Minerva Skyttä won the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024 award for Formal/Couture

The Global Creative Graduate Showcase, an initiative by Arts Thread, is a unique digital platform that celebrates the creative achievements of graduating artists and designers from around the globe. In 2024, over 5,000 students from 523 institutions worldwide submitted their work, competing for recognition from a panel of 225 esteemed judges.

Skyttä’s win places her among a distinguished group of creatives recognized for their work across various categories, including Fashion, Digital design, Film, Fine arts and Architecture. All the winners will receive a year’s subscription to the Arts Thread Foundry, a new initiative that helps the creators protect their intellectual property, trade and monetize their creativity using blockchain technology in a seamless and transparent way.  

Arts Thread aims in helping to launch the next generation of creative talent globally. Over the past five years Art Threads it has built relationships with over 1000 creative institutions across about 140 countries and has partnered with leading brands, organizations, events, and media, helping hundreds of graduates gain employment and launch their own brands.

The showcase, in collaboration with industry leaders WGSN, Coloro, and Google Arts & Culture, amplifies the visibility of the winners' works. This year’s platform allowed for a public voting segment, garnering a total of 114,318 votes and showcasing the diverse talents of artists from 108 nationalities.

Skyttä’s awarded collection "Monin terveisin isäsi" 

Skyttä’s graduate collection Monin terveisin isäsi is inspired by her ancestors' correspondence from the early 1900s in Finland and China. In her collection, Skyttä explores the essence of letters, aiming to capture their appearance, handwriting, scent, fragility, folds, texture, passage of time, stains, sun fading, ink yellowing, and written content.

The collection features knit structures Skyttä designed herself. By reattaching the knit back onto the machine and knitting it in multiple directions, she creates sculptural, evolving garment shapes. Her goal is to craft pieces that cannot be replicated.