NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS {We will be able to meet with prospective students in L.A. after February 1st, and prospective students in New York from January 11th – 27th.}

The topic/title for this second schoolhouse season is ‘Planet of the Humans’. What is our relationship to our environment? How can we as artists, designers, performers and writers respond to it more fully? How do we reconcile ever growing human need & consumption with ever more limited natural resources? Is there enough for everyone to thrive and not just survive? What do future generations of humans have in store? Are we afraid to ask those questions? Do we still dream about the future? Or have we collectively buried our heads in the sands of nostalgic reverie, craving the retro, historic, authentic, warm fuzzy security of a rosy optimistic past that never even existed? Why are even the best of us aiming for that which is sustaining? Why not remediating or ameliorating? Must even the most well intentioned contemporary human creation always have simultaneous degradation of everything around it as an unintended by-product? How will this story play itself out? Will we turn our behavior around in time to prevent our mass extinction? Will we remain but in a weakened position, a shadow of our former dominating species? What does a world with a submissive human look like? Or will we disappear entirely? What does a world after humans look like? Is that worth wondering? Do we truly understand our place on the planet only after we have imagined our absence? What should we do next? More questions coming…. All of the teachers for spring 2007 season in some way deal with these issues in their practice.

Spring 2007 Schoolhouse teachers:

{the list of teachers for the 2007 will be updated throughout the winter}

Amy Franceschini ~ Futurefarmers ~ Free Soil ~ {designer – artist}
Fritz Haeg ~ Gardenlab ~ Fritz Haeg Studio ~
Maria Lepowsky {anthropologist}
Yoshua Okon ~ La Panaderia ~ {artist – founder La Panederia – UCSD faculty}
Jenny Price {writer}
Heather Rogers {writer}
Ashwani Vasishth {ecological planner}
Claude Willey & Deena Capparelli ~ Moisture ~
Andrea Zittel ~ High Desert Test Sites ~ {artist}
dance, movement & yoga instructors:
Qusai Kathawala ~ {media designer / yogi}
Carol McDowell {movement artist}
Hana van der Kolk {choreographer/movement teacher}
Flora Wiegmann ~ Champion Fine Art ~ {dancer/choreographer/curator}