Maria Huhmarniemi

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Artist, researcher, teacher

Maria Huhmarniemi, Doctor of Arts, serves as Vice-Dean for Education and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland. Her work focuses on art and research that promote sustainability transformations. She develops Arctic art and art education and creates socially and ecologically engaged art that employs art-based methods to address societal challenges.

Huhmarniemi holds a title of docent at the University of Eastern Finland, the UArctic Chair in Arctic Art and Design, and the leader of the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design network. She has She has published over 50 peer-reviewed research articles or chapters and has also served as an editor of academic publications.

Huhmarniemi has also held numerous positions of trust in the art world and in local politics. She resides part-time in Rovaniemi, Finland, and in Muodoslompolo, Pajala Municipality, in northern Sweden.

Gallery of artworks

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Selected exhibitions

2025 – Observations of Change, group exhibition, Havermagasinet, Boden, Sweden
2025 – Snowball Effect 5 – Northern Gaze, juried exhibition, Kemi Art Museum, Kemi
2024 – Shifting Ground, juried exhibition, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
2024 – Embroidered Stances, group exhibition, Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä
2023 – Mäntän äärellä, invited artist in a curated group exhibition, Mänttä
2021 – ISEAS group exhibition, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
2021 – Counter Cartographies, invited artist in a curated group exhibition, Anchorage Museum, USA
2021 – Art Cave Saimaa Retretti, invited artist in a curated group exhibition, Retretti, Saimaa
2018 – Shared Woollen Sceneries, group exhibition, Tate Liverpool, UK
2017 – Interwovengroup exhibition, Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Research Group

NACER conducts research in the academic discipline of art education, including visual art education in schools, educational institutions and universities. Research interests also include visual art of traditional Indigenous and other-than-Indigenous arts and contemporary collaborative art forms.

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Research Publications

Arctic art education in changing nature and culture

The interconnection between the ecological and the cultural is evident in the Arctic. Thus, we propose the term ecoculture to highlight the connection of communities to places. – Timo Jokela & Maria Huhmarniemi

Arctic Art and Material Culture: Northern Knowledge and Cultural Resilience in Northernmost Europe

‘Handmade’, place-making, revitalisation and regional development are topical themes in the research of art and culture in the Arctic. – Maria Huhmarniemi & Timo Jokela

Maria Huhmarniemi appointed as UArctic Chair in Arctic Art and Design

UArctic Chairs are highly qualified academics nominated by the University of the Arctic. They serve as academic drivers in a broad area of relevance to the Arctic.

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