Henrika Ylirisku

Henrika has been teaching visual arts since 2002 in diverse educational contexts and has worked over the years with students of all ages. Her most extensive teaching experience is in higher education and art schools for children and young people. Furthermore, she has taught in upper secondary schools and offered courses and workshops in vocational training and at universities of applied sciences. Henrika’s teaching expertise ranges from various forms of artistic practices (e.g., place-responsive drawing, walking art, environmental art) to the theories and methodologies of art and art education.

Henrika has been teaching at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture since 2015 and is a university lecturer in art education in the Department of Art and Media. Recently, she has been teaching courses on environmental art education, research methods of art education, didactics of art education, and historical and philosophical foundations of education. She has supervised and advised numerous bachelor’s and master’s theses and is open to advising doctoral students.

Henrika frequently gives talks and organizes events around issues of environmental art education, posthumanist/more-than-human art education, multispecies entanglements, and post-qualitative and artistic research methodologies.