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For up-to-date AltMFA news & activities go to:
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For up-to-date AltMFA news & activities go to:
Our Instagram: @alt_mfa
Our Blog: altmfa.blogspot.com
Alt MFA is an Alternative Master of Fine Art Course established in 2010, by artists, for artists, as a free alternative to studying a university-based Masters programme in London. |
Alt MFA incorporates the most desirable elements of an MFA course: space to work, collaborators to argue with, and a social sphere to move within. We squeeze into any space and adapt it to our ends. Unlike a conventional MFA, Alt MFA is a common space in which there are no fees and time and facilities are all offered in kind. Alt MFA is self-selecting; the only criteria for membership is attendance and the contribution of time and energy.
Alt MFA is non-hierarchical and self-directed; participants set the curriculum. We constantly experiment with potential new structures for our meetings -- AltMFA & Friends International Jamboree, our month-long Guest Projects residency in May 2015, was an example of this reshaping and reconfiguring of our practice.
In the past AltMFA has had residencies with Merz Barn, aforementioned Guest Projects, Floating Island Gallery, and The Departure Foundation. We have been hosted by Arebyte, May Day Rooms, Dalston Library, Campbell Works, and The Function Room. Previous projects have included ‘OPEN PLAN’ at 55 Gracechurch Street, a collective project space led by students from Alt MFA and RCA Sculpture, as well as our live performance tours at ArtLicks Weekend (annually since 2013), and a session for Anti-University Festival 2015, and 2017.
Alt MFA regularly host guest speakers and make trips to artists’ studios and arts institutions.
These have included Nuno Coelho, John Ros of GalleryELL, French Mottershead, Michael Archer at Goldsmiths, William Cobbing, Steve Bunn, Simon Callery, Glenn Adamson, activist John Jordan, Rebecca Birch and Field Broadcast, John Hill at Flat Time House, Harriet Murray and Neil Taylor, Keith Harrison at the V&A Museum, and many more.
Alt MFA were contributors to a panel discussion on the current state of arts education for Res|Fest at the Courtauld Institute, participants in The RA Burlington Gardens Festival as part of the Yinka Shonibara 'RA Family Album' events programme, Serpentine Marathon 89plus education project curated by Helene Kazan, were speakers at the New Contemporaries Alternative Education Salon at the ICA, and part of a Goldsmiths College Conference on Alternative Education.
Alt MFA is non-hierarchical and self-directed; participants set the curriculum. We constantly experiment with potential new structures for our meetings -- AltMFA & Friends International Jamboree, our month-long Guest Projects residency in May 2015, was an example of this reshaping and reconfiguring of our practice.
In the past AltMFA has had residencies with Merz Barn, aforementioned Guest Projects, Floating Island Gallery, and The Departure Foundation. We have been hosted by Arebyte, May Day Rooms, Dalston Library, Campbell Works, and The Function Room. Previous projects have included ‘OPEN PLAN’ at 55 Gracechurch Street, a collective project space led by students from Alt MFA and RCA Sculpture, as well as our live performance tours at ArtLicks Weekend (annually since 2013), and a session for Anti-University Festival 2015, and 2017.
Alt MFA regularly host guest speakers and make trips to artists’ studios and arts institutions.
These have included Nuno Coelho, John Ros of GalleryELL, French Mottershead, Michael Archer at Goldsmiths, William Cobbing, Steve Bunn, Simon Callery, Glenn Adamson, activist John Jordan, Rebecca Birch and Field Broadcast, John Hill at Flat Time House, Harriet Murray and Neil Taylor, Keith Harrison at the V&A Museum, and many more.
Alt MFA were contributors to a panel discussion on the current state of arts education for Res|Fest at the Courtauld Institute, participants in The RA Burlington Gardens Festival as part of the Yinka Shonibara 'RA Family Album' events programme, Serpentine Marathon 89plus education project curated by Helene Kazan, were speakers at the New Contemporaries Alternative Education Salon at the ICA, and part of a Goldsmiths College Conference on Alternative Education.
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