Carving Connections *Time-Based Media Emphasis
An independent study program with Amber Imrie
February 7 - July 25th | Fridays 11 - 1pm ET
$200 per month
or 1,000 one-time fee
Enrollment deadline: January 31, 2025
Carving Connections ISP is designed to help you explore and strengthen your unique artistic voice by engaging deeply with a focus on time-based media. This course combines technical skills with creative exploration, focusing on video art, sound design, and the art of storytelling through moving images. You’ll gain practical experience using Adobe Premiere to edit video and sound, while experimenting with video quality, timing, multi-channel formats, GIFs, and other emerging media.
Through hands-on tutorials, we’ll explore how sound and image come together to create compelling works that resonate emotionally and intellectually. We’ll also dive into the logistics of exhibiting and installing video work, discussing how to present time-based pieces in physical spaces and online platforms. Along the way, you’ll receive personalized feedback from mentors and peers, all in a collaborative environment that encourages experimentation and growth.
This course is a great opportunity to expand your creative toolkit and develop your voice within the realm of contemporary video art, while continuing the Carving Connections tradition of fostering self-expression and artistic community.
Making A Life of Art
with Nato Thompson
February 5 - March 19th | Wednesdays 12:00 - 2pm EST
$750 For Members
$1250 Non-members
Enrollment deadline: February 5, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: April 29, 2024
‘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.
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
Enrollment deadline: April 17, 2024
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: April 17, 2024
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.
Maximum Magic
with Aaron Gach
April 2nd - May 14th | Tuesdays 3pm - 5:30pm EST
$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: April 2, 2024
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: March 27, 2024
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.
Monuments
With Krzysztof Wodiczko
April 3rd - May 15th | Wednesdays 5 - 7:30 pm EST
$2,000 New Student
$1,750 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: March 27, 2024
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.
Agripocene
With Amy Franceschini
March 25th - May 6th | Mondays 12 - 2:30 pm EST
$1,500 New Student
$1,250 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: March 26, 2024
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: March 25, 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.
Maximum Magic
with Aaron Gach
Jan 23rd - March 5th | Tues 6 pm - 8:30 pm ET
$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: January 23, 2024
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.
Professional Practice:
The Pursuit of Authenticity in the Arts with Epiphany Couch
Jan 19th - March 1st | Fridays 12:30 - 3 pm EST
$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: January 19, 2024
What does it mean to be an artist today? How do we navigate the changing art landscape? How do we seek opportunities that feel authentic to our goals as artists and creators? This course blends playful exploration with practical skill-building to provide artists with the tools and insights needed to navigate their artistic journey with authenticity, integrity, purpose, and resilience.
Meaningful Marks:
Contemporary Painting Workshop with Erlin Geffrard
Jan 15th - March 4th | Mondays 4 - 6:30 pm EST
$1,250 New Student
$1,000 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: January 15, 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.
Carving Connections
An independent study workshop with Amber Imrie
Jan 13th - June 28th | Saturdays 12 - 2pm ET
$300 per month
with a 6 month commitment
Enrollment deadline: January 13, 2024
In Carving Connections, we will be following the threads through our practice, into our community and out into the world. Everything is connected, but to see through the chaos we must move with clarity, intention and passion. Over six months we will engage in exercises to further illuminate your authenticity through your art. We will focus on strengthening your daily art practice routines to build resiliency, confidence, and self-assurance.
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
Enrollment deadline: November 1, 2023
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: October 17, 2023
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?
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
Enrollment deadline: September 28, 2023
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.
Projection/ Memory/ Monument
With Krzysztof Wodiczko
September 26th - November 7th | Tuesdays 4 - 6:30 pm EST
$2,000 New Student
$1,750 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: September 26, 2023
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: September 25, 2023
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: September 13, 2023
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.
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
Enrollment deadline: September 11, 2023
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.
Art in Public Space – Between Mission & Commission
Intensive with Dmitry Vilensky of Chto Delat
July 11th - Aug 1st | Tuesdays 11am - 1:30 pm ET
$1,000 New Student
$750 Returning Student
Enrollment deadline: July 11, 2023
In this course we analyze a broad variety of different public art projects. We trace the differences in approaches to the politic of commemoration, gentrification, the difference between agonistic and consensual work.
