Timo Jokela

Timo Jokela is a visual artist and Professor of Art Education in the University of Lapland in Finland. His artistic activities and theoretical academic studies focus on phenomenological, social and culture political relationship between northern and Arctic cultures, nature and art. He works as a socially engaged environmental artist, often using natural materials, snow and ice and the local cultural heritage as a starting point for his works. His art-based research project projects have approached questions of decolonization, revitalization and sustainability in the rapidly changing North and the Arctic. Jokela has been responsible of several regional, national and international circumpolar art-based research projects and his art has been exhibited widely in Europa and Circumpolar North. Currently he works as University of the Arctic’s Chair of Art, Design and Culture and the lead of Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design (ASAD).