FERAL ARTS SCHOOL YOU DID

What is the Feral Arts School?

The Feral is an alternative art school. We try to get the crap out the way that comes with the over bureaucratization of the art schools. But at the core of it is good quality art teaching, for everyone.

Can anyone join the Feral or can people just drop in?

So we have stock courses that we run across the year and we recruit for these. The bottom line is we need to make enough money to pay the tutors well and to cover the materials. We have a sliding scale for people who can't afford and we do get bits of charity grant money as well. So, we can subsidise new courses just to test the water.

The Feral is a co-operative and we run a membership model. We open that up to people who are showing interest. If people come back a couple times and are looking at progressing, we ask if they would like to become a member. It’s a nice thing when people do… there’s a funny ritual as you have to pay a pound!

Why would people become member?

You get access to the AGM and get elected onto the board, which lets people give input into the structures that govern the Feral and how it runs.

Can I join as a beginner having done no art? Yeah you can come as a complete novice. We run courses at different levels. We’ve also got different pathways for progression, but these are more like in a horizontal way. You can either move through different courses or we can move you towards having more of an art practice etc. After a few courses, we even see if students want a 24 hour access studio. There's lots of options.