Making A Life of Art
with Nato Thompson
February 5 - March 19th | Wednesdays 12:00 - 2pm EST
$750 For Members
$1250 Non-members
Enrollment deadline: February 5, 2025
In this course, Thompson will address and workshop the complexities of living an artistic life. Ranging from practical issues like artistic work routines and navigating the art world to more philosophical issues of community, sustainability, and life-work balance; the course is meant as a hands-on workshop for artists and curators interested in making a cultural life amidst a difficult and socially arduous world. The course will also include visiting artists, readings, and discussions.
Carving Connections *Time-Based Media Emphasis
An independent study program with Amber Imrie
February 7 - July 25th | Fridays 11 - 1pm ET
$200 per month
or 1,000 one-time fee
Enrollment deadline: January 31, 2025
Carving Connections ISP is designed to help you explore and strengthen your unique artistic voice by engaging deeply with a focus on time-based media. This course combines technical skills with creative exploration, focusing on video art, sound design, and the art of storytelling through moving images. You’ll gain practical experience using Adobe Premiere to edit video and sound, while experimenting with video quality, timing, multi-channel formats, GIFs, and other emerging media.
Through hands-on tutorials, we’ll explore how sound and image come together to create compelling works that resonate emotionally and intellectually. We’ll also dive into the logistics of exhibiting and installing video work, discussing how to present time-based pieces in physical spaces and online platforms. Along the way, you’ll receive personalized feedback from mentors and peers, all in a collaborative environment that encourages experimentation and growth.
This course is a great opportunity to expand your creative toolkit and develop your voice within the realm of contemporary video art, while continuing the Carving Connections tradition of fostering self-expression and artistic community.
Past Courses
Professional Practice for Artists Intensive
with Lexa Walsh
In this 2-week workshop, we will move intently toward building our professional practices as artists. We will cover the many ways to be in the Art World(s), and how to get there: Goal Setting, Grants, Budgets, Pricing, Residencies, Open Calls, Artist and Project Statements, Elevator Pitches, CVs, Documentation, Websites, Networking and Promotion, and the importance of Community. We will share tips and strategies to help define and finesse each of these, by identifying our audiences, contexts, processes, research and challenges.
Meaningful Marks Intensive
Contemporary Painting Workshop with Erlin Geffrard
Meaningful Marks is a contemporary painting workshop, wherein you will learn contemporary painting techniques, theory, and principles while exploring the power of marks to convey meaning and emotion in your artwork. In this course, you will create three paintings that build on the skills and concepts covered in class.
Overstory: A colloquia on practices of listening and doing in community
with Raqs Media Collective
‘Canopy’ draws its name and disposition from the practices of gathering, in joy, togetherness and anger, that the world has witnessed and is witnessing - in varying intensities over the last decade. It finds its form in the colourful tent canopies - shamiyanas - that marks places like Delhi - as shades to gather under. Occasions when people, often strangers, met face to face, sang, had conversations into the night and asserts their claims to space and time by being together. These moments and places reflect on how impulses move and moves many, and ruptures the settled rhythms of living and moving.
Art is Poetry & Poetry is Art
with DaSaint
This course explores how the everyday artist is forever writing their life expression through various artistic mediums. Rather you are a visual or literary impressionist these sessions will allow participants to find value in both art forms in seeing how they creatively compliment each other.
The Culture of Nature
with Mark Dion
Mark Dion will lead conversations and investigations into The Culture of Nature, but this course will focus on artists who explore animal issues. Artists who depict, investigate or collaborate with other living beings will be discussed and the history of ideas around our understanding of animals will be explored. The artist promises this course will be not merely illuminating but also fun. Fellows will be expected to research, make presentations, and do quick-paced assignments.
Maximum Magic
with Aaron Gach
In Maximum Magic Online Art course, artists will get feedback on their art through various exchanges and explore their art practice’s connection with magic. From smoke & mirrors to spirits & mysticism, this course will be engaging all kinds of magical arts in relation to diverse creative practices, historical developments, and current cultural expressions.
Professional Practice for Artists
with Lexa Walsh
In this 7 week class, we will move intently toward building our professional practices as artists. We will cover the many ways to be in the Art World(s), and how to get there: Goal Setting, Grants, Budgets, Pricing, Residencies, Open Calls, Artist and Project Statements, Elevator Pitches, CVs, Documentation, Websites, Networking and Promotion, and the importance of Community. We will share tips and strategies to help define and finesse each of these, by identifying our audiences, contexts, processes, research and challenges.
Monuments
With Krzysztof Wodiczko
In “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” Friedrich Nietzche asked, “What is the use to the modern man of this ‘monumental’ contemplation of the past, this preoccupation with the rare and classic?” That was 1874. Today, monuments to racism, white supremacy, colonialism, war, patriarchy, and oppressions across the world are toppled, disgraced, vandalized, and defaced. The course will provide space for an informed and open discussion and for development and sharing of the artistic concepts, and proposals for monuments.
Agripocene
With Amy Franceschini
The Agripocene* course will look at different forms of art and activism that address issues of land use, climate change and environmental justice with a focus on strategies of collaboration, durational approaches and methods for developing unconventional partnerships to realize the unthinkable. Lectures and invited guests will demonstrate how to move, be moved and to move mass(es) - from the small gesture to large-scale productions that overturn policy, food systems and practices of everyday life to form new paths of resistance, mutual aid and reciprocal engagement.
