Roll Your Own MFA (Introduction to Self-education)

In this session we will discuss pursuing education in arts & technology through workshops, small programs, tiny schools, conferences, incubators, and other part time & short-term opportunities. For many people professional degrees are out of reach for time, financial, or other practical/personal reasons. However there are many different ways to pursue learning in the arts & technology space outside of degree programs.

In this session I will give a short introduction to self-education and building a school for yourself. I will talk a bit about my own attempts at achieving a self-education comparable to an MFA including some tips & tricks.

After the introduction we will build a course catalog together for a virtual school starting from a base list of educational opportunities and experiences. Participants can add other programs, opportunities, books, movies, and ideas to the list. We will then discuss some of these options and consider how you can put pieces from the catalog together to make your own educational program.

A previous workshop from ITP can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/172792458

Session documentation is available here: http://bit.ly/unschoolcatalog