General Art, Crafts and Design
General Art, Crafts and Design is a broad basic education for those who want to explore art, craft and design, but have not yet decided on a direction. Here you will have the opportunity to work with many different materials and techniques, and to develop your vision, your sense of form and your understanding of artistic processes.
The teaching is based on practical work in the school’s workshops and studios, where you delve into different materials and expressions over longer course periods. The focus is on artistic exploration, process and manual work, combined with reflection and discussion about method and design.
Drawing and painting play a central role and give you a solid foundation in vision, color and composition, which you then use in both free and more controlled projects. The assignments often end with joint presentations or exhibitions where you get to share experiences and develop your way of talking about your work.
The education provides good preparation for further studies in, for example, art, crafts, design, architecture, illustration, furniture and interior design, and emphasizes the school’s unique focus on materials, crafts and artistic processes.
Subjects and materials
Drawing and painting I 3.6 weeks
Drawing and painting II 3.6 weeks
Drawing and painting III 3.6 weeks
Sculpture – 3.8 weeks
Moving pictures – 3.8 weeks
Ceramics – 3.8 weeks
Metalwork – 3.8 weeks
Woodwork – 3,8 weeks
Textile form – 3.8 weeks
Textile printing – 3.8 weeks
Lectures in art and design – 0.8 weeks
Group dynamics – 0.8 weeks
Digital photo and image processing – 1.0 weeks
Study visits to galleries and museums are obvious elements and are included in most courses.
FAQ
- What is the advantage of the program General Art, Crafts and Design?
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If you haven’t profiled or niched yourself yet, but have a great appetite for creation, General Art, Crafts and Design is the perfect choice for you. You get to work creatively in a wide range of different materials, subjects and techniques. General Art, Crafts and Design is perhaps Sweden’s broadest preparatory, artistic education.
Chances are you’ll find your way. Or you want to seriously test your interest for a year, whether it is something that is an area that you want to continue to train and work in or not.
- Are your courses eligible for student aid?
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Study funds are granted for the one-year programs at what CSN calls post-upper secondary level. Our educations are categorized as Arts and Culture courses by CSN. The quota for study funds for studies at so-called post-upper secondary level is a total of two years (80 weeks) if you have a three-year upper secondary education or the equivalent previously.
The total number of weeks you have to apply for student funding applies to both grants and student loans. This means that even if you do not take out a loan for all the weeks, but only take the grant, the weeks are counted as used.
For studies at university level, the maximum period for study support is 240 weeks. This quota applies to those who apply to the two-year Specialist Craft Tutor program. The Specialist Craft Tutor program is also categorized as Arts and Culture course though.
For the academic year 2026-27, if you who are a student and born in 2007 or later, you can choose for yourself whether you want to take study aid (right now it is a small grant – SEK 1,250/month) or whether you want to apply for study funds with grants and loans. If you take study aid, you can also apply for extra supplements and / or boarding supplements via CSN.
- What eligibility do I need to have in order to apply for your programs?
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We have no formal eligibility requirements for grades. Our supervisory authority Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education leaves this matter of eligibility requirements very open. We have formulated ourselves fairly openly based on the interpretation of the authority’s directive: In order to apply for course entrance at Nyckelviksskolan, the applicant must have upper secondary school qualifications (high school education), equivalent education or have gained a certain amount of work experience.
- Do you have to pay tuition fees or semester fees for your programs?
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Many Arts and Culture courses are only partially financed by state grants. The student must pay tuition fees (or semester fees).
The semester fee for the academic year 2026-27 is SEK 19,950, i.e. SEK 39,900 for the entire academic year. The sum includes, among other things, the material that you work with in the training. The fee is paid semesterly.
If you are applying for student financing, you may also apply for an additional cost loan for the tuition fee if necessary.
- How are your programs categorized?
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We are between high school and university. Nyckelviksskolan provides one-year university preparation programs (40 weeks) in art, crafts, architecture and design as well as a two-year vocational Art and Craft Pedagogy program (80 weeks). Our programs are formally called Arts and Culture courses (Konst- och kulturutbildningar) and we are under the supervision of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education.
Please note that the vocational Art and Craft Pedagogy program is not a higher vocational education (YH), but an Arts and Culture course (Konst- och kulturutbildning).
- Do you have accommodation at the school, boarding school?
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The school does not have boarding, but we receive many offers on available rooms and apartments, especially on Lidingö, and are happy to pass them on to interested students. We send out housing ads and give tips on how our students can most easily find somewhere to live.
Nyckelviksskolan’s student union is connected to Stockholm’s students’ central organization (SSCO) and you can get help arranging accommodation through SSCO. All students are connected to Nyckelviksskolan’s student union. This gives them the right to live in student apartments that Stockholm Student Housing (SSSB) has. Read more: www.sssb.se/en
Akademisk kvart is a housing portal that directly addresses students. Academic quarter strives to provide live-in and second-hand solutions that have a reasonable rent level in relation to students’ general finances. Read more: https://www.akademiskkvart.se/en/
Everyone who studies in art and culture education has the right to live in Kista Studentbostäder, which is mediated by Stockholms Bostadsförmedling (The Stockholm Housing Agency). However, some other student housing managers do not approve our type of education to live there.
- When do your programs start? When do the take place?
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We have the start of the academic year once a year, in mid-August. Next time we start on August 17, 2026.
The programs are full-time and the compulsory teaching takes place Monday to Friday at 9.00-15.45. In addition, there is time for self-study.
The academic year 2026-27 is August 17, 2026 to May 28, 2027. An academic year is 40 study weeks with 180 teaching days and 20 self-study days.
- Can you start working after these studies?
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Our one-year programs are university preparatory Art and culture programs (Konst- och kulturutbildningar). You are not finished after such an education with us. The educational paths are quite long in this area – art, craft, architecture and design. You get the necessary skills to be able to continue at a design school, art school or architecture school and three or five more years of study.
If you have architectural dreams, we have programs where you get the skills to enter an architectural bachelor program via Arkitektprovet (the Architect test).
We don’t just want to emphasize that our students go on to design, art and architecture university programs. In recent years, we have noticed that many higher education programs that our students are interested in lie in a borderland between creativity, design and technology. Examples of such are educations for game, web and digital application development as well as design engineering educations.
On the other hand, we have an Art and Craft Pedagogy program that leads to jobs, even if it is also an Art and Culture course (Konst- och kulturutbildning) and not a higher vocational education (YH). The Art and Craft Pedagogy program also does not give a teacher’s license if you want to work as an art or crafts teacher in school.