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 professional development, workshops, lectures, critique groups, and resource sharing that strengthen practice through dialogue and exchange. TAAS offers a flexible, networked alternative to traditional art school models for artists with or without previous art degrees.
Join a Global Community of Artists — $25/month, 1st month free
TAAS Member Programs
Professional Development
Build the career infrastructure your art practice deserves.
Workshops on Art & Life
Make better work. Think more clearly. Feel less alone in your practice.
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.
Crit Clubs & Studio Visits
Your next collaborator, advocate, or exhibition opportunity might be in Nairobi, Seoul, or São Paulo.
Exhibition Opportunities
Your work deserves to be seen. We help make that happen.
Visiting Artist & Curator Lectures
Get inside access to the people actually shaping the art world, and ask them anything.
TAAS Pro Program Courses
A year-long program for artists who want more than a single workshop. It is for those ready for a full arc of study, research, making, and public presentation with world-class instructors, including a course with Nato Thompson. Across three four-month courses, Pro Members work with leading artists, curators, and educators, each bringing a distinct lens to the question of how a creative practice grows beyond the studio. Each course feeds the next. The relationships mapped, the writing developed, the curatorial thinking sharpened, and the work produced all become material for what follows.
Work results in a collective publication, an in-person exhibition, and a digital presentation that extends the work’s reach. Members gain new skills and language, a finished body of work, a public moment, and a permanent record of what they built together.
Cohort-based program—TAAS will carefully construct each class to create the strongest possible mix of artists, practices, and perspectives.
Members will move through all three courses over the year. TAAS will determine which course each member begins with.
Each course offered on the same day and at the same time each week, so members will not need to change their schedules as they move from one course to the next.
TAAS Pro Class of 2026-2027 swag created especially for the cohort.
Limited to 18 people per course.
Off-Times Newspaper Independent Study
Treat publishing as a creative practice, not documentation. Contribute to TAAS's internationally distributed artist newspaper.
Making Your Own World with Nato Thompson
Stop trying to enter the art world. Learn how to build one. Build on the relationships, language, and circulation that let your work matter.
The Exhibition to Come with Marcela Vieira
Co-author a real curatorial dossier from scratch — no theme, no walls, just a room full of artists building something together.
Become a Member
TAAS is your toolkit for being an artist in the 21st century.