SUMMER SCHOOL by The School of Making Thinking

​This summer 2025, The School of Making Thinking is offering all online classes to heat up your summer. Why? We want to expand the reach of our peer-led classes, supporting artists to build a community of practice, expand their school of thought, and deepen their methodology. Plus, summer's cool. Classes are:

EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: PHOTOGRAPHY & ​DIARISTIC WRITING

with Morrison Gong

Go deep with yourself. This course explores how intimate photography and writing can work together to express personal, emotional and mythical narratives, encouraging risk-taking, vulnerability, and raw self-expression.

"DEPLATFORMING": DRAMATIZING NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POST-CAPITALIST DIGITAL LABOR

with Daphne Silbiger

Join playwright Daphne Silbiger is an experimental script writing course to develop new narratives built on post-capitalist analysis. This course looks at the ways we are all compelled to participate as digital laborers, performing unpaid, creative, post-capitalist labor for the benefit of tech platforms. Students will develop new original material inspired by this analysis through scriptwriting prompts.

MEAT AND ITS OTHERS

with Nicholas Nauman

Join Food-Not-Bomb’s, long-time restaurant worker, and the genius behind the experimental performance kitchen EAT, Nicholas Nauman for an experimental, online recipe creation class where you will go REALLY deep about ingredient sourcing. As culminating projects, students compose “critical recipes” and bring their results to a culminating virtual dinner party.

QUEERING HEALING

dash z & Jay Mimes

This is a relational seminar where we seek to do what we study. Each class will focus on a different aspect of healing: History & Memory Keeping, Relationality & Connection, Marginality & Portal-Making, and Reclaiming Imagination. Oriented to building relationships among participants, the class will culminate in a collectively developed DIY Field Guide to Queering Healing.

NECROPHILANTHROPY:

NONPROFIT KILLERS, CULTURAL WORK & THE CARCERAL STATE

with Charles de Agustin & Emily Rose Apter

This course is a survey of the nonprofit industrial complex’s (NPIC) exploitation of labor and movements. The course will blend history and analysis, culminating in a collaborative project workshopping a speculative organization to explore how work for or against the NPIC can be materially useful to revolutionary movement work.

Please fill out our registration form to claim your spot in one of our Summer School offerings. Tuition is sliding scale $125-$375, and there are also still $75 solidarity rate spots available.

If you are interested in a scholarship position, email [email protected] with subject "Scholarship for Summer School" and include in the body of your email why the class you are interested in is relevant to your practice, and why financial support would be supportive to you at this time.

We are so excited to see you this summer!

07/28/2025

$250.00