Curriculum Marja de Jong art director art centre Saksala ArtRadius Finland

1. marja de jong -art teacher and artist
1947 born in Rotterdam the Netherlands
1966-1969 kindergarten teacher Zwijndrecht
1969-2003 artist working in Zwijndrecht
1969-1972 art teacher Rotterdam
1970-2003 AllaprimA Art school for children and adults Zwijndrecht
1972-1975 academy of art Tilburg
1975-1997 art teacher teacher’s-training college Rotterdam
2003 founding art centre Saksala ArtRadius Haukivuori Finland
2003- artist working in Haukivuori
2004 start art education program Haukivuori
address:
Karhuntie 11
51600 Haukivuori
Finland
www.marjadejong.com
mobile +358 (0)50 4625 675
www.allaprima.org
www.saksala.org
email art@marjadejong.com atelier@marjadejong.com

2. exhibitions group
solo Cosa Delft
Amro bank Zwijndrecht Artifort Maastricht
Muziekmuseum Vlaardingen Bijenkorf Den Haag
Sheraton Hotel Geldrop WTC Amsterdam
Postiljon Motel Dordrecht Kultureel Sentrum Tilburg
Hotel van Maaren Didam galerie De Nunnikhof Ridderkerk
Keukenline Zwijndrecht teekengenootschap Pictura Dordrecht
de Jong Intra Vakanties Ridderkerk gemeentehuis Norderstedt Germay
de Leeuwenhorst Noordwijkerhout AllaprimA Museum Haukivuori Finland
galerie Witt Dordrecht Riihisaari Savonlinna Finland
galerie Casus Purmerend Museum Professional Education St Petersburg Russia
galerie Serruys Rotterdam
Leolux Eindhoven
Ichthus Hogeschool Rotterdam
burgerzaal gemeentehuis Zwijndrecht
galerie van Rotterdam Ridderkerk
Verkerk Installatietechniek Zwijndrecht
Veerplaat Zwijndrecht
AllaprimA gallery Zwijndrecht
AllaprimA MuseuM – Saksala ArtRadius Haukivuori
commissions
Boszicht Didam Keukenline Zwijndrecht Straks Zwijndrecht
Muller Zwijndrecht Mertens Oosterhout stichting gecombineerd
Vrolijk Zwijndrecht de Jong Teteringen woningbeheer Zwijndrecht
Verheij Leiden de Jong Tours Nissan-dealer de Waal
Rijsoord/Ridderkerk Rijsoord/Ridderkerk
Lavooij Rotterdam
artist’s societies:
member of Dutch artist’s societies member of Dutch artist’s societies
BBK BBK
Dutch Visual Artists Union Dutch Visual Artists Union
Teekengenootschap Pictura Teekengenootschap Pictura
Visual Artists Society Pictura Visual Artists Society Pictura

3. publications
clazien immink, schilder immink, Geldrop
(clazien immink, a painer immink Geldrop)
in beeld brengen Dijkstra Zeist
(making art Dijkstra Zeist)
kijk, als je tekent zie je meer NOT Hilversum
(look, if you draw you see more Dutch education broadcasting)
misschien ben jij het wel gedichten Jan ‘t Lam
illustraties Marja de Jong Leopold
(maybe it is you poems Jan ‘t Lam
illustrations Marja de Jong Leopold)
informatie beelden zwijndrecht stichting vriendenkring Beeldenpark
Drechtoevers Zwijndrecht
(information sculptures zwijndrecht foundation circle of friends sculpture park
Zwijndrecht)
zwijndrecht een beeld van een stad gemeente Zwijndrecht
(zwijndrecht a city with sculptures municipal of Zwijndrecht)
kindertekeningen, een beeldverhaal stichting AllaprimA Zwijndrecht
(children’s drawings, a story of images AllaprimA Foundation Zwijndrecht)
uit de kunst Delubas Drunen
(a way of art Delubas Drunen)
exhibitions child art
Tilburg NL 1975 art academy
Rotterdam NL 1981 INSEA congress
Gent-Belgium 1983 saint Peter’s abbey
Zwijndrecht-NL 1984 town hall
Rotterdam-NL 1995 Great or Saint Laurens Church
Rotterdam-Dordrecht-NL 1996 Ichthus Hogeschool (InHolland)
KUNSTHAL – ROTTERDAM – NL
Eindhoven-NL 1997 Fontys Hogeschool
Rotterdam-NL 2001 KUNSTHAL
Braga-Portugal 2002 university da Minho
Alkmaar-NL 2002 teacher training college (PABO)
The Hague-NL 2003 Ministry of Economic Affairs
Brielle- NL 2003 City Gallery
Vledder-NL 2003 MUSEUMS VLEDDER
Haukivuori-Finland 2005 AllaprimA MuseuM
Haukivuori-Finland 2008 AllaprimA MuseuM
UNIVERSITY BRAGA - PORTGAL

