_{As part of a new partnership initiative, Hauser & Wirth 18th Street will host three New Art School Modality courses between Fall 2024 and Spring 2026. The first course, Arts Writing: Writing About Art, runs from October 11 to December 13, 2024.}

Upcoming:

“Notes From The Artist’s Studio Course”

^{April 18 - May 9, 2025
Friday 10-12:30 pm ET session
Hybrid format (@ Hauser and Wirth New York and Virtual)
Application Open Now | Learn About the Course Faculty}
This NASM course includes suggestions and lessons by artists with studio practices who share what they know and would want to impart to emerging makers about form and their approaches to art making and specific forms.

Current:
The Sun Ra Course
^{March 7 - April 4, 2025
Friday 10-12:30 pm ET session
Hybrid format (@ Hauser and Wirth New York and Virtual)
Learn About the Course Faculty}
This course examines the work of composer, poet, musician, artist Sun Ra. It situates Sun Ra art historically and considers the scope of his relevance to art making and creative practice.

Previous:
Reaction/Revision Sessions
^{February 2025}
Join us for the NASM “Reaction/Revision” Sessions, a unique opportunity for in-depth, personalized feedback on your artistic practice. Designed for alumni of Festac’77, Making New Monuments, and Arts Writing/Writing About Art courses, these sessions provide a fresh approach to the traditional critique model.

Faculty include Professor Hamza Walker (Curator, The Brick), Professor Tony Lewis (Artist), Professor Laura Letinsky (Photographer and Artist), and Professor Rebecca Matalon  (Curator, Houston CAMH).

Arts Writing / Writing About Art
^{October 11 - December 6 2024
Friday 10-12:30 pm ET session
Hybrid format (@ Hauser and Wirth New York and Virtual)}
The Fall 2024 course examines various forms of writing about art, including traditional and innovative approaches. Faculty include writers, artists, and arts professionals with experience in this genre.
 
Making New Monuments
^{April 7 - May 26 2024
(+ May 26 - June 9 Independent Production Period)
Sundays 10:00am-12:30pm Central Time (Chicago Timezone)
Hybrid format (@ MCA Chicago & Virtual)}

The Spring 2024 Making New Monuments course introduces innovative forms of, and revised approaches to the practice of, monument making. Participants will imagine and consider how to memorialize a renewed scene of subjects, topics, and histories.

FESTAC ’77: Witnesses, Art Histories, and Documents
^{September 26 - Dec 5, 2023
Tuesdays 4:30-7:30pm Central Time (Chicago Timezone)
Hybrid format (@ MCA Chicago & Virtual)}

The Fall 2023 course is on FESTAC ’77 and will explore the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. The faculty includes FESTAC ’77 participants as well as artists, art historians, and authors of key texts and art histories on FESTAC, as well as those with expertise and knowledge in relevant areas.