The Nordic Center of Duluth presents the work of Finnish master printmaker Jaana Erkkilä-Hill. She is a visual artist, researcher and professor of visual arts at the University of Lapland in Finland.

The Nordic Center
23 N Lake Ave
Duluth, MN 55802

Finnish artist Jaana Erkkilä-Hill creates work that reflects the spiritual and religious experiences of life, looking beyond culture, time, and circumstance to try to access a deeply-felt and experienced connection to the spiritual. She sees her creative practice as a means to ask questions, philosophically examining what is seen and unseen. Drawing from art history, nature, and society, Erkkilä-Hill combines the everyday and the sacred, the visible and the invisible world in search of what lies at the core.

Jaana Erkkilä-Hill is a visual artist, researcher and professor of visual arts at the University of Lapland in Finland. In her more than thirty years of artistic practice she has focused on printmaking including both woodcuts and linocuts, mastering the process of layering color and imagery. In recent years her academic research has focused on artist pedagogy.

Presenter Bio: Finlandia Art Gallery Director and Curator Carrie VanderVeen.