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Hay Barn Diaries and Capercailzies’ Tails
My dream as leader of the Living in the Landscape (LiLa) Summer School of the Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD) network of the University of Arctic was to run the LiLa annually in such a way that participants would have opportunities to learn about the Arctic and the North, in general, by visiting authentic…
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Young People’s Climate Future Performance
We planned and carried out a workshop period where a group of young people living in Rovaniemi, Finland, were able to process and express their views on the climate future through their co-artwork Solastalgia, for an international audience in the Arctic Spirit Congress.
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Sustainability in the Arctic – Ice Fishing Films from Vikajärvi Portraying the Local Lifestyle
Pupils from the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades at Vikajärvi School (20), along with their teacher, Jussi Korpi, participated in the workshop, creating four short films in Spring 2024. The project was carried out by the University of Lapland and involved art education students Aino Jäälinoja, Aleksi Ignatius, Sade Lylykoski, Arctic art and design…
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River – Painting Workshop and Performance
The theme of the workshop was river which flows through the Karasjok village. The topic was connected to northern nature and relevant to the participants, eighth-grade pupils, and to their everyday lives. In the workshop, we focused on what kind of words, images, colours, and movements the river brought to mind. The subject was started…
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Knowing through Soil, Care, and Community
In this workshop, we used planting as an art-based tool to find a connection to a local sociocultural landscape and each other. As art educators, we questioned our contribution to our community and a better future. In this workshop, I wanted to approach this question from an ecosocial point of view, aiming to bring local…
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Collaborative Video Collage: Building Dialogue through a Sámi Bedtime Story
Collective video artwork assignment was part of the New Genre Arctic Art Education -course. The making of collaborative artwork aimed to explore the possibilities of digital tools to engage the participants in a shared art process over distances
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If you can dream it, you can do it
“If you can dream it, you can do it” workshop consisted of making video art together with local students from Inusullivik school, Narsaq. In the workshop, we explored the participants’ future images and local ecocultures through writing, conversations, filming and recording. During the workshop, we provided a glimpse of what it is like to work…
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Joy of creation and wildlife
One of the workshops was held with lower secondary students at the school in Narsaq. The students created masks of Greenlandic animals using recycled materials and watercolour pencils. Together with their teachers, they translated the animal names into several languages. The goal was to use sustainable materials and support place-based learning rooted in the students’…
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Workshops for Utsjoki snow and winter
In this land-based art education project, pupils in Utsjoki’s local schools joined in different snow and winter-themed workshops. The project aimed to develop Arctic art education through workshops and explore and support schoolchildren’s relationship with nature and local culture through contemporary art.
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House Marks
In the house mark workshop, participants designed their personal house marks, which were then cut as large stencils on sturdy paper. The stencils were then brought outside into the snow, where the marks were realised using fine ash. Finally, the completed stencils were hung on display on one of the school’s dining room walls.
New Genre Arctic Art Education