Arctic Arts and Visual Culture Education
UNESCO goals for the development of Arts Education contain a comprehensive plan of action for all arts education stakeholders. Among the resolutions the following two points are pertinent to the SIG: AAVCE holds particular interest towards recognizing and developing cultural well-being dimensions of arts education. The SIG will also support and enhance the role of arts education in the promotion of social responsibility, social cohesion, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. In pursuit of these, AAVCE brings together experts from across the Arctic to review and critically analyse practice through arts-based research methods.
SIG objectives / Arctic Arts and Visual Culture Education
SIG objectives / Arctic Arts and Visual Culture Education
- Implement the relevant parts of the UNESCO goals for Arts Education in the Arctic area
- Identify and develop the rich cross section of contemporary art and traditional visual cultures of the arctic region
- Foster community-based art and visual culture education
- Use arts and visual culture for empowerment of the inhabitants in the Arctic area inspired by the arctic nature, culture and environment
- Increase the profile and sharing of traditional and new arts and visual culture education practices across the Arctic area.