Improbank – Artistic Tools for Schools is a two-year project that aims to create a new participatory art activity model for school environments for children and young people in Central Finland. The project has two main objectives: to maintain children’s and young people’s access to contemporary art through visiting performances and workshops, and to provide schools with functional and user-friendly tools for guiding and sustaining art content even after the actual visits.
The working model will be developed in collaboration with selected schools in Central Finland. As part of the project, a resource bank supporting the continuity of art activities will be created. The goal is to identify the most suitable and meaningful content for schools’ self-directed activities and to understand which tools and exercises are most needed in everyday school life. In this way, we create opportunities to experience art through doing and participation.
The model will be developed for both primary and lower secondary school environments during 2025 in cooperation with Koskenpää School (Jämsä) and Nisulanmäki School (Muurame). In 2026, the concept and the material bank will be piloted in several schools across Central Finland. The project is led by Jukka Tarvainen, an experienced workshop facilitator for children and young people, and a long-time dancer-choreographer involved with Off/Balance.
The Impropankki project is funded by the Regional Council of Central Finland.
