From Art to Empowerment by Annette Luycx

Annette Luycx, MEd, MSc, is an artist and freelance art educator from the Netherlands living and working in Greece. She has taught collage, mixed media, and ceramics in Athens to people of all ages and abilities for the past twenty years at schools and cultural centers. She is specialized in artistic coaching and artistic talent development. The purpose of her teaching practice is to support artists, art students and creatives in gaining increased self-awareness and understanding of their individual creative process, as well as to promote artistic growth and development of their artistic voice. She has been studying and exploring the link between artistic expression and self-awareness in the visual arts, dance, and theater her whole life. In 2014 she created the IRIS ART CENTRE, a center for adult art education specialized in the development of personal artistic voice. Here, she organizes summer art workshops and artist coaching residencies, in the Greek countryside about twenty miles north from the center of Athens. www.irisartcentre.com

Annette Luycx holds a master's degree in sociology and women's studies from the University of Amsterdam, a postdoctoral degree in cultural management from Paris Dauphine University, and a master's degree in art education from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She has traveled extensively and studied fine arts, theater, and ceramics with international artists and art educators. She has participated with collages, photomontages, prints, and ceramics in group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Athens, Boston, Baltimore, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Prague, and Paris. www.annetteluycx.com