Imola ANTAL

1992, Szeged, weaver

She grew up in Csobotfalva, Csík County. She pursued her weaving studies at the Nádudvar Folk Handicraf School, where her master was Teréz Galánfné Schmidt. After this she graduated in ethnography from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. She was awarded the title of Young Master of Folk Art in 2015. She exhibited her works at the Transylvanian Living Folk Art exhibition in 2018 and she became an award-winning artist there in 2020. She won the Junior Prima Award in 2018. She has taught weaving at the Nádudvar Folk Craf School having replaced her master. She has been a scholarship holder of the Hungarian Academy of Arts since 2022. Adapting old techniques to personality and practical use today, she makes ensembles that can be worn on weekdays or holidays. She draws inspiration mainly from the material of the Hungarian, Romanian and Moldavian Chango folk art of Transylvania.