● Program Overview

Crit Clubs & Studio Visits

This program brings together two core spaces for exchange. Crit Clubs are small-group sessions where artists share finished work, works in progress, writing, proposals, and applications, receiving focused feedback from peers. These sessions are open to drop-ins and happen twice a month. 

Studio Visits open that conversation outward. In these sessions, selected members present their work to the wider TAAS community of artists and curators, gaining experience speaking about their practice and responding to questions in a larger forum.

Together, these spaces support both the development of the work itself and the ability to articulate it—creating an ongoing rhythm of feedback, reflection, and public exchange..

● Program Overview

What You’ll Learn

  • How to identify strengths and gaps within your work

  • How to interpret and filter feedback from others

  • How your work is read and understood in different cultural contexts

  • How to speak about your practice with clarity in dialogue

  • How sustained critique impacts the evolution of your work

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Next Cohort
Starts June 1

Program Structure

Meets weekly, alternating between Crit Clubs and Studio Visits. Hosted by Eden Imrie or other TAAS team member.

Crit Clubs are small-group, workshop-style sessions where artists share work and receive focused peer feedback.

Crit Club sessions are not recorded unless requested by the presenting artist(s).

Studio Visits are dedicated presentations, where one artist shares their work for 45 minutes followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the wider TAAS community of artists and curators.

Studio Visits are recorded and added to the archive.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • TAAS is for artists, curators, makers, and doers at every stage of their artistic life. Many of our members already have undergraduate or graduate art degrees. We believe strongly that this mixed-level experience is an incredible opportunity.

  • The uniqueness of TAAS is that our instructors are often working artists and curators with complex schedules, therefore you’ll see amazing artists come, go and return from quarter to quarter.

  • TAAS is not accredited — intentionally. We believe the most valuable art education happens in dialogue with working artists and curators, not through institutional checkboxes.

  • TAAS operates on Zoom embedded in a networking software that operates as our digital campus. The platform includes a variety of messaging options, profile pages for artists to represent themselves and their work, and clubs in which they can host break-out sessions outside of classes.

  • The Alternative Art School uses Mighty Networks as our online campus and platform. This media-based learning environment allows artists to collaborate, upload their work, and share across vast distances.

  • TAAS is an online school and students need access to a dependable wifi network (preferably fast!),  and desktop or laptop computer with a working webcam and microphone. Some students find Direct Ethernet cables helpful to boost connectivity if their wifi networks are unstable.

  • While TAAS is not a non-profit, we have a fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, that accepts donations our behalf and offers a tax-deduction for all donations. We certainly encourage those with means and a big heart to support this initiative, its students, and instructors (see “Support” tab to donate.)