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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 Fall Session Courses.

Fall Session runs September 8th - November 10th

Now Accepting Applications

Deadline to Apply: EXTENDED September 4th 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.

NEW Student Partial-Scholarships

- Partial Scholarships for Artists Working with Environmentalism (Partial-Scholarship Awards of $250)

- Partial Scholarships for Parent Artists (Partial-Scholarship Awards of $250)

- Partial Scholarships for Underrepresented Artists (Partial-Scholarship Awards of $250)

Don't know if you fit a category? Reach out to us, we are happy to help!

How to Apply: To be considered for this support, state in your application your experience/ dedication or belonging to the applicable category. Reach out to admin@thealternativeartschool.net with any questions.

All Partial - Scholarships are applied directly to our course fee. Applications are reviewed as they are received. Partial-Scholarships can NOT be combined with other discounts. Awards can apply to any of our offered classes except "Getting Back into Art". This fund is supported by tuition dollars from artists and curators like you! Returning students need not apply, we automatically apply our partial-scholarship to all returning students fees, except for "Getting Back into Art".

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

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Meaningful Marks: Contemporary Painting Workshop with Erlin Geffrard

September 11th - October 23rd | Mondays 4 pm - 6:30 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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Making A Life of Art with Nato Thompson

September 13th - October 25th | Wednesdays 12:30 - 3pm EST

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

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.

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Art & Gender Exploring Gender in Art and Life With Amber Imrie

September 25th - November 6th | Mondays 1 - 3:30 pm EST

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

We live in a world organized by gender. As artists this affects the work we make, the opportunities we get, and the lens through which others view our work. In this course, artists will workshop their own projects with a cohort of artists also interested in discussing the ways gender frames us and our work.

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Projection/ Memory/ Monument With Krzysztof Wodiczko

September 26th - November 7th | Tuesdays 4 - 6:30 pm EST

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

The course, Projection/ Memory/ Monument, will introduce the participants to the process of development of artistic concepts and proposals for the interior and outdoor projections that examine, engage, and transform the meaning of the forms of existing environment such as domestic and workspaces as well as architectural, sculptural, and natural monuments.

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Art, Climate & Land-Use Socio-Environmental Imagination in the age of the Agripocene With Amy Franceschini

September 28th - November 9th | Thursdays 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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At Home in the Body with Janine Antoni

October 17th - November 28th | Tuesdays 2:30 - 5 pm EST

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

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?

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Something out of Nothing Experiments in Quick Thinking and Quick Working With Mark Dion & Lenka Clayton

November 1 - 10th | Wed, Thurs, Fri 1:00 - 3:30pm EST

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

The class would focus on brainstorming and problem solving to materialize conceptual solutions to site specific art making problems. The methodology would be fast paced, down and dirty and rather fun. We'll explore intuitive reasoning, improvisation, and bricolage. Students will be guided to make a series of works in response to prompts, questions and challenges that aim to condense the process of ideation to realization in order to explore and expand an art making practice.