4. plans art education
In the many departments of the art centre Saksala A. archiving and exhibiting the collection of children’s
ArtRadius people can be found immersed in art, paintings and drawings (about 10 000 pieces) from the
craftsmanship, art research and art education. AllaprimA Foundation
In the department of art education the collection B. workshops for teachers to build up and develop their
children’s painting of the AllaprimA Foundation skills in art education
Holland will be used for: exhibitions, research, C. lectures for interested people to get information about
workshops, lectures, courses, and all kind of child art
promotion to support visual art in education. D. building a curriculum for art education in cooperation
To create a centre for developing art education it with Etelä-Savon Taidetoimikunta and education
needs: department of Mikkeli City
1. archive E. children’s forest for children to work together and to
2. museum create an own world of constructions
3. workplace/atelier F. children’s art LABYRINTH to (re)find the contact with
nature, art and the mystery of fairy tales
4. meeting room
5. computer hard- and software G. children’s art courses and workshops to develop the
6. presentation equipments artistic skills of children
8.printing equipments H. children’s sculpture park to introduce art works to
9. library children
10. nature area I. art events with and for children in the field of theater,
music, snow building and parades etc.
art and art education projects for children
With the start of art centre In 2005 start with exhibitions about CHILD ART in the AllaprimA MuseuM.
Saksala ArtRadius it is possible to In 2005 start of the art education project FLY IN THE SKY. (art) Teachers and
arrange different kind of children can paint and develop their skills in art and art education with the
projects, art activities, contribution of Etelä-Savon and Suomen Kulttuurirahasto
exhibitions, workshops, lectures, In 2006 start of the CHILDREN’S FOREST a place children can build their own
symposiums in the field of constructions with the contribution of Arts Council Finland
children’s culture and art In 2006 start of art workshops for primary and secondary schools, as a part of
education. an international exchange of artists
It is the intention to create a In 2007 and 2008 art education symposium NATURALLY ART. This project is in
centre based on the expertise cooperation with Etelä-Savon Taidetoimikunta.
of well-considered knowledge In 2007 start of OpeArtEdu a pilot project for teachers of primary and
in art education. That will be a secondary schools to develop their professional skills in art education and to
guarantee for an inviting and build up a curriculum for art education in cooperation with Etelä-Savon
inspiring development of Taidetoimikunta and Mikkelin Kaupunki.
CHILDREN AND ART. In 2009 planning of the CHILDREN’S ART LABYRINTH
In 2009 start projects art in nature during seasons

5. A FUTERE WITHOUT ART IS AN EMPTY BOTTLE
The future needs we have to think about the way we educate our children and see them as complete human beings. Educating by
thinking about economic and technical value of new generations is too less and will never bring the expect results.
Art has to be an integrated part in every one’s life and by art education a child can grow up completer than without it. Art education is
not the decoration, but an essential ingredient for being human. Basically it is not possible to expect people take risks, behave
responsible, are critical, can choose or are able to see what is going on in the world when they don’t have the content to be like that.
To know about a fundamental way of working with and by art it is necessary to know about the artistic way of thinking, study the results
of child art and build up and use good curriculums and methods.

6. about my artistic work
As long as I remember drawing is a part of my life. As a child you never have the idea the way you
exist is different and not like everybody’s life. It is like it is. In drawings and paintings I could be the one
I was. It was always an exciting moment to see the material transform into something you want.
Finger painting was not my way of thinking. I think already in the age of five I feel it was like an illusion.
You have to do it because it should make you free. From what? It has nothing to do with visualizing.
Except finger painting I liked all kinds of art work and I was and I am always curious to see what
happens when you do something unexpected. How is the material reacting? In what way you get
new ideas through it?
My art teacher during my study in the teacher’s training college was very important for me. His
enthusiasm and knowledge about art and art education inspire me until this day. Of course I go my
own independent way in my artistic work, but the fundament was build up during these years.
From the moment I start as a teacher art was an important issue of it. Working with children and see
how it is possible to develop their talents gives me all the time a positive impulse.
My artistic work is intensively related to the artistic work of children. Both are part of my way of
5 years old –finger painting- existing. Creating art by my self is the base of my life, it is what I am. Working with children, but also
I does not like it at all with adults, belongs to it.
My artistic way of working is to see what is already there and what can I do with it. The ideas are in
the subject and I am able to see and to visualize them. The material I work with has its own quality
and possibilities and together with my technique, my handwriting the paintings are created.
During the work I have always the feeling to be on a journey without exactly knowing where I will
arrive, the most exiting feeling.
Mono print is one of my favorite techniques. I like the process and working in layers and mixing
oil paint lustrum 2000 materials and see how the skin of the work get its special structure. Every time it gives new
perspectives and ways. I have many ways to work in it and still the possibilities did not end.
Oil paint I like because of its soft skin and the way you can work in transparent layers, but also with
relief by thick paint. The colors of oil paint are warmer than the acryl colors. That makes you had to
work different with both materials.
After living my whole life in the same place in the Netherlands, where I had my own art school, I
decided in 2002 to move to Finland and in 2003 I started an art centre in Haukivuori. It gives the same
feelings as painting, starting on a blanco spot without knowing anything and tries to arrange your life
in the same and new way.

