our art education project that starts on February 1 ♥ ️

We know with us that the posts have been a bit sparse lately, but that does not mean that things haven´t been happening. We are very happy and proud to finally tell you all that Saxnäs will have its own creative workshop.

“Culture and art are for everyone and this time it is for the children and young people in our vast inland municipality!”

Things are happening!
In the middle of the snowstorm’s eye, we have news we want to share with you …
Now there will be an art pedagogical workshop in Saxnäs!

Ett stort tack till alla som besökte oss i lördagskväll, många nyfikna människor från när och fjärran och extra kul med alla Kultsjödalsbor som hälsade på! Det värmer våra hjärtan att huset fylls av barn, barnbarn, mammor och pappor och en och annan mormor, morfar eller farmor. Vi är så glada att kvällen fick bli ett minne som vi kan dela med många, konst och kultur är ju trots allt verkligen för alla♥️

31 years old originally from Orsa in Dalarna but now living in Malmö. Has studied at Helliden Folkhögskola, östra Grevie folkhögskola and Konstfack. Amanda is a graphic illustrator, designer and visual artist.

Introducing children to artists and art and artists to children.

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Today we had the pleasure of having 3 classes from Saxnäs school visiting us. Talk, look, discover, see, feel and pitter-patter up stairs. For many children, Ricklundgården is like a labyrinth that just has to be discovered!

Sofie Karlsson, born 1990 in Halmstad. Lives and works today in Gothenburg.

Sofie has a bachelor’s degree from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg in Textile Art from 2019. Previous educations from Gamleby, Löftadalen and Östra Grevie folk high schools, all with different textile specializations in arts, crafts, pattern construction and design.

Lotta Enbrand, 49 years old living in Uppsala. She spent 2 years at Kyrkerud community high school, 1 year at Uppsala art school for Stina Wollter, after that 2 years at photo technical education and 1 year Speos photography school in Paris.

From my visit last week during the inauguration of Sara Cultural Centre, I have fond memories stored under my skin, close to my heart. I think of the activities inside the walls of the wooden house, I think of the people, who with commitment and a lot of will and love, work to present art and meet people on equal terms. I think of the heat, the conversations, the air hugs and everything that meant a lot between the lines.

As you may understand, there are good days and there are good days. Yesterday was a very good day because Ricklundgården got a nice visit from @edelvik_konst again!

This windy but cool and nice Thursday we were visited by Kajsa Ravin, Director General of the Swedish Arts Council and her colleague Margareta Brilioth. With them were also Joakim Sandberg, Regional Culture Manager in Västerbotten and as representatives from our beautiful municipality participated KSO Annika Andersson and Finance Manager Niklas Vilhelmsson.

Lately, I have repeatedly heard how much this place means to the experience and the feeling in the context. I agree and I agree so sincerely. What I want to draw attention to now is also how much the individual means to reinforce all that this place stands for.

Like the flowers of the fireweed we are now also done blooming for this summer season.

We thank you for all the fantastic visits we have had and we humbly thank you for the respect everyone showed for each other when staying inside the museum’s walls. This summer we will be remembered as warm winds, filled with laughter and curious questions and as a summer when no distance was too far.

♥ ️

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Of course, it is still possible to book guided tours and the easiest way to find information about it is to read more by clicking on Contact here on our website

Presents Helena Backmark now living in Vårgårda. Helena has studied 5 years of graphics and 2 years of general art.

Helena likes to try different water-based techniques and to find a language to express herself in.

– Nature is a great source of inspiration, I love the colors outdoors, she says.

Per and Gunvi have been together for 44 years and this is their second visit together in Kultsjödalen.

– The first time we where here was in 1977 but we were not resident artists at Ricklundgården that time, we where just tourists in the area. The place is extremely important, I want to be open to the place and explore a bit to see if it is possible to reach old memories, says Gunvi.

– “You never descend into the same river twice”, says Gunvi Bengtsson.

Wednesday 18/8 and Saturday 28/8 Ricklundgården and the museum are closed.

The last day for drop-in this summer is therefore Friday 27/8 between kl. 12-15 so take the opportunity to visit us then!

Proudly presents Elin Anna Labba, author, and Pia Sjögren, journalist.

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Elin Anna has written her first novel and Pia has written essays. They have been here together for two sunny, rainy, windless, windy and evergreen June weeks.

The jury’s motivation reads: “We believe Sofie Karlsson will have good opportunities to work concentrated, deepen her material knowledge and gather ideas as a residence fellow at Ricklundgården. Sofie comes to the mountains in Saxnäs during a period when nature explodes in colors and is visually dramatic. With her interest in nature’s shifts in color, shape and structure, we are convinced that the place will really add new perspectives to her art. ”

The museum will be open for guided tours and Drop-in this summer.

It is impossible to describe in words how this whole week has been so I have decided not to do it! Instead, I will tell you about yesterday when we finally got a visit from Sara!

Sara works as a project manager for @sapmisalasta and earlier last winter when we talked, we had many great ideas and thoughts about possible cooperation across the mountain border.

Moa Gustafsson Söndergaard, 29 year old artist living in Malmö but originally from Gävle.
She has studied at Akademi Valand in Gothenburg and at Umeå Art Academy.

We at Ricklundgården have the privilege of being visited by exciting people who have lived an exciting life, made incredible trips and created art all over the world.
Last Sunday we said goodbye to Kakan Hermansson and Klas Hasselrot who had been visiting us.

Meet our other employee Andréas Brännström.

Andréas grew up in Skellefteå but now lives in Gammelstad outside Luleå, he is a trained artist, musician and has a fondness for local history.

Ricklundgården’s new employees.

Then it was time to plan for new residencies. This round, you apply from 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. MARK your application with: Residence 21/22. Before you fill in the application form, carefully read our regulations which are available on our website under “ART IN RESIDENCE” Read more

Ann-Kristin Källström, now living outside Kramfors with a graphic workshop in Härnösand. Educated at an art school in Stockholm, Riddarfjärdsskolan, and trained in photography and photojournalism. Ann-Kristin works with graphics and is very photo-based.

It is a small step for humanity perhaps, people have been building websites for many years now but this launch is for us a BIG event.

Due to this, we are closing our museum for the time being, which also means that we will not accept booked tours.

Hold out everyone!

Stricter guidelines for you in Västerbotten

Proudly presents Hilda Lindström, artist and graphic artist from Falun. Hilda has studied free art for 6 years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. In addition, she has studied sound interaction and photographic history at Konstfack.

Postcard from Ricklundgården

So October 2020 is almost over and it is time to turn a page in the calendar and welcome November.

Proudly presents, Kerstin Lindström. Artist who works conceptually with objects and installations.

Last Monday we went to the coast, Skellefteå was our destination and later on Umeå. We had planned meetings with operations managers for MAN, an art educator and art consultants for the Västerbotten Region.

Proudly presents, artist Susanne Vollmer. It is Susanne first time in Saxnäs, she has been awarded a scholarship from Konst in Halland.

We started by welcoming Region Västerbotten’s development administration to their autumn boarding