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How does fine art fit into the school subject of visual arts? Which discourses emerge when visual arts teachers talk about fine art? With an underlying (and almost forbidden) conception of the obscure fine art, I examine its place in the subject of visual arts. At Konstfack’s Degree Exhibition 2026, I am exhibiting sculptural works… Continue reading Anna-Beda Maslanka

What thoughts and feelings stir in the minds of teenage students as they’re about to create during art class, when the pencil seems to be stuck hovering above the paper and nothing gets done? I’ve researched this phenomenon, often referred to as ‘art block’, through interviews with students during a workshop. Their words and paintings… Continue reading Amanda Hedenberg

I have always wanted to give life to my visual fantasies, and feel that animation helps me to express them. Meeting other animators with similar motivations has made me feel that I belong somewhere. In my degree project, I have examined animation teachers’ thoughts on teaching animation, the purpose of animation, and AI as a… Continue reading Alice Aljaffar

“An Angry Cloud” is an abstract work in which I examine my own feelings in relation to my degree project. My written degree project addresses experiences of visual arts creation between art teachers and art therapists. The idea for my creative work therefore comes from an exercise I did with an art therapist.

This degree project revolves around art teachers and how they work from an intercultural perspective. A number of interviews were conducted with primary school teachers, and one of the questions asked was: ‘Which artists are usually included in your teaching?’ These portraits were created based on their answers concerning which artists are represented in the… Continue reading Agnes van Bennekom Ahlström

Through the lens of my camera, I have explored the town of Överkalix, a small town deep in northern Sweden, in Norrbotten, where I grew up – a place where the sun never sets. In doing so, I have sought to capture the landscape and built environment, and to portray them in my own way.… Continue reading Saga Brännström

Syncopation is a rhythmic displacement, a shifted emphasis, a deviation in the beat where something falls slightly outside what is expected. Perhaps that is also where the work moves, in a kind of displacement between attention, language, and the conditions under which something might become recognisable. The work takes its point of departure from a… Continue reading Sabina Askelius

During my placement period (VFU internship), I met students who showed an insecurity about their own ability to create. It often found expression in how they talked about their work, with statements such as “I can’t” or “what I do is ugly”. “jag kan inte” eller “det jag gör blir fult”.

Paper as a medium and material. The agency of the paper and our intra-actions with it.

‘Make something you could show your grandmother without feeling ashamed.’ This is often how the boundary for what is considered ‘acceptable’ to depict in art education is expressed. Yet what is perceived as acceptable is not always clear. It is constantly shifting, being negotiated, and tested in relation to norms, values and context. In art… Continue reading Charlie Lennartsson