The Decentralization of the Southeast Asian Art Scene
With Gridthiya Gaweewong
May 16th - 25th | Tues & Thurs 8 - 10:30 am EST
$750
Enrollment deadline: May 16, 2023
The Southeast Asian contemporary art scene has emerged asynchronously since the dawn of globalization. This class will unfold the entanglements of contemporary art scenes from different loci on the Southeast Asian peninsula and the archipelago. It will explore the decentralization process of the contemporary art activities in the region. Many key players are artists - curators who initiate the collectives, art festivals and socially engaged art in their hometowns. These emerging practices, started in the 1990s, have resurfaced and are slowly spreading like networks of mushrooms in the forest. The vibrant art scene escalated when Indonesian artists collective, Ruangrupa curated the recent Documenta Fifteen, when many Southeast Asian collectives participated in the Lumbung (rice barn) concept of sharing resources within their community and beyond, and have continued their collaboration back home.
Spoken Spaces
With Vashti DuBois & DaSaint
April 12th - May 24th | Wednesdays 5:30 pm - 8pm EST
$1,250
Enrollment deadline: April 12, 2023
Inspired by The Colored Girls Museum this writing workshop invites participants to engage with home space as the muse - All Spaces Speak.
In this eight week course co-facilitators Vashti and DaSaint invite participants to create poetry inspired by spaces that speak. Participants will engage in being and seeing themselves in those spaces and speak back through poetic prose. We invite participants to explore the various spaces we call home, rather known or unknown and speak of its story in a poetic format.
Artists will learn fundamental poetry genres and styles but this is not the focus of the course, rather we will focus on what happens when we bring this knowledge into the spaces that speak to us.
Post-Human Infrastructure 2.0
with Lauren Bon
March 30th - May 11th | Thursdays 12:30 - 3 pm EST
$1,500
Enrollment deadline: March 30, 2023
In this online course, we will explore the concept of post-human infrastructure through the construction of speculative ecologies centered around water-based eco-zones. We will start by examining the ways in which human infrastructure has impacted these eco-zones and identify the challenges they face.
Studio Practice at the End of Who’s World
With Tiago Gualberto
March 14th - April 25th | Tuesdays 6:30 - 9 pm EST
$1,250
Enrollment deadline: March 14, 2023
An ongoing global crisis, The Apocalypse - The End of the World as we know it - looms as a very real threat. The question we ask is: how does one make art and a life in these times? Furthermore, who's world will end and how will art be made? We turn for guidance from artistic communities where apocalypse has been part of their culture for some time such as black and indigenous artists.
Gendered Performance Intensive
with Alicia Framis
Jan 24 & 26th, Feb 7th & 9th | Tuesdays & Thursdays 12 - 2:30 pm EST
$1,250
Enrollment deadline: January 24, 2023
Gender inequality is the subject of public debate. Everywhere in the world, real calamities are happening, dead women, anti-abortion, homophobism, issues that already seemed solved - from one day to the next has eroded, and we have lost our space in freedom. How do we put our convictions into practice, and go from theory to action, now?
Presence as Portal
With Maria Gaspar
Sep 27th - Nov. 8th | Tuesdays 11 am - 1:30 pm EST
$1,250
Enrollment deadline: September 22, 2022
Artists have used performance to engage various social and political issues through resistance practices that include protest art to public actions.
Arts and Culture of Nature
with Mark Dion
Dec 5th - 14th | Mon, Tues, Wed 12:30-3 pm EST
$2,000
Enrollment deadline: March 2, 2021
“Art and the Culture of Nature” aims to foster a better understanding of how artists today can make work engaging the environment in a time of intensifying ecological calamity.
Guadalupe Maravilla
Intensive with Guadalupe Maravilla
Feb 14th - Feb 25th | Mon, Tues, Wed 10:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
$1,500
Enrollment deadline: February 14, 2021
- 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.
