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This project is part of a wider project aiming to help students become acquainted with the World Cultural Heritage and to familiarize themselves with the art of different cultures. The ultimate goal is to bring about an understanding of otherness and of diversity which will help students question the uniqueness and universality of their understanding of art, and to become acquainted with and appreciate different ways of creating meaning through Art. Students studied Australian aboriginal art, its’ symbols and function, its’ long history and its’ most recent forms. They used this knowledge to inform their own creations, reproducing Australian aboriginal paintings, or inspired by them. This familiarization with otherness through experience is bound to create deeper and stronger bridges of understanding. Art became an effective tool for promoting students’ understanding of themselves and their society as part of a diverse global community – a diversity some students are only beginning to perceive and appreciate.
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Ismini Sakellariadi
Ismini Sakellariadi has studied History and Archaeology as well as English Language and Literature in Greece, and Combined Studies (including Drama, Music and Dance) in the UK. Following ten years of formal and informal education and training in Fine Art and Ceramics, she completed postgraduate courses in Ceramics (University of London, Goldsmiths’ College) and in Social Anthropology (University of London, LSE). She teaches Art at the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki. She has participated in Ceramics, Photography and Printmaking exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She has collaborated with the School of Early Childhood Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, teaching Ceramics and assisting with the tuition of undergraduate courses on Visual Arts and Art Education. She has also taught Ceramics to Art Teachers. Her publications include articles for IMAG and for InSEA publications.
