Visual Arts Education
Porvoo Art School offers basic arts education for children and young people in Nikkilä and Söderkulla in accordance with the extended syllabus in visual arts. In addition, the art school organises weekend and summer courses, to which adults are also welcome. The school teaches students to use a wide range of materials in a variety of ways, to work together and to appreciate their own and other students' work.
Basic information and legislation
Basic education in the arts is primarily intended for children and young people. The education is offered at art schools and adult education centres. It is goal-oriented, and progresses from one level to the next.
Basic education in the arts provides the students with capabilities for expressing themselves by artistic means and, should they wish, enables them to apply for a place in vocational and third-level education in the field of arts in question.
The education may be provided by municipalities, joint municipal authorities, associations, foundations and state institutions. The education is based on the nine principles of general and extensive syllabi defined for arts in the national core curriculum.