LA ESCUELA___

LA ESCUELA___ is an artist-run platform for experimental learning and collective making in public spaces. It describes itself as a platform for free and open access education, understanding art as a form of knowledge production and education as an artistic practice in itself. The initiative partners with universities, institutions, and communities to create formative projects in public spaces throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Its roving campus operates online and on-site through a hybrid system of digital laboratories and classrooms that take place in public spaces, with a calendar organized into semesterly periods during which public programs are developed in collaboration with affiliated institutions and guest scholars who define the curatorial axes of each semester. The platform is rooted in a long genealogy of Latin American artists and educators who seek to bring education closer to real contexts, so as to learn and act on them. Through public learning, it proposes a transdisciplinary program where diverse forms of practice coincide through the transformative capacity of education. Its community is a translocal network of Latin American artists and educators, building an archive of collective research and contemporary art. LA ESCUELA___ aims to inspire social action by mapping the legacies of artist-run practices and collective-based educational models in Latin America and placing them in a global context. LA ESCUELA___ was founded by artist and architect Miguel Braceli and the international foundation Siemens Stiftung. After five years of building a translocal network of over 350 artistic, educational, and research collaborations across Latin America and the Caribbean, LA ESCUELA___ opened a new chapter through La Escuela, Inc., its New York-based nonprofit organization, which is a 501(c)(3). The platform presents works at auction, including a Sotheby's Contemporary Discoveries auction in October, with proceeds supporting its continued development. Its programs include CLASSROOMS and AULA projects led by teaching-artists and collectives, such as Nomasmetaforas' "Technologies of Collective Dreaming" in Cauca, Colombia, and Andréa Hygino & Daniela Seixas' "Papel de pão, Papel de chão" in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

LA ESCUELA___ is an artist-run platform for experimental learning and collective making in public spaces. It was founded by artist and architect Miguel Braceli and the international foundation Siemens Stiftung. The platform is rooted in a long genealogy of Latin American artists and educators who seek to bring education closer to real contexts, so as to learn and act on them. Through public learning, it proposes a transdisciplinary program where diverse forms of practice coincide through the transformative capacity of education. Over its first five years, LA ESCUELA___ built a translocal network of over 350 artistic, educational, and research collaborations across Latin America and the Caribbean. Its roving campus operates online and on-site through a hybrid system of digital laboratories and classrooms that take place in public spaces. The calendar is organized into semesterly periods, during which public programs are developed in collaboration with affiliated institutions and guest scholars who define the curatorial axes of each semester. The community is a translocal network of Latin American artists and educators, building an archive of collective research and contemporary art. The platform hopes to inspire social action by mapping the legacies of artist-run practices and collective-based educational models in Latin America and placing them in a global context. After five years, LA ESCUELA___ opened a new chapter through La Escuela, Inc., its New York-based nonprofit organization, which is a 501(c)(3). This new chapter is described as opening paths for hemispheric exchange. In October, LA ESCUELA___ presented works at Sotheby's as part of the Contemporary Discoveries auction, open for bidding from 1-8 October, with proceeds supporting its continued development. Its programs include CLASSROOMS and AULA projects led by teaching-artists and collectives. Examples include Nomasmetaforas' "Technologies of Collective Dreaming" in Cauca, Colombia, in 2024, where participants—students of the Intercultural Indigenous Autonomous University-CRIC—slept with masks made of vegetal textile containing ritual plants linked to medicinal practices of the Indigenous territories of Cauca, accompanied by a traditional medicine practitioner from the Council of Elders of the UAIIN-CRIC. Another example is Andréa Hygino & Daniela Seixas' "Papel de pão, Papel de chão" [Bread Paper, Ground Paper] in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2024, which developed artistic and pedagogical actions around the right to decent housing and food, symbolically unfolding in the forms of bread and ground. Other AULA projects include Javier Robelo's "The Dance of Birds: Lessons on Sculpture, Performance, and Freedom," Sofía Acosta Varea's "Territories of Memory: Archives, Cartographies, and Collective Drifts," and Mauro Suárez Torrico's "Conference of Landscapes: Chorus, Fiction, and Performative Practices in Public Space."

• LA ESCUELA___ founded by artist and architect Miguel Braceli and the international foundation Siemens Stiftung.

• Over five years, builds a translocal network of over 350 artistic, educational, and research collaborations across Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Opens a new chapter through La Escuela, Inc., its New York-based nonprofit organization, now a 501(c)(3).

• Presents works at Sotheby's Contemporary Discoveries auction, open for bidding from 1-8 October, with proceeds supporting its continued development.

• CLASSROOMS program includes Nomasmetaforas' "Technologies of Collective Dreaming" in Cauca, Colombia.

• CLASSROOMS program includes Andréa Hygino & Daniela Seixas' "Papel de pão, Papel de chão" in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Free and open access education platform; artist-run; transdisciplinary; rooted in Latin American artist-educator genealogy; hybrid digital and public-space learning.

• CLASSROOMS

  Local and digital classrooms in public spaces, led by teaching-artists and collectives.

• AULA projects

  Proposed projects by artists and scholars exploring territory, memory, landscape, and collective practices.

• Roving campus

  Hybrid online and on-site campus with digital laboratories and public-space classrooms.

• Semesterly public programs

  Public programs developed with affiliated institutions and guest scholars defining curatorial axes.

1. 1Campuslaescuela.art
2. 2Aboutlaescuela.art
3. 3CLASSROOMS: Technologies of Collective Dreaming, by Nomasmetaforaslaescuela.art
4. 4CLASSROOM: Papel de pão, Papel de chão [Bread Paper, Ground Paper], with Andréa Hygino & Daniela Seixaslaescuela.art
5. 5La Escuelawikidata.org