EDUCATION
1998-1999 Trainer of trainees; including leadership, development in groups and organizations, resource mapping etc Abo Academy, Finland
1997 Culture Producer Abo Academy,Finland
1993 Carer for disabled people Finland
1991 Artesan – silversmith Finland
1987 Nurse Finland
1972 Childcarer Finland
TRAINING
1998-2004 Painting, Sculptures etc -courses in Finland/Sweden about 300 hrs
1991-1994 Gestalt therapy in groups incl drama and painting in Finland/Sweden
1976-1997 Living workshop in Finland /Sweden 280 hrs
PLACES OF WORK
2012-2019 Running a culture and art café in Ekenäs with events and workshops
2012-2017 Project koordinator for a school project for girls in Sierra Leone
2009-2010 Project-coordinator in an art and culture project, Finland www.produforum
2003-2008 Manager in a short time nursing-home for young people with disabilities
Manager for a day-center for disabled people 1 year
Assistant teacher for children with special need 1 year
Assistant at a museum, Finland – working with exhibitions and creating a card index for old photos 1 year
Co-coordinator in an organization for people with disabilities 1 year
Teacher in drama and painting in Anna’s House – a culture center for children in Helsinki 2 years www.annantalo.fi
Teacher in creativity and art in different schools for nurses 4 years
PRODUCER FOR PROJECTS
2009-2019 Culture and art events, courses and workshops for children and young people in Finland, Sierra Leone, St Croix, Dominica,
Greenland, Iceland
1996 – 2019 Summer happenings for children incl. theater, dance, art
1998 – 2010 Art for children living or visiting in institutions
2000 – 2010 Art for children with special needs; visiting schools
2002 – 2010 Handicraft for families; open workshops
2000 – 2010 Art projects for adults with disabilities; visiting day centers, organizing trips to Sweden and Spain to visit art museums,
inviting artist to work with these people
2001 – 2002 Making of Indian camps; making tipis, totems, jewelries, bows and arrows, tomahawks, drums, etc.
As an artist I work with paintings, installations, junk art, recycle art and handicrafts like jewelries and wirework
EXHIBITIONS
1990 - paintings
1991 - paintings, installations
1993 - paintings, junk art
1995 – paintings
1996 – jewelries
2000 – paintings
2002 – paintings, installations
2004 – jewelries, recycle art
2005 - jewelries, wireworks
2008 - jewelries, Stockholm, Sweden( all the others in Finland)
2009 - jewelries
2016 - photos
2017 - textile installations
2018 - light installations
TEACHING WORK
1996-2019
For adults:
Dynamic process in group
Creativity in rehabilitating
Working with myths, dreams and symbols
Painting and sculpturing
For people with disabilities:
Sex and how to live together
Consciousness of disabilities
Painting and sculpturing
Creativity
Drama
For children with special needs:
Painting and sculpturing
Drama
Storytelling
For children of all kind and of all ages:
Painting and drawing with aquarelle, acryl, tempera, collages, black-white, charcoal,
color pencils etc.
Sculptures of wire, metallic net (for hen coops), papier mache, wood, clay, junk
Making dolls and doll houses and performing puppet theater
Handicrafts: wire work, jewelries, painting textiles, making paper, wool felting
Workshops with themes like “Junk Art”, “Fishes”, “Birds”, “Clowns and Circus”,
“Faces and Masks”, “The Sea”, “The Space”, “Stories and Myths”, “Mobiles” etc.
incl. painting and making sculptures of all kind of materials
STUDY TOURS
How to use creativity and art with people with disabilities or mentally ill people;
Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden
Oslo, Norway
Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark
Barcelona, Spain
New York and San Francisco, USA