Grant recipients 2019

7 December – 19 January 2020

Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation

Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation scholarships are awarded each year to three or four newly graduated female artists from schools of art throughout Sweden. Designer and artist Anna-Lisa Thomson (1905–1952) worked at ceramics producers S:t Eriks Lervarufabriker and Upsala-Ekeby in Uppsala. When she was young, Thomson received a scholarship that proved to be a major turning point in her life. Following her death at a relatively early age, the foundation was established in her memory. First awarded back in 1955, the scholarships have played a pivotal role in the Swedish art world and they have helped to establish an artistic platform that has proved to be increasingly egalitarian.