Grants + Awards + Certificates
2021 Best-of-the-Best Red Dot: Design Concept Award
2021 Nasdaq Competition
2017 SCAD Academic Honors Scholarship
2017 SCAD Achievement Honor Scholarship
2016 Cal-Earth Super Adobe Workshop Certificate
2016 Permaculture Design Certificate
Waffle Gradients
2020 - Current
An ongoing series exploring three-dimensional textiles that stimulate a natural habitat within interior environments.
Using color as a communicator, each piece becomes a sensory experience as relief waffle patterns rise and fall in a gradient fiber landscape; a window that provides a vista of meditation where humanity can dive deeper into the collectively undiscovered self.
All work is made using AVL Dobby Looms
b.1994, Geneva, Switzerland
Lives and works in Austin, TX, USA
EDUCATION
2018–2021 Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA Fibers concentrating in Weaving. Savannah, GA, USA
2014–2015 School of Visual Arts, Focus in Visual and Critical Studies. New York City, NY, USA
2011-2013 Aiglon College, International Baccalaureate Diploma. Villars-Sur-Ollons, Switzerland
BIO
ANYA MOLYVIATIS (b.1994) sculpts visual and tactile landscapes by unifying her love for fibers and design. With color gradients, weaving structures, and materiality, she shapes space into one with depth and motion. Seeking answers to our questions of well-being by the power of interconnection.
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Anya has spent her life traversing urban and wild landscapes throughout Europe and North America. After graduating from Aiglon College in 2013, she moved to the United States to study sustainable architecture in California. During her studies she completed a permaculture design course, opening her eyes to the potential of natural systems as well as textile properties. Entranced to learn more about materiality, she moved to New Mexico to apprentice with a master weaver and subsequently earned her BFA in Fibers at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2021.
She currently lives and works in Austin, Texas USA
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a weaver, I journey into relationships between materials, senses, and visuals. Through the intersections of fine art, design, and fibers, I create a woven vista that enables viewers to dive into the multi-dimensional layers of the self. Through my work, I also seek to bring a pulsation into spaces by creating my own three-dimensional weaving structures for an experience that moves us even in stillness. Driven by my fascination with the complex relationship humanity holds with our natural and built environments, I approach the challenges of human longevity with an innovative and optimistic blend of art and science. By engaging with the environments we are intimately a part of, my work focuses on revealing the strengths within our senses through an ambient, nurturing, and intimate sensory experience.