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Sonja Tanrisever
SONJA TANRISEVERSonja Böhlander Tanrisever is a Swedish Turkish freelance artist living in Istanbul since 46 years. At the same time, she teaches children and adults in art, besides writing poems a...view moreSONJA TANRISEVERSonja Böhlander Tanrisever is a Swedish Turkish freelance artist living in Istanbul since 46 years. At the same time, she teaches children and adults in art, besides writing poems and articles mainly focused on educational matters.As a young person in Sweden, she received education in art and pedagogy (sculpture, drawing, painting and textile design). Simultaneously she had started gathering children and youngsters in her studio for their obtaining experiences in art making. As still working together with children, by now 57 years have passed since then. She found opportunity to set up an art school for adults within Swedish workers educational association (ABF) as well as participating in her first exhibitions.During her later life with family in Turkey, above mentioned basic fields of activities have been further developed, like own art (6 one-man shows and 22 group exhibitons), teaching adults in art. She has also been lucky of setting up her therapeutic rehabilitation section for adults at a university hospital psychiatry clinic in Istanbul. Her main occupations in teaching though, have been establishing many kinds of creative environments for young persons from various sociocultural standards of living. These has become realized as a kind of “building bridges” within different leading cultural and educational institutions sometimes between nations. Often such involvements have had character of connecting institutions with one another. In this context, particularly teachers’ training has been a vital interest.Through contribution of a certain established blend of Swedish Turkish art pedagogical model, by time it’s influences have come at least to a certain degree get gradually ramified within the country. For the time being besides working in her own studio on pictorial / sculptural weavings, she is actively working as art consultant in a private kindergarten (AKD American Cultural Association), pa private primary school (Harvard International American College, Istanbul) and TYSA (Life Therapy Art Association in Istanbul). Among her publications can be found;•Tanrisever Sonja “Cultural Bridges Between Countries” ET-RF, 2004.•Tanrisever Sonja “SKYGD” (Experiments In Supporting Social & Cultural Life) “Programs For Art Studios, Importance Of Creating For Child And Youngster and Their Relations With Material”, 2009.•Tanrisever Sonja “Integration and Playfulness For Children In Art Pedagogical Education” InSEA On Bridge 7th European Regional Congress, Istanbul, Capadocia, Turkey 01-06 July 2004, Pages 252-263.•Tanrisever Sonja “Innovations In Children’s Art Education” Yildiz Teknik University “Muzecilik ve Egitim” Kadriye T. Akmehmet 2003, Pages 63-75.In these days, together with her daughter Esin Tanrisever she is about to publish an E-Book “Introduction To Free Art Learning With Kids”She is a regular artical writer in an online magazine “Children On Earth” of American Cultural Association (http://dunyadacocuk.com/).Artist is a board member of UPSD (International Society of Plastic Arts), member of InSEA (International Society For Education Through Art), SKYGD (Association for Development of Social and Cultural Life) and AREM (European Rehabilitation Center. Pieces of her art works do take place at collections in different parts of the World.Upon Sonja’s Art works: “Artists’ works may be associated with travelling... Dreamlike states of journeys between different dimensions of time and space. Outlines vanish and borders between dream and reality, past-time/ present time gets overlapped into each other. Lines, colors, shapes and textures come to symbolize Artist’s thoughts and emotions.In usual dreams one more or less drifts along in uncontrollable sequences of events. Also artists in ‘dream’ state, ‘witnesses’ in a kind of awake condition stuff that dreams are made of: fragmentary images of experienced perceptions from past or present life. These now gather together, get confronted, reborn and embodied into pieces of art.”view less