Member Programs
The Alternative Art School is a Membership-based, global, artist-led school founded to expand access to critical art education. Artists across 25+ countries participate in workshops, lectures, critique groups, and resource sharing that strengthen practice through dialogue and exchange. TAAS offers a flexible alternative to traditional art school models for artists with or without previous art degrees.
Join a Global Community of Artists — Membership starts at $25/month, 1st month free
Community Programs
Be a part of it.
Talks, workshops, crits, studio visits, community:
Visiting Artist & Curator Lectures
Get inside access to the people actually shaping the art world, and ask them anything.
Workshops on Art & Life
Join a wide-ranging conversation about what it means to make art while living an actual life.
Crit Clubs & Studio Visits
Find your next collaborator, advocate, or exhibition opportunity.
Global Peer Community
Turn inspiration into insight with a global community who understands.
Video Archive & Artist Resources
Everything you need to grow your practice, on your schedule, from your phone.
School Programs
Develop your practice.
Small cohorts, regular critique, skills-based classes, deeper engagement:
Professional Development
Build the career infrastructure your art practice deserves.
Sharpen Your Practice with Nato Thompson
Strengthen your work, deepen your thinking, and become more intentional about the choices you make in your practice.
Exhibition Opportunities
Your work deserves to be seen. We help make that happen.
Painting & Drawing
Time-Based Art & New Media
Expand your practice through video, photography, GIFs, sound, projection, and other forms of time-based and new media.
Make Something Special.
Sustained mentorship toward a project, publication, or exhibition:
A different intensive weekly course every four-months, led by leading artists, curators, and educators.
Gain new skills and language, a finished body of work and a public moment.
Limited to 18 students per class.
Intensive Programs
Off-Times Newspaper
Treat publishing as a creative practice, not documentation. Contribute to TAAS's internationally distributed artist newspaper.
The Exhibition to Come
Create a curatorial dossier: a living portfolio and complete conceptual framework the group can use to pitch, host, or activate real exhibitions at museums or independent galleries.
Making Your Art Own World
Stop trying to enter the art world. Learn how to build one. Build on the relationships, language, and circulation that let your work matter.
Become a Member
TAAS is your toolkit for being an artist in the 21st century.