Kategoria: Workshops

  • If you can dream it, you can do it

    If you can dream it, you can do it

    Suvi Autio & Niko Väistö Summary “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…

  • Joy of creation and wildlife

    Joy of creation and wildlife

    Animal masks workshop Ann Kristin Klausen, Mats Gøran Dale, Lars Harald Køste Solbakk and Rutt Astri Olsen | Nord Universitet | Nomadic Hub Arctic Art Education | 13.05.2025 | Narsaq, Greenland Summary One of the workshops was held with lower secondary students at the school in Narsaq. The students created masks of Greenlandic animals using…

  • Workshops for Utsjoki snow and winter

    Workshops for Utsjoki snow and winter

    Tiina Männistö, Anselmi Petäjäaho and Roosa Pyykkönen University of Lapland, Finland 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. The Land…

  • House Marks

    House Marks

    Anselmi Petäjäaho 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…

  • Tales of the Snow

    Tales of the Snow

    Snow sculpture workshop Tiina Männistö In the Stories about Snow workshop, the students shared their experiences of the nature of Utsjoki and their relationship with it by storytelling. The purpose of the workshop was to reflect on one’s own relationship with nature and express thoughts through snow sculpting art. The pupils had interviewed their parents…

  • Animations of winter in Utsjoki

    Animations of winter in Utsjoki

    Animation workshop                  Roosa Pyykkönen In the animation workshop, the pupils did their own winter-themed stop-motion animations using different techniques like using objects, movement and drawing. Materials were found around the school, like art and craft materials, but also everyday odjects and snow and nature outside. The first half of the workshop was aimed at learning…

  • Sustainability portraits  animations

    Sustainability portraits animations

    We are ever-changing Vikajärvi Essi Hänninen & Saara SipiläUniversity of LaplandFinland Our project was to implement a workshop in Vikajärvi School for grades 3-6. The goal was to explore participants’ identities through introspection, cooperative art-based activities and personal relations to Vikajärvi. We approached the theme of sustainability portraits through the community and its members’ ability…