Art Friday 6.11.2026
Art Friday will take place on 6 November 2026. Once again, the event will present a short video introducing an art-related assignment for children.
Art Friday has been organised since 2012 and has grown into a valued and awaited part of the school year. The free, art-based event has many positive effects: it supports children’s well-being, imagination, and self-esteem, while ensuring equal access to art regardless of background.
The event is made possible with support from, among others, Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds minne sr.
Art Friday is an invaluable platform that inspires
the next generation to explore art and creativity.
The artist of the year
The featured artist for Art Friday 2026 is Marjo Pitko (Master of Fine Arts). She works as a fine art printmaker and visual arts educator in Meri-Lappi, and her work combines themes such as the sea, the river, and the rhythm of northern nature. Her artistic expression emerges through an interplay of drawing, painting, and photography, printmaking tying these elements into a cohesive whole. Alongside her artistic practice, she inspires people of all ages to engage with visual art.
This Year’s Art Assignment: bearer of light - A Summer Memory
This year’s art assignment, Bearer of Light - a summer memory, invites participants to revisit the past summer: a swim, an excursion, or another pleasant memory or moment. Use available recycled materials or collect cones, sticks, and stones from nature. Reflect on your memories by making marks on paper, fabric, or cardboard, or by creating a sculptural object inspired by your memories. Use different colours and shapes.
Materials for the assignment
Materials:
Modelling clay, clay, or air dry clay.
Materials to leave marks with:
Recycled and/or natural materials such as small wooden sticks, pieces of wood, nets, corks, corrugated cardboard or other kinds of cardboard, spruce or pine bark, small stones, branches, leaves, cones, straws, twigs, hard berries, seeds.
Working surface:
Wood, an acrylic sheet, a waxed cloth, or some other material to cover the table with.
Tools:
- A lino roller, a wooden rolling pin, or another roller
- Fabric, cardboard or paper
- String, cord or yarn
- Paint brushes
- Lino ink, acrylic or textile paint
- Plastic knives or clay modelling tools
- Scissors