Wide Range and Dedicated Teachers
The Royal Institute of Art’s workshops are a starting point for our students to develop and actualize their projects and ideas. We have the country’s largest selection of workshops. The range of techniques spans from print-making, painting and sculpture to video, audio, VR/AR, and digital form-making.
In addition to materials and equipment, our dedicated teachers are another very important resource in the workshops. They are professional artists, for the most part, with an understanding of the artistic work and its related processes. They provide the students with foundational technology- and material courses, as well as individual supervision. With the help of the teachers, the students can work towards creating a sketch, model, experiment, or artwork.
3D Lab
The 3D Lab provides the opportunity to work with 3D-modeling, -animation, -printing, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). The 3D lab is also developing a 3D-printer for wax, to be used by students working with wax, glass and bronze.
Workshop Manager: Martin Christensen
Mechatronics
The Mechatronics Workshop lets the students experiment and develop projects within electronics, mechanics and interactivity. This includes everything from moving sculptures to sound installations. Here, students can either simply build with scrap metal, or create more advanced constructions with their own circuitry, industrial components, programmed mini-computers and control systems. In the workshop, there is a 3D-printer, plus soldering and lab equipment. Above all, there are a number of machine- and mechanical-components (among others) that can be borrowed to actualize these projects.
Workshop Manager: Andreas Hammar
Laser
The Laser Studio provides instruction in laser-cutting technology from an artistic perspective. Here, the students explore different technologies and possibilities within 2D and 3D, as well as digital and analogue expressions of art. Here, it is possible to laser-cut or laser-etch various materials with the help of programmed control systems and auxiliary programs for laser-cutting machines.
In the Laser Studio, we encourage the use of various organic and environmentally friendly materials and working methods. Approved materials include paper, cardboard, wood, plywood, acrylic, natural fabrics, wool felt, natural leather and metal.
The Laser Studio offers laser-cutters WS1390M (metal and non-metal) – 260W C02 and WS1309XLS – 80W C02, plus the software Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Metal Cut and RD Works V8.
Workshop Manager: Guangjuan Zhang
Glass
The Glass Workshop provides students with the opportunity to work with many different technologies within the area of glass. The workshop is equipped with light tables, sandblast cabinets, glass grinding machines, glass saws and burners. There is a smaller repository for float glass, glass fusing, enamel paint and cast glass. The Glass Workshop also includes both larger and smaller fusing ovens, a cold glass oven and two ceramic ovens, where students who work with ceramics get help firing their works.
Workshop Manager: Ulrika Gustafsson Rosengren
Metal
The Metal Workshop is adapted for forging, sheet-metal and welding work, as well as for mechanical processes. It is possible to work with most metals, such as steel, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, bronze and brass. In addition to the sculptural fabrication of metal, the workshop is used to produce frames, reinforcements, pediments and stands. There is also a soundproof grinding- and cutting-room.
The Metal Workshop is equipped with: semi-automatic cold-saw, band-saw, plate shears, hydraulic punch, vertical drill presses, spot-welding, TIG-welding, MIG/MAG-welding, manual plasma-cutter, belt-grinder, rotary-grinder, vertical grinder, angle grinder, sheet-metal roller, manual edge-fold, lathe, milling machine, Pullmax, edge-press, ring roller, gas forge, English Wheel, tube bender, gas kit, blasters and various hand-machines. In addition, there is MMA-welding, PUK-welding, a polishing machine, and a 20-ton hydraulic press.
Workshop Manager: Göran Svenborn
Wood
In the Wood Workshop, students can experiment with, construct and build solid wood and other wood-based materials, as well as acrylate polymers.
The workshop is equipped with the highest quality wood-working machines. Here, you will find: jointer and jointer-planer, pendulum-saw, panel-saw, band-saw, disk-saw, table moulders, edge-trimming machines, long-hole drills, vertical drill, and wood lathe.
The stationary-machinery is complemented by a large selection of hand-machines and professional-grade accessories. There are also carving gouges, axes, hand-tools, and chainsaws for those who want to sculpt by hand, as well as a vacuum pump for moulding bendable wood.
