APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 15TH
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APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 15TH ⭑
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At Craft 1o1, we believe that education flourishes when boundaries dissolve. That’s why every participant is invited to explore beyond their primary interest, engaging with a rich ecosystem of programs that span five core categories: VISUAL ARTS, HUMANITIES, PERFORMING ARTS, CONSTRUCTION, and MECHANICS. Whether you’re curious about architectural drawing, want to try your hand at welding, or feel called to join a movement workshop – no prior experience is required, only openness. This cross-disciplinary pollination is central to our mission: no one comes just for one thing, and everyone leaves with more than they expected.
When applying, participants will select the weeks they wish to join us on campus, based on the programs that speak to them most. However, during their stay, they are welcome, encouraged, and warmly invited to take part in any other programs happening that same week at no additional cost. This creates a dynamic learning environment where curiosity leads the way, and transformation happens in the spaces within and between disciplines.
We encourage all applicants to express interest in more than one program as part of the application process, and to embrace the full range of possibilities that Craft 1o1 has to offer. You can find pricing details for each application type on the pre-application page, which appears after you click the ‘Apply’ button. Application deadline is May 15th.
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FILL OUT AN APPLICATION HERE
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FILL OUT AN APPLICATION HERE ⭑
July 1 – August 30
Building the Mill, Material Imagination, and the Culture of Craft
David Gersten
Architect/Artist/Writer/Educator
CONSTRUCTION | HUMANITIES
This summer, Arts Letters and Numbers will undertake the renovation of the first floor of the Mill, transforming it into a 6,000 square foot wood and metal shop. Participants will work alongside skilled tradespeople in carpentry, plumbing, electrical systems, heating installation, and fine woodworking, while seminars explore material imagination and craft.
July 1 – August 25
The Sky of Epithelium II
Will Hallett
Artist/Educator
VISUAL ARTS
This course introduces participants to the Discrete Design paradigm through key theoretical frameworks and then moves into a research and studio-based investigation of automated assembly and retrofit repair. Working with a 1993 International School Bus as a study site, students will engage photogrammetry, digital woodworking and machining, rust mitigation, welding, and basic circuit repair while developing original creative responses around the broader theme of automation and repair.
July 4 – 18
Contemplative Art Making | by Contingent Beings
Lu Gao & Camila Giraldo
Artists
PERFORMING ARTS | VISUAL ARTS
In this two-week workshop, participants cultivate sustained attention toward nature, self, and others through meditation, play, note-taking, conversation, and making. Using the immediate environment as both means and material, the class develops a slower and more mindful artistic practice rooted in observation, empathy, clarity, and an understanding of ourselves as contingent beings.
July 5 – 21
Probabilities, Uncertaintiees, Intuit/The Praxis of Improvisation
Brandon López
Double Bassist/Composer/Instructor
PERFORMING ARTS
This class explores the shifting modalities of improvisation through collective experimentation, listening, and intuitive response. Grounded in Brandon López’s approach to rhythm, collaboration, and ensemble practice, the workshop opens a space for participants to investigate improvisation as both a musical method and a broader artistic praxis.
July 6 – 12
Weaving: Pattern and Deviation
Margot Becker
Artist/Weaver/Educator
VISUAL ARTS
Beginning at the intersection of material intelligence and structural thinking, this program introduces participants to floor looms, frame looms, and off-loom structures while examining how tension, sett, and pattern shape textile form. Step-by-step instruction is paired with guided independent work, allowing beginners and experienced makers alike to explore the relationship between structure and improvisation through weaving.
July 6 – 12
The Print as Evidence: Experimental & Camera-less Photography
Daniele Frazier
Artist/Writer/Educator
VISUAL ARTS
This workshop approaches the print not as a simple image but as the material residue of embodied action and time-based experience. Through cyanotypes, chemigrams, lumen prints, silver gelatin manipulation, and experimental uses of analog equipment, participants work across photography, sculpture, textiles, and writing to explore the darkroom as a site of physical encounter and interdisciplinary experimentation.