7. Creating a place where I can exist and where other artists and interested people can come
together and contact to share and have new experiences is just like a big art work, once you start
you don’t where it ends. It gives new possibilities with every step you do.
My art work will change, because of the situation, the way it will change is not clear, therefore it is
too soon. In the way I am growing in the art centre is a promise for the time coming and the future
will show it.
In the mean time I continue with everything.
acrylic Finnish light sunset – sunrise 2007
stipendiums – awards and honours
2005 2005 2007 2008 2009
Etelä-Savon Suomen Suomen Haukivuoren Etelä-Savon
Kulttuurirahasto Kultuurirahasto Kulttuurirahasto Aluejohtokunta Kulttuurirahasto
3000€ 14000€ 28000€ 2000€
Haukivuori
citizen 2008

8. work in collection of:
Aardse Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel NL Elema Maren (Gr) NL Plomp Rijsoord/Ridderkerk NL
Aarsen Bleiswijk NL ESA KY Mikkeli FI van Pelt Houten NL
Baan Rotterdam NL Glaubitz Rotterdam NL Pearlman Johnson VT USA
de Back Capelle a/d Ijssel NL de Graaff Rijsoord/Ridderkerk NL Pluimert Zwijndrecht
Bazen Nieuwerkerk a/d Ijssel NL Guggenheim Boston MA USA Quaker Oats Zwijndrecht NL
Immink Rotterdam NL Rasila Tuusula FI
Ikävalko Nykälä FI van Rotterdam Ridderkerk NL
Iso-Mustajärvi Savitaipale FI van Setten den Haag NL
Jiskoot Zwijndrecht NL van Seventer Zwijndrecht NL
de Jong Tours Ridderkerk NL Victoria Dordrecht NL
de Jong Rijsoord/Ridderkerk NL Saloviin Haukivuori FI
de Jong Intra Vakanties Ridderkerk NL Sherman Boston MA USA
de Jong Teteringen NL Stolk Vlaardingen NL
de Jong Zwijndrecht NL Tims Barendrecht NL
de Jong Rotterdam NL Verheij Leiden NL
de Jong Tilburg NL Vermeulen Dordrecht NL
Katajarinna Helsinki FI Verweij Zwijndrecht NL
Kärki Mikkeli FI Villerius Rotterdam NL
Keukenline Zwijndrecht NL Villerius Gouda NL
Krommenhoek Rotterdam NL Vuorenmaa Helsinki FI
Kuijper Zwijndrecht NL Ylä-aste Haukivuori FI
Lampe Amsterdam NL v.d. Zouwen Zwolle NL
Benner Barendrecht NL
de Lange Dordrecht NL
Berndt Haukivuori NL
Macy Peterborough NH USA
Bomar Dordrecht NL
v.d. Meiden Molenaarsgraaf NL
Booij Tilburg NL
Mertens Venlo-Blerick NL
Bosch Zwijndrecht NL
Moilanen Haukivuori FI
Brouwers Amsterdam NL
Moisander Savonlinna FI
de Bruin Ridderkerk NL
de Mulder Nijmegen NL
de Bruin Rotterdam NL
Murphy Provincetown MA USA
Burggraaf Rotterdam NL
Nettel Dordrecht NL
Cordes Amsterdam NL
Niemeijer Zwijndrecht NL
Delubas Drunen NL
van Olphen Lelystad NL
Dijkstra Zeist NL
Osuuspankki Haukivuori FI
van Dongen Zwijndrecht NL
van Dongen H.I. Ambacht NL