Abstract :
The purpose of this article is to describe how the
Department of Art Education at the University of
Lapland in Finland has developed winter art as a
method of environmental and community-based
art education. I will focus on the Snow Show
Winter Art Education Project, a training project
funded by the European Union and the State
Provincial Office of Lapland. The general aim of
the project was to increase the know-how of
winter art in Northern Finland. This goal was put
into practice through workshops on snow
construction, documentation of winter art, winteroriented
media production, and snow and ice
sculpting; through continuing education seminars,
workshops, and school projects for teachers;
and through public lectures and seminars on
winter and winter art. In this article, I describe the
challenges that winter offers to community and
environment-based art education in the North.
Further, I introduce the methods of implementation
and the outcomes of winter art exercises
carried out by several schools in Lapland in cooperation
with and inspired by the Snow Show
Winter Art Education Project.
