The Creative Connections project’s aim is to explore and develop ways of increasing understanding European identity among children and young people. One of the schools participating in Creative Connections was the multicultural Sami school in the most northern municipality in Finland, Utsjoki, the only municipality in Finland where Sami people are in majority. The presentation focuses on this case as an example of the research accomplished through interaction between the international project and visual art teacher education at the University of Lapland with an approach of participatory action research. Art Students are increasingly working together in the projects as part of their studies with experts of different fields, groups of citizens, and other communities. In this presentation we examine one case and discuss about the points of departure in it: the constructive and processual nature of subject positions and identities as well as the hybrid and overlapping, embedded identities. The Case Utsjoki gives the subject a voice of borderland regions with the special conditions of northern Finland in mind. This presentation makes visible the art education and research taking place in the context of Finnish art teacher education and links it with the national and international discourse of the field.