The funded projects connected to the New Genre Arctic Art Education Initiative (AAE) and presented on this website were planned to foster decolonisation, social resilience, and sustainability through art-based local involvements and educational practices.
Supported by art-based action research, they demonstrated how artists and art educators can work together with communities to revitalise cultures and decolonise discourses and practices through self-determined social and cultural identities that open pathways to sustainable futures in the North and Arctic regions.
We have broadened the understanding of living in the Arctic sociocultural landscapes by utilising transdisciplinary and culturally diverse approaches and by including culturally and linguistically diverse communities, students and staff.
Collaboration among participants in seminars and workshops was central to the AAE’s values. To reduce barriers such as linguistic, cultural and participatory challenges, a hybrid implementation was used, ensuring openness and accessibility for students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study.
AAE involved collaboration among the Arctic University’s Thematic Networks – Arctic Sustainable Art and Design (ASAD) and Children in the Arctic – and it was organised in collaboration with the University of Lapland, Finland; Nord University, Norway; Umeå University, Sweden; and Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland. Later, the Association Siunissaq replaced the University of Greenland as the Greenlandic partner.
Projects:
- New Genre Arctic Art Education (2022–2024)
- Sustainability Portraits (2022–2024)
- New Genre Arctic Art Education – Development project (2023–2025)
- Community Art-based sustainability in the Arctic (Arctic Expo) (2022–2025)
- Lessons of the Land (2025–2026)
