Alternative Art School Fair

The Alternative Art School Fair presents an introduction to alternative art schools from around the world. Art education is a reflection of social and cultural evolution; it engages with structures of meaning-making and considers different frameworks for experience. The impetus to create an alternative art school is rooted not only in a desire to create “better” art, but to create the conditions for greater freedom of expression. Often run as free, alternative art schools vary widely in methodology, mission and governance. Even when they are relatively small in scale they provide vital models of cultural critique and experimentation. The Alternative Art School Fair recognizes that the act of school building is an effort to create institutional structures that are more responsive to cultural evolution. With this in mind the Fair invited the public to engage with these schools at interactive booths alongside a weekend program of presentations and discussions that examine the role of such alternatives. The schools included: Alternative Art Program Guatemala, Alt-MFA, Antiuniversity Now, Black Mountain School, Free School of Architecture and many others. Francesca presented Grizedale Arts with a series of talks, discussions and activities.

Year: 2017
Place: Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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