studioELL

studioELL is a Brooklyn-based, hybrid learning space that offers courses and residencies — both in-person and online — devoted to studio art practice. Part critique and part studio visit, studioELL intentionally fuses elements of higher education and continuing education to reconsider the possibilities within learning and support found in community education. 

studioELL radicalizes learning and builds support networks within the studio practice by challenging institutional ways of thinking, co-opting the languageing of these more traditional educational spaces, constructing new communal spaces for critique and development and creating systems of mutual support centered around art practice. Operating out of Brooklyn, NY, studioELL’s reach is national and international, with a focus on local solutions and community-building in the places enrolled artists and professors live and work. Though Brooklyn is the current physical brick and mortar base of activity, our professors and student-artists act as stewards, building and extending the reach of studioELL through programming and connections to other artistic communities.  This organic expansion is multilayered and synchronistic in its evolution.  Asynchronous studio classrooms allow for more freedom; our residency-style approach keeps artists focused on their practice as they engage in critical discourse while staying connected to their everyday life. studioELL creates a sustainable system both inside and outside the studio.

Artistic, creative and intellectual impact is continual as we support artists within their own unique practices and further develop ideas in a safe and nurturing environment. Communal impact grows as we connect people from different backgrounds, cities, states, countries, education levels, etc. Civic and social impact is essential. It is our goal to shift pedagogical ideologies within academic and institutional spaces, but also to bring these sensibilities to democratic spaces of understanding — like libraries and community centers — reaching a wider audience and elevating discussions around creative and cultural capital as a means of bringing people together and discussing difficult issues.