
SwSy Hantverksgrupp
Swedish Syrian handcraft group to Support Immigrants' Craftsmen Integration in Swedish Labor Market
What do you know about Swedish Craft and Art System?
In Sweden to work as an artist, it is a different situation and could be a copmlicated process for you. It depends on your high artistic skills and years of being a productive artist with many known projects. The Swedish system can give you an oppurtinities of showing your projects by applying for a public commission. This means that there is often an open call for artists and then you make an application and a sketch proposal. It could be a building company who contacts an artist and asks for a specific work. Sometime the architect decide to hire a craftsmen to do a mission. In Sweden ( 1 ) percent of people taxes goes to the artistic decoration of buildings, thus, the reponsible committees have to make a public call for artists where anyone can apply. Then as an artist you have to submit an application, you don’t get hired but your work will be funded and you get a budget for your own salary and for project costs. Finally its your design and your own work to decide what your project will be.
David Carlsson
Professor at the school of Craft and Design
University of Gothenburg