The Alternative Art School Online Art Courses

Applications are reviewed daily. Classes may fill before the deadline.
Summer 2024

Meaningful Marks Intensive

Contemporary Painting Workshop with Erlin Geffrard

July 30th - August 8th | Tues / Thurs 3 - 5pm ET

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

Enrollment deadline: July 23, 2024

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.

Professional Practice for Artists Intensive

with Lexa Walsh

July 31st - August 9th | Wed / Fri 9 - 11am ET

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

Enrollment deadline: July 24, 2024

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.

Summer 2024

Creating Digital Art: From Media-Rich Poetry to AI and Blockchain

with Sasha Stiles

August 13th - August 22nd | Tues / Thurs 1 - 3pm ET

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

Enrollment deadline: August 6, 2024

This 2-week immersion in the crypto art ecosystem empowers artists and writers to unlock the creative potential of the blockchain, through lectures, tutorials, virtual field trips, and insights from leaders in the NFT space.