Following the success of its inaugural year, Arts Letters & Numbers is thrilled to bring back Craft 1o1 for its second year. This innovative model of education is rooted in an ethos of listening, mentorship, and collaboration, offering an immersive and dynamic learning experience. Craft 1o1 fosters a diverse spectrum of practices—material, spatial, and poetic—bringing them into close proximity to deepen experiences, relationships, and understandings.

Between July 1 and August 30, more than twenty programs will take place on and around our Averill Park Campus. With a balance of depth and openness, we aim to provide participants with unique skills and transformative learning opportunities.

/ OPEN CALL: Artist Residency 2025

The Arts Letters & Numbers Artist Residency offers a space for artists, writers, composers, performers, and researchers to focus deeply on their work in an environment that values experimentation, dialogue, and interdisciplinary exchange. Situated within the historic Faith Mills Complex in rural Upstate New York, the residency provides flexible studio spaces, shared and private living accommodations, and the freedom to shape one’s own creative process. Residents engage with a community of peers through open studios, discussions, and informal gatherings while maintaining the solitude necessary for independent work. With residencies available year-round, ranging from 1 to 12 weeks, artists have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an atmosphere of inquiry and creation, supported by both the physical space and the collective energy of those around them.

/ Past Programs & Collaborations


Future UnKnown Summit

CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts)

2017

Unlocking the Creativity of Youth

UNICEF (Office of Innovation) EXPO Astana

2017

Chancellor’s Summit

Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA, Beijing, China

2017

/ Video Introduction


/ Recent Events


24 Hours @ Once

RPI’s CRAIVE Lab

The Goddess Called Time

Jimmy Lim

Symbiosis in Love

Qi Ming

Weaving Workshop

Margot Becker


/ ALN News

A collection of the latest from ALN and its affiliates, including upcoming events, programs, speaking engagements, and other projects. This space also celebrates the milestones, achievements, and ongoing work of ALN alumni, collaborators, and community members.


/ ALN X Youth Programs

Over the years our collaboration with youth and supportive organizations have taken on many forms. From one-off afternoon experiences to multi-month programs, with each engagement young people have the chance to construct remarkable opportunities to explore their creative nature along with the creative expressions of those around them.

“Which Way is Home”, Albany High School & Arts Letters & Numbers collaboration, 2016.

ALN x B-Unbound Schenectady: 6-Week Musical Improvisation Course

Doors of Hope Community Mural, Arts Letters & Numbers collaboration, 2023

Averill Park High School at Transformation Project: Art for SUD awareness and healing.

/ Lectures & Panels

This collection brings together lectures, discussions, and panel conversations that have been an integral part of Arts Letters & Numbers’ programming, whether hosted, created, or curated by us, both virtually and on-site. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, these sessions engage with critical ideas at the intersections of art, philosophy, education, and contemporary thought.


The Rampancy of Golden Ratios Across Faces and Screens

Walter Murch & Lawrence Weschler

Artist and Disability Activist Riva Lehrer in conversation with Lawrence Weschler

Riva Lehrer & Lawrence Weschler

An Architectonic Technological Sublimity with NASA Chief Scientist James Green.

Michael Benson & Jim Green

/ Film Room

ALN’s Film Room is a collection of curated films, videos, lectures and discursive events by alum and members of the ALN community and collaborators from across the globe. This compilation spans a range of disciplines situated between various aspects of imagery, sound, cinema and architecture.


Kite Choir Sounding: May 10, 2019, Seydisfjordur (excerpt). Brass Plate Ribbon Reel.

Firat Erdim

Traditional and Underground House of the Future

John Lin Chun-han

Terry Riley Stories from a Life in Music

Terry Riley & Michael Harrison