Workshop Manager: Annette Felleson
Plastics
In the workshop for polymeric materials, commonly known as the Plastics Workshop, students can work with various thermosetting resins, thermopolymers, composite materials and other polymeric materials. Spray- and varnishing-work is also available, as well as a work surface for vacuum moulding.
Workshop Manager: Lars Hammarström
Bronze
In the Bronze Workshop, casts are made partly by the traditional clay/chamotte method (which means that the mould is created from plaster and clay) and partly by the ceramic-shell method where a thin ceramic shell is produced around the waxy copy. The shell-moulds then become easy to handle and give a precise impression of what one intends to cast.
The workshop is equipped for wax- and mould-work, firing, chiseling and patination. The bronze casting takes place at Herman Bergman Fine Art Bronze Foundry (Bergmans Konstgjuteri).
Workshop Manager: Anneli Scheutz
Sculpture Studio
In the Sculpture Studio, students can work with the following materials: plaster, synthetic plaster, acrystal, jesmonite, various silicones, alginate, cast-wax and clay.
Workshop Manager: Lars Hammarström
Photo- and Video Studio
In Mindepartementet’s Photo- and Film Studio, there is analogue film-equipment for 135mm and 120mm, as well as for 4×5 inch and 8×10 inch film. Cameras: Nikon F, Mamiya 6, Pentax 6×4.5, Mamiya RB, Mamiya RZ, Sinar Norma and Sinar P. The SLR-system is based on Canon cameras and lenses, Mark II and Mark IV. The Hasselblad system is H4D. Flashes: portable and stationary studio-lightning from Pro.
Studio Manager: Petra Bauer
Digital Darkroom
The Digital Darkroom can be found in Mindepartementet. The computers are equipped with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat X Pro and Bridge) and Microsoft Office. The screens are Eizo Color Edge CG. The monitors and the room’s lighting environment are calibrated to create a controlled digital workflow.
The Digital Darkroom has the following scanning equipment: Imacon Flextight X1 (film scanning up to 4×5 inches), Epson V 750 pro, A4 scanner, Epson 15000 GT and A3 scanner. The following color printers are available: Epson 9000 (up to 44 inches) and Epson 5000 (up to 17 inches). Print materials can purchased in the school’s technology store. There is also equipment for mounting and lamination of formats up to 150cm.
Workshop Manager: Carl Johan Erikson
Sound
The fully-equipped Sound Studio in Mindepartementet provides the opportunity to borrow equipment, such as microphones and DAT recorders. At the so-called Torpeddepartmentet we host facilities for electro-acoustic music, radio performance, and sound art. Here, students can work with audio mixing, midi, sequencing and other forms of audio recordings.
Workshop Manager: Petra Bauer
Risograph
The Risograph Workshop contains a Risograph, or stencil duplicator, for simpler printed material, such as fanzines and smaller brochures. There is also a machine that folds and staples the printed matter, and a glue binder.
Workshop Manager: Carl Johan Erikson
Print-Making
The Royal Institute of Art offers a vibrant and well-adapted Screen-Printing Workshop. Further specialization in the print-making field is done in collaboration with external organizations.
Workshop Manager: Jenny Olsson
Material Institute
In the Material Institute (Materialinstitutet), teaching and practical work in the materials and methods of painting are carried out. Here, students will find equipment and materials to produce their own artistic work, such as various paints, wax-based crayons, primers and hand-made pigments. The pigments are made from natural materials, partly organic—obtained from plant-life—and partly inorganic—from sand and stone. Here, we also grow several differently coloured plants—especially woads, that produce the blue pigment indigo.
Workshop Manager: Kristina Janni Ståhl
The Mural
The Mural serves as both a workshop and course-room for the 2D-area. The workshop is used for painting as well as experimentation related to painting outside the studio. Students can book a place when needed, for example to build large-format works.The walls of The Mural are used for al fresco painting in connection with the courses we offer.
Workshop Manager: Kristina Janni Ståhl