2024-2025
Project coordinator:
Suonenjoen Upper Secondary School, Finland
Project partners:
Mazeikiai Merkelis Rackauskas gymnasium, Lithuania
Akranes Fjolbrautaskoli Vesturlands Upper Secondary School, Iceland
Main objectives of the project:
To get to know and compare Finnish, Lithuanian, and Icelandic art and explore how it can contribute to creating a more socially sustainable future.
To empower students to address challenges such as climate change and social inequality through creative expression.
To use art as a way to manage feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression while building mental resilience.
Welcome to Mažeikiai
Welcoming our guests
Presenting our country and its art
Quiz time
Exploring the most breathtaking paintings of the Finnish Art
Exploring the most breathtaking paintings of the Finnish Art
Exploring the most breathtaking paintings of the Finnish Art
The highlights of Icelandic art and culture
The highlights of Icelandic art and culture
The virtual reality film invited us to get acquainted with 60 well-known and easily recognizable and less visible paintings by the Lithuanian artist M. K. Čiurlionis in VR space.
Birch Bark Crafts Workshop at Mažeikiai Museum
A Trip to Telšiai
Highlights of the stay
Comic strip workshop
KELLARIGALLERIA
(Basement gallery)
guided tour
SUOMI TASTING
Kuopio ART MUSEUM guided tour: The many forms of contemporary comics
School visit at Lumit, Kuopio High School of Arts
A tour of Kuopion Korttelimuseo (Old Kuopio Museum) - a glimpse into historic Finnish homes and family life from the 1800s to the 1930s.
A walk to Konttila, a 250 year-old farmstead in the heart of the majestic Puijo forest.
KUOPIO CITY THEATRE
stage studio in Kelloniemi
KUOPIO CITY THEATRE
guided tour of the wardrobe
Iceland, here we come!
AKRANES LOCAL MUSEUM
Tour around Akranes and Old Akranes Lighthouse
Art class "Drawing with your eyes" and visit to painter's workshop
SHWIMMING!!
RECREATIONAL DAY WITH HOST FAMILIES
HARPA Concert and Congress Hall of Iceland
TOLLHÚSIÐ ÚTILISTAVERK plain air art class!
SAFNAHÚSIÐ ART MUSEUM
The National Theatre of Iceland (Þjóðleikhúsið)
The many colours of Reykjavik
Art lessons at FVA
ICELAND'S NATIONAL PARK - ÞINGVELLIR
Steaming geysers, thundering waterfalls, vast sweeping landscapes
National Museum of Iceland,
Reykjavik
SCULPTURE GARDEN OF EINAR JÓNSSON Workshop