Professor of service design, dean Satu Miettinen, professor of textiles Heidi Pietarinen, and docent Melanie Sarantou will perform as September artists of the Faculty of Arts at Galleria Lovisa. The 150 Years of Ecofeminist Art exhibition will be on display on the walls of the gallery located next to Coffee shop Lovisa throughout September. Welcome to get to know! Satu Miettinen’s (50 years old) photo series “Summer fades in the microscope,” completed in 2022, was shot with an iPhone 12 Pro and a microscope lens from the edges of meadows during summer walks. The microscope opens up a new world to the details of familiar plants and the insects that use them: heather, bee, bumblebee, blueberry, sedge, sedge, and so on. Shooting with a microscope lens requires patience and manual adjustment. Catching a bumblebee requires foresight. The microscope focuses randomly during walks. The hazy summer color scheme is captured in the pictures. The details of the home landscape are valuable and perfect parts of the natural ecosystem. The motifs and colors of the jacquard fabrics “Two Hundred Chickens” and “Mirror Image,” completed in 2019-2022 by Heidi Pietarinen (50 years old on Runeberg’s day), are based on the artist’s image of the textiles in her grandparents’ home. The grandparents went to the evacuation center twice from the village of Nieminen in the rural municipality of Sortavala. The colors, shapes, texture, rhythm, and scale of woven patterns are just one side of layered and double-sided fabrics. Although they are in the name of one creator, the art-oriented process is not limited to one person. Several layers of color and material and interwoven stories form a collage that describes the authorship made together, told to others, and thus also shared together. Through the work, Pietarinen celebrates cultural diversity, where material-oriented design, a living design tool, and shared authorship play a key role. Melanie Sarantou (50) is interested in understanding the performative aspects of textiles. Sarantou’s “Roots Quilting” works from 2022 consist of three-dimensional felted textiles, where shapes and surfaces are quilted together with the help of organic material’s root growth