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We are looking for artists at every stage of their artistic life. We want artists, makers, and doers who are passionate about the art, willing to be vulnerable and listen as they learn. Our application takes basic information, your course selection, and asks applicants to tell us about their artistic journey and where they would like it to lead them. Don't over think it, be yourself. We are currently accepting application for our Spring Session Courses.

Open Courses run April 8th - June 14th

Now Accepting Applications

Deadline to Apply: July 1st at 11:59 pm PST

**Applications are approved or denied daily. Priority is given to early enrollment and classes may fill before deadline.

Questions? Reach out at: admin@thealternativeartschool.net

At TAAS, we believe in quality education with small class sizes. Here a student does not get lost. You are not a number, you are an artist that the faculty & staff knows. Artists have opportunities for one-to-one feedback, studio crits, and office hours.

The Alternative Art School is more than classes, it’s a community. As a global school we are interconnecting driven artists around the world with fellow artists, instructors, and organizations. Through TAAS’s visiting lecture series, we will bring in guest artists and organizations to enrich the digital class experience. Through our innovative online platform and campus programming, students are able to intercommunicate, receive feedback, collaborate on projects, and share resources all within one place. We have welcomed over 350 global artists and curators into our community since 2020. Once you take a class at TAAS, you become a member of our community forever. If you have questions about TAAS courses or our community, reach out to us, we are a human place.

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Fellowship Applicants - DO NOT APPLY HERE! - Apply on our Open Call Page for our Full Fellowships.

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We believe art is part of your larger life. We have students from a range of backgrounds.

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Meaningful Marks Contemporary Painting Workshop with Erlin Geffrard

March 25th - May 6th | Mondays 3 - 5:30 pm EST

$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student

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.

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Agripocene With Amy Franceschini

March 25th - May 6th | Mondays 12 - 2:30 pm EST

$1,500 New Student
$1,250 Returning Student

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.

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Maximum Magic with Aaron Gach

April 2nd - May 14th | Tuesdays 3pm - 5:30pm EST

$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student

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.

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The Culture of Nature with Mark Dion

April 17th - April 26th | Wed, Thur, Fri 1:00 - 3:30pm EST

$2,000 New Student
$1,750 Returning Student

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.

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Art is Poetry & Poetry is Art with DaSaint

April 17th - May 29th | Wednesdays 5:30 - 8 pm EST

$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student

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.

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Overstory: A colloquia on practices of listening and doing in community with Raqs Media Collective

April 29th - May 10th | Mon, Thur, Fri 9 - 11:30am EST

$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student

‘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.

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Making Art: Making an Art Life An independent study workshop with Nato Thompson

July 10th - November 20th | Wednesdays 12 - 2pm ET

$300 per month
with 1st & last due at signup & Autopay

In this 5 month independent workshop, we are encouraging artists to sign up who want a course that operates in parallel to their artistic practice. This course will offer feedback and workshops on your art and offer a variety of methods to consider where it could lead to. In addition to both peer to peer and instructor-led feedback, the workshop will also consider a variety of methods for getting your art in front of a variety of audiences. And finally, we will consider the spiritual and mindful techniques available for artists to allow themselves to be both vulnerable and resilient as they pursue the magical, but difficult, life of an artist.

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Carving Connections An independent study workshop with Amber Imrie

July 13th - Nov 23rd | Saturdays 12 - 2pm ET

$300 per month
with a 5-month commitment* & Autopay

In Carving Connections, we will be following the threads through our practice, into our community and out into the world. Everything is connected, but to see through the chaos we must move with clarity, intention and passion. Over five months we will engage in exercises to further illuminate your authenticity through your art. We will focus on strengthening your daily art practice routines to build resiliency, confidence, and self-assurance.