The Alternative Art School
Accepting applications for Workshop Summer Classes until June 23rd.
Summer runs July 5th - August 18th 2022
NFTs & Artists
with Nato Thompson
July 6th - August 17th | Wednesdays 12:30 pm-3 pm EST
This course is a combination of workshop, lecture, discussions and visiting guests in the field, as Nato Thompson digs into the ever evolving world of non-fungible tokens.
Embodying Process: An Artlab Workshop
with Amber Imrie
July 6th - August 1st | Mon & Wed 3 - 5:30 pm EST
This is a non-hierarchical workshop wherein artists will offer each other critical feedback, from idea to fruition, testing and experimenting through iterations, and culminate in an online group exhibition of the finished artworks. This workshop is created to help support artists who are going through a transition; maybe starting a new project, series, or looking to refine their process.
Recognize, Research, Respond: An ArtLab Workshop
with Veronica Jackson
July 26th - Aug 18th | Tues & Thurs 1:30-4 pm EST
In this non-hierarchical workshop, artists will offer each other critical feedback, from idea to fruition, culminating in an online group exhibition of artworks workshopped. This workshop is lead by Veronica Jackson. Veronica brings to Artlab deep questions about artistic process that focuses on defining our audience, research, and purpose as an artist.
Cassils
The Body As Instrument And Image
April 6th - May 18th | Wednesdays 12-2:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - This is a class where we will develop a performance. structured around embodied research, guest lectures, and exposure to several artist works and films.
Pier Luigi Sacco
Aesthetics of impact. Artistic practice and transformational social change
Mar 1st - Apr 12th | Tuesdays 12 - 2:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - Should artistic practice have an ‘impact’ – that is, beyond the consensus, it is able to command within the art system? This question has a special importance for all such practices that cut through the traditional borders of studio art to directly involve specific individuals and communities, especially when such individual or collective subjects suffer from any form of marginalization and deprivation.
Mark Dion
Behind the Scenes with Mark Dion - Arts & Museums from the Cabinet of Curiosities to Institutional Critique
Feb 6th - 16th | Mon, Tues, Wed 12:30-3 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - Museums; what are they? where did they come from? and who are they for? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this intensive sociocultural class.
Raqs Media Collective
Procedure, Procedure, Procedure
Mar 8th - 17th | Tues, Wed, Thurs 8-10:30 am EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - In ‘Procedure, Procedure, Procedure’, Raqs Media Collective will present an outline of the attitudes, methods, and infrastructural stances it undertakes in order to sustain and develop its three-decade-long artistic, curatorial, and research practice.
The two-week module will be structured through readings, focused discussions, conversations, and exercises.
Mario Ybarra Jr.
Painter to Pointer
Feb 10th - Mar 24th | Thursdays 7-9:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - Through the exploration of wet media to social media, students will move between painting as an art medium and how it can amplify its effect in relation to site, audience, context, and social engagement.
Guadalupe Maravilla
Intensive with Guadalupe Maravilla
Feb 14th - Feb 25th | Mon, Tues, Wed 10:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - Art is in a constant process of expansion and is constantly absorbing new materials, media, strategies, and ideologies. In general terms, the goal of this class is to teach students about art as a living contemporary practice and the importance of self-care. The class will focus on information and techniques that are relevant to the present.
Zoe Butt
Embodying Method: How Artists Provide Responsive Strategies for Sustaining Knowledge
Feb 15th - Mar 8th, Apr 19th - May 3rd | Tuesdays 9-11:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - The context of artistic production across the globe is incredibly vast and thus diverse in nature and capacity. Artistic intention is often driven by local landscapes of increasing political fragility, where the urgency to mine the past, in order to excavate historical reason, is paramount to sustaining conversations surrounding issues of sovereignty, religious freedom, Indigeneity, race, spiritual affinities, environmental justice and so much more.
Janine Antoni
At Home in the Body
Feb 22nd - Apr 12th | Tuesdays 3-5:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - This class will be part laboratory, part playground, part archeological dig: a place to relate, to connect, and to honor difference. Where are we politically, geographically, and culturally? Where are we in terms of our gender and belief systems? How does this affect our making?
Rirkrit Tiravanija
When Nothingness Becomes Form
Apr 7th - May 19th | Thursdays 4-6:30 pm EST
- ENROLLMENT CLOSED - How do we continue to think about making art in a world where existing as a human is no longer sustainable? How can we communicate in a world where communication is reduced to 270 characters? How can we make pictures and images, when on average, people are spending twenty minutes on Instagram, Gen-Z spends fifty-three minutes per day, while Americans spend more than thirteen hundred hours on social media?