Angelica Höglund

The accessibility of materials in and around the art classroom.

I remember being so excited to get to have a class in a real art classroom for the first time. In primary school, my class had art lessons in our regular classroom and now, finally, we students, along with our mentor, would get to go across the schoolyard to the building where the school’s arts and crafts room was located. Until now, I’d only looked in through these windows from the schoolyard to see how it looked, but most of all: What kinds of materials could I make out?

In my independent project, I’ve studied photographs from different art classrooms throughout Sweden to see similarities and differences between how the materials are stored and exposed. I then processed the images and brought them to a workshop for other Teacher Education students at Konstfack, where they worked based on the images and discussed questions such as: How does the visibility of the materials affect the students’ creative process? What and how does the storage of the material communicate to us?