Kokkinaki Katerina

Katerina Kokkinaki is a graduate of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008) with a degree in painting and an Intergrated Master’s degree from the same school. She is a graduate of the Interior Architecture Department of the School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies of TEI of Athens (2000). She is a PhD candidate from 2021 at the Department of Interior Architecture, School of Applied Arts and Culture, PADA, with a thesis topic: “Arts as cultural representations and social practice in primary education. Teaching primary school students aesthetics and culture, a tool for emotional and social development”, investigating issues related to the formation of the aesthetic experience of young students in their everyday life in relation to their interaction with space and object. She is a member of the auxiliary teaching staff of the same school while she teaches the visual arts course at Ralleia Experimental Primary Schools, is in charge of the Visual Arts Group for students and the Educational training for young art teachers in the visual arts course (Mentoring), while at the same time she carries out her experimental applications in the same school. She has been teaching in primary and secondary schools for the last thirteen years the subjects of Visual Arts, Drawing and Art History, and has been a lecturer in Art&Design colleges and schools in the subjects of Decorative Applications, Perspective Drawing & Sketch and Colour in Space. She has implemented pilot projects, innovative school projects and European projects, many of them with a focus on the use of digital environments. In addition, she has presented and coordinated experiential workshops on educational topics at conferences and her research work has been presented in scientific journals. As a visual artist she has held three solo exhibitions, has participated in Art Athina and Pop Art of the same event as a selected artist, in the 1st Biennale of Thessaloniki, in the Athens Video Arts Festival and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, as well as presentations and entries in the Greek and international press.