Per Isak Nikolaus Juuso, born 1 May 1953 in Karesuando parish,

Norrbotten County Norrbotten County (, Meänkieli/, ) is the northernmost county or '' län'' of Sweden. It is also the largest county by land area, almost a quarter of Sweden's total area. It shares borders with Västerbotten County to the southwest, the Gulf ...

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, is a Swedish-

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artisan and teacher.

Biography

Per Isak Juuso grew up in Mertajärvi, south of

Karesuando Karesuando (; or ; Northern Sámi: ; Meänkieli: ''Karesuanto'') is the northernmost locality in Sweden. It is situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 303 inhabitants in 2010 and 350 in 2011. It is a church village, l ...

. His parents were active

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and he learned to be an artisan from them. He trained to become a silversmith, then furthered his education in metal and design, the latter for the textile artist Wanja Djanaieff. He has also studied

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in

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. Juuso has worked in metal, wood, horn, leather and textiles and has been a leading developer of modern Sámi handicrafts (daidda duodji). He has worked as a Sámi handicraft teacher at the Sámi Folk High School in

Jokkmokk Jokkmokk () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sámi name of the place (compos ...

and then as a teacher in

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(the traditional Sámi handicraft) part-time at the Sámi University in Kautokeino. Juuso lives and works in Mertajärvi, where he has his studio. He received a Sámi Artists' Council work scholarship of 200,000 Norwegian kroner in January 2012. He has had exhibitions of his work in Sápmi, Canada, Japan, USA and Iceland, and his works have been bought by government and public bodies as well as by private collectors.

References

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