New Genre Arctic Art and Art Education Exhibition : In the footsteps of Teno’s astronomer Ándaras Kitti, 2024

For over 20 years, I have been developing interactive art activities that invite communities to join in. In these activities, the role of the artist is shared, and signing the works of art is often impossible. The activities are used to investigate and develop the possibilities for interaction between northern villages and contemporary art and ways to develop community-based art education. In February 2024, Art Education students from the Faculty of Art and Design participated with me in the celebration week of Teno’s astronomer Ándaras Kitti (1844–1926) at Utsjoki as part of the New Genre Arctic Art Education (AAE) project. Related to the starry sky the students planned and guided, in cooperation with local partners, community art workshops for the elderly, kindergarten children, and festival audiences at the Utsjoki Hotel and a winter art workshop on snow sculpture for elementary and high school students.