Dear You Art Project

Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project

In the Press

Yle interviews participating schools in Finland and in Australia
Interview with Arlene Tucker, Ottiya Empathy Issue Contributor
The Art of Blending-When learning, playing and technology come successfully together
Intercultural Exchange – Travel With Your Students Without Leaving the Classroom
5 Ways to Take Document Cameras Beyond Documents
ARLENE TUCKER with DEAR YOU at Ahja preschool
Wow! I can't believe Dear You was written about in a local Danish newspaper!  Tatjana Knudsen is a great art teacher and I am so thankful to have been able to work with her.

Publications

Tucker, Arlene. “Dear You: A Letter With Love” on HundrED, November 2020.

Tucker, Arlene. “Me + You = Us” in Ottiya Empathy Issue, November 2019.

Artemeva, Anastasia & Tucker, Arlene. “Dear You: Shared Spheres in Creative Spaces.” Synnyt-Origins, InSEA Congress 2018: Scientific and Social Interventions in Art Education, edited by Mira Kallio-Tavin and Oleksandra Sushchenko. Aalto University Wiki, 2018, pp 891-892.

Awards

2020, HundrED. Dear You is 1 out of 11 to be awarded brightest innovations that focus on Visual Art education. In collaboration with Supercell
2019, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dear You works with local teachers and schools in Bogotá and in Tumaco
2017, Taiteen, kulttuurin ja oppimisen edistämisen keskus ry (Museum of Impossible Forms), school workshops and events in Kontula
2016, Taiteen Edistämiskeskus, travel grant to present Dear You at In Dialogue, Nottingham, UK
2014, Taiteen Edistämiskeskus, children's cultural promotion
2014, NAPA – Nordens institut i Grønland

Residencies

October 2019, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dear You: bridging Colombia and Finland. Bogotá & Tumaco, Colombia
August to December 2017, Museum of Impossible Forms. Helsinki, Finland