First Alternative Art School Fair Announced by Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood announced that it will host the inaugural edition of the Alternative Art School Fair, which will feature more than fifty alternative art schools located across the United States and around the globe. The fair is scheduled to open on November 19, 2016, and run through November 20.
Pioneer Works’ website states, “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, artist-run initiatives, the values and visions of alternative art schools vary widely in methodology, mission, and governance. But even when they are relatively small in scale they provide vital models of cultural critique and experimentation.”
A keynote panel featuring artists Luis Camnitzer, Dorothea Rockburne, and Carol Becker, dean of faculty and professor of the arts at Columbia University School of the Arts, among others, will be announced. The majority of the events at the fair will also be livestreamed and archived by Clocktower Productions on clocktower.org.
This year’s participants in the fair are:
AAPG – Alternative Art Program Guatemala: Guatemala City, Guatemala
AltMFA: London
Unhook School: New York
Archeworks: Chicago
Arthur Fournier Fine and Rare: New York
Arts Letters & Numbers: New York
ASCII Project: Mohansein, Giza, Egypt
Beta-Local: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Black Mountain School: Black Mountain, North Carolina
Booklyn: New York
Brooklyn Art Library: New York
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research: New York
Center for Art Analysis: Bucharest, Romania
COLABORA: São Paolo
Common Field: Online
Enroll Yourself: London
Inventory Press: New York
Islington Mill Art Academy: Salford, UK
Grizedale Arts: Coniston, Lake District, UK
OSSAI-Open Source and Space Administration Institute for Alternative Research: New York
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency: Saugatuck, Michigan
NERTM – New Earth Resiliency Training Module: New York
New York Arts Practicum: New York
Provisions Library: Washington, DC
Shift/Work: Edinburgh
School of Apocalypse: New York
School of Critical Engagement - SoCE: Los Angeles / Oslo / Accra, Ghana / International
School of the Future: New York
School for Poetic Computation: New York
SOMA: Mexico City
Sommerskolen: Stavanger, Norway
Spring Sessions: Amman, Jordan
Subview Luncheonette: New York
The Art & Law Program: New York
The Black School: New York
The Other MA-TOMA: Westcliff-on-Sea, UK
The Public School: Los Angeles / Brussels / International
The School of Making Thinking: New York
The Southland Institute: Los Angeles
The Zz School of Print Media: Kansas City
Thinker Space: Philadelphia
Transart Institute: New York
Uncertainty School: Seoul / New York
UNIDEE-University of Ideas: Bella, Italy
Utopia School: New York / Denmark / International
Zone Books: New York
For more information about the fair, go to Pioneer Works’ website here.