The Alternative Art School Online Art Courses
Accepting Applications for our Online Art Courses Until March 20th 11:59pm PT
Applications are reviewed Daily. Classes may fill before the deadline, apply early to secure your spot.
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.
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.
Professional Practice for Artists
with Lexa Walsh
March 29th - May 10th | Fridays 3:30 - 6 pm EST
$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student
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.
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.
Monuments
With Krzysztof Wodiczko
April 3rd - May 15th | Wednesdays 5 - 7:30 pm EST
$2,000 New Student
$1,750 Returning Student
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.
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.
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.
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.