In a time when art education in Sweden is no longer considered a central and irreplaceable part of children’s and young adult education, we believe it has become even more urgent to share the variety of practices that students from the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education have developed during their 5-year tenure at Konstfack. Art teachers are the pillars of higher art education, and throughout the years, the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education has contributed invaluably to cultivating deep and sustained engagements in the arts throughout Sweden and to its most distant corners.
The 30 students presented here today are facing the complex task of formalizing theoretical academic research while cultivating, integrating, and presenting their own artistic practice. How can five years of pedagogical and theoretical research be translated, made public, made visible, outside of the classroom? What form does that study take?
In addition to physical display, this year’s Degree Exhibition, includes The Dialogical Space which serves as an opportunity for students to think about their work beyond the physical, enabling performative, collective and participatory engagements. Many of the students within the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education have taken it upon themselves to think differently about how processes can be shared with the wider public and have created works exclusively within The Dialogical Space. Others have decided to stay within visual artistic representation and have been dedicatedly working to give form to the intersection of physical expression and embodied / theoretical pedagogy.
Please join us in engaging and celebrating the students who will soon receive their Degree of Master of Arts in Upper Secondary Education.
Res and Krisztián Gábor Török, CuratorLab
In a time when art education in Sweden is no longer considered a central and irreplaceable part of children’s and young adult education, we believe it has become even more urgent to share the variety of practices that students from the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education have developed during their 5-year tenure at Konstfack. Art teachers are the pillars of higher art education, and throughout the years, the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education has contributed invaluably to cultivating deep and sustained engagements in the arts throughout Sweden and to its most distant corners.
The 30 students presented here today are facing the complex task of formalizing theoretical academic research while cultivating, integrating, and presenting their own artistic practice. How can five years of pedagogical and theoretical research be translated, made public, made visible, outside of the classroom? What form does that study take?
In addition to physical display, this year’s Degree Exhibition, includes The Dialogical Space which serves as an opportunity for students to think about their work beyond the physical, enabling performative, collective and participatory engagements. Many of the students within the Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education have taken it upon themselves to think differently about how processes can be shared with the wider public and have created works exclusively within The Dialogical Space. Others have decided to stay within visual artistic representation and have been dedicatedly working to give form to the intersection of physical expression and embodied / theoretical pedagogy.
Please join us in engaging and celebrating the students who will soon receive their Degree of Master of Arts in Upper Secondary Education.
Res and Krisztián Gábor Török, CuratorLab
