Raisio Art School for Children and Youth

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Raisio Art School for Children and Youth

The Art School offers goal-oriented, progressive basic education in visual arts for children and young people aged 7–18.

The studies provide opportunities for making, experiencing, and enjoying art. In class, students engage in hands-on activities, experiment with materials and learn how to use them, practice creating images, explore images, media phenomena, and the visual environment around them. The goal of the general syllabus is to promote joy in learning, motivation for studies, and creative thinking.

Teaching at the Art School is guided by the curriculum of the Raisio Art School for Children and Youth, based on the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education in the Arts set by the Finnish National Agency for Education.

Art School groups are taught by Tarja Orvokki Virtanen and Tiia Salmelin. The preparatory group is taught by Tiia Salmelin. The groups meet at Kylä-Klemelä (Hulvelankatu 35, Raisio). Teaching language is Finnish.

Study groups 2025–2026

The Art School has 5–6 basic groups and two themed groups that vary each year. The number of basic groups may vary depending on the number of students each year.

Shared studies:

  • Me and Images
  • Shapes in Nature
  • Observation and Perception
  • Past and Present
  • The Visual World of the Environment
  • The Time of Images

Thematic studies:

  • Drawing Workshop
  • Plastic Design and Construction Workshop

Preparatory group

In the Art School’s preparatory group for 6-year-olds, children are introduced to artistic phenomena through playful activities.

Applications for the preparatory group are submitted electronically. If there are more applicants than available places, student places will be allocated by lottery.

Fees and cancellations

The semester fee for the Art School is 71 € (142 € per academic year), and the sibling discount is 20 €. The course fee for the preparatory group will be announced in the course programme.

Registration is binding. You may cancel your registration free of charge if there are at least 7 days before the start of the course.

Registration also applies to the spring semester. The spring semester can be cancelled free of charge by contacting the institute office before teaching begins.

Absence from lessons or notifying only the teacher does not constitute a valid cancellation.

Registration and applications

New students can apply for a place electronically starting from 16 June.

Continuing students must also register online.

We will inform the students’ guardians about admissions and group allocations by email by the afternoon of Tuesday, 26 August.

Available places can be inquired about from the Raisio-opisto office throughout the year.

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