July 8 – 11
with stones and juices: drawing explorations
Bahar Avanoğlu & İpek Avanoğlu
Architect-Researchers/Educators
VISUAL ARTS |PERFORMING ARTS
This workshop explores how one forms a relationship with place through both emotional and physical acts of engagement. Evolving through site-based exploration, visual and haptic apparatuses, three-dimensional studies, and embodied drawing practices using stones and juices, the class treats drawing as an expanded and sensorial mode of inquiry.
July 9 – 12 , July 17 – 20
Curatorial Workshop: The Other Face of A.I.
Zhang Xiaorui
Curator/Writer/Documentary Filmmaker
VISUAL ARTS | HUMANITIES
This workshop asks how curators might preserve the irreplaceably human within an age shaped by artificial intelligence. Moving across theory, interpretive writing, shipping, contracts, gallery collaboration, media outreach, and exhibition realization, the course reconstructs curatorial practice through the lenses of Animate Intentional, Attentive Interpretive, and Authoring Insight, culminating in a final exhibition and the possibility of longer-term professional connection.
July 9 – 12 , July 17 – 20
Routine Switch Operation: An Art-Making Workshop with He Yunchang
He Yunchang
Artist
PERFORMING ARTS
Led by internationally renowned artist He Yunchang, this workshop is based on his original Project Methodology system and guides participants in transforming bodily experience and lived practice into clearly articulated art projects. Through concept development, site-specific thinking, cultural expression, and pragmatic implementation planning, participants refine their own proposals with intensive feedback while studying the creative logic behind He’s major works.
July 27 – August 2
Mythoprosodics: Poetry Workshop
Mitch Manning
Poet/Teacher
VISUAL ARTS | HUMANITIES
Continuing the work of last summer’s Sound of the Cosmos workshop, this class takes a mythopoetic approach to prosody and a prosodic approach to myth-making. Through deep reading, creative writing, site-based practice, group recitation, and communal performance, participants create a new poetic cosmos in their own idiom while developing a stronger sense of poetry’s formal, sonic, and imaginative possibilities.
July 27 – August 10
Painting 101
Anthony Titus
Artist/Architect/Educator
VISUAL ARTS
This workshop offers an immersive introduction to painting fundamentals through individualized mentorship within a broader communal setting. Framed as a culture of attentive listening and creative discovery, the course supports participants in developing their own perspective, deepening their relationship to artistic process, and finding new pathways toward expression and self-understanding through painting.
July 31 – August 6
Observational Filmmaking
Bill Morrison
Filmmaker
VISUAL ARTS
In this open class, participants use cameras to distill and share their lived experience of time spent at ALN, bringing in footage captured from the surrounding world for daily review and discussion. Emphasizing reflection, collaboration, and process over technical instruction, the workshop culminates in short films of five to ten minutes, with particular encouragement for dialogue with the Creative Music Intensive so that newly made sound and music may also enter the films.
July 31 – August 6
Drawing the Botanical World
Laurie Olinder
Painter/Textile Designer/Filmmaker
VISUAL ARTS
Inspired by the natural world, this workshop unfolds through themed sessions that explore a wide range of materials and approaches including pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, collage, and mixed media. Moving between still life, plein air landscape, collaborative drawing, abstraction, photography, and sketchbook practice, participants investigate scale and observation through plants and landscape, culminating in a group exhibition in an alternative setting.
August 1 – 5
Corporel Mime
Richard Kuperberg
Mime/Modern Dancer
PERFORMING ARTS
This class focuses on expressing thought through movement, drawing on corporel mime as developed through Richard Kuperberg’s studies with Etienne Decroux alongside his training in modern dance and physical clowning. Participants develop a movement vocabulary that can be applied across acting, dance, physical comedy, and performance art.
August 3 – 8
Sculpture 1o1
Nils Folke Anderson
Artist/Educator
VISUAL ARTS
This workshop invites participants to create individual or collaborative sculptural responses to the site of a partially built reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater on the ALN grounds. Using rough cut lumber and other low-cost or free local materials, the class combines basic woodworking and DIY assemblage with spatial studies, asking how sculpture might become both a means and a manifestation of collective and individual agency.
August 3 – 12
Experimental Book Making: Sculpting a Visual Novel
Teun van der Heijden and Alexey Yurenev