The Alternative Art School Online Art Courses

Accepting Applications for our Online Art Courses Until September 4th 11:59pm PT

Applications are reviewed Daily. Classes may fill before the deadline, apply early to secure your spot.
Fall 2023

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.

Fall 2023

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.

Fall 2023

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.

Fall 2023

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.

Fall 2023

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.

Spring 2023

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?

Fall 2023

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.