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- The Mountain School of Arts, or MSA^, is an alternative pedagogical model based in Los Angeles that provides a tuition-free, community-based education. Founded in 2005 by artists Piero Golia and Eric Wesley, it is the oldest continuous artist-run school in California. MSA^ is often cited as one of the most successful examples of an art school that exists outside of the Educational Industrial Complex, along with the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program (ISP). The development of the school and its program have been written about as "follow[ing] a poetic of the gesture, of the instant, and of actions recalling Fluxus, Gino de Dominicis’ or Paul McCarthy’s works." The school has been featured as one of the most prominent alternative art education models in several exhibitions, notably in the 2010 festival No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents organized by the Tate Modern, UK as well as the 2006 edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach, USA. (en)
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