Two months ago the Rievdan project group attended the opening event for the community art pieces Min Muorra (eng. Our tree) and Tarinoiden metsä (eng. Forest of stories) in Vuohčču. Held in the Vuohčču school cafeteria, the event brought together students, staff and the project group to celebrate the street paintings created during the previous…
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This autumn, the Rievdan team took part in several conferences to share recent work carried out together with the Vuohčču and Kárášjohka communities. It was inspiring to exchange experiences with other northern researchers and to deepen conversations around art-based action research and new genre Arctic art education. Our conference season began at the first SuMu…
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The second trip to Kárášjohka and Vuohčču took place during the first weeks of September 2025. This time, we arrived with more knowledge than before, yet holding communal art workshops and having discussions with the participants once again taught both me and the main partners of this project a great deal. Even after careful planning,…
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During Rievdans second trip to Kárášjohka, we did a street painting workshop. This is the report from the Kárášjohka class on how they felt the street painting went. Our idea in this project was to paint a reindeer head with cloudberries. We chose to paint that because reindeer herding is a part of who we…
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The Rievdan project’s art workshops kicked off in great co-design spirit 12-14th May, 2025! The two-year project is led by Professor Mirja Hiltunen from the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland. Korinna Korsström-Magga serves as project researcher and coordinator, and Ante Jalvela as research assistant. The first workshops were also…
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