Upcoming & Current Programs
Weaving Workshops
In-Person
Weaving is for everyone and its uses are boundless. The interlocking grid can be used to create images, architectural structure, domestic utilitarian objects and more. Join weaver and artist Margot Becker in for an evening of frame …
TRANSFORMATION Project 2024
On-Site
The Transformation Project is a collaborative effort involving the NOpiates Committee, Arts Letters & Numbers, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, the Rensselaer County Mental Health-Student Assistance Program, the Rensselaer County Sheriff's …
Indian Ragas with Michael Harrison
Virtual
Musicians in any genre, working at any level from amateur to professional, are invited to join this welcoming community where we'll learn by doing. Join in with your voice or your instrument …
Past Programs
Future UnKnown Summit
CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts)
2017
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Unlocking the Creativity of Youth
UNICEF (Office of Innovation) EXPO Astana
2017
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Spatial Literacy: Where do we know what we know?
TEDxCooperUnion
2017
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Beijing Barn Bibliotheca
CAFA x Arts Letters & Numbers
2018
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Youth-FX : Finding Home
Albany High-school x Arts Letters & Numbers
2019
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Information Poverty
UNICEF (Office of Innovation)
2017
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Aarhus Arc
Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark
2012
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Chancellor’s Summit
Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA, Beijing, China
2017
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
The Alternative Art School Fair
Pioneer Works
2018
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy
Arts Letters & Numbers
2019
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Deciding to See
Arts Letters & Numbers
2018
Music, Film, Screening, Lecture, Collaboration, Workshop, Spotlight, Seminar, Conference, Performance
Past Summers
Revolution: Thesis at ALN
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2019
Thesis at ALN was led by David Gersten, to give artists, makers and thinkers of any discipline the time and space to explore their questions and to develop their personal works. The four week program included a regular schedule of, one-on-one, studio visits, as well as, weekly seminars and listening critiques. The creative intensity that people brought to their works was incredible, the studios were bubbling …
Hinges Mirrors & Eclipses
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2018
In the Summer of 2018, Our 7th Summer Workshop gathered over 40 people from over 20 countries, creating and sharing works: artists, filmmakers, musicians, composers, physicists, activists, poets, mathematicians, photographers, actors, architects, sound artists, policy makers, mimes, chefs, scientists and more!
Constitution
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2017
The demands of our time are urgent: our present and emerging challenges, and the very real possibilities for a better world, calls for new modes of comprehension and action, new questions, and new forms of knowledge.With CONSTITUTION, Arts Letters & Numbers proposed a dynamic crucible of free thought, a space where the widest spectrum of who we are could ask the questions of our time and create …
Zoëtrope Sun
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2016
In the Summer of 2018, Our 7th Summer Workshop gathered over 40 people from over 20 countries, creating and sharing works: artists, filmmakers, musicians, composers, physicists, activists, poets, mathematicians, photographers, actors, architects, sound artists, policy makers, mimes, chefs, scientists and more!
Galapagos Now:
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2015
Today, education in the broadest sense holds the capacity of developing new pathways of interaction and forms of knowledge that address the challenges of our increasingly complex world. Arts Letters & Numbers is a space to understand, withstand and ultimately create transformation that embodies our best hopes and aspirations …
Circling Towards a Disciplinary Chora
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2014
Today, education in the broadest sense holds the capacity of developing new pathways of interaction and forms of knowledge that address the challenges of our increasingly complex world. Arts Letters & Numbers is a space to understand, withstand and ultimately create transformation that embodies our best hopes and aspirations…
Exquisite Broken Circle: Suddenly a Chora
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2013
The 2013 summer's workshop grew out of the perfect combination of planning and poetry. Building from the experiences of our first summer workshop, and incorporating discoveries found through our recent work, we developed this summer’s workshop titled ‘Exquisite Broken Circle; Suddenly a Chora’. Structured through six…
Circles: Drawing on Friendship
Arts Letters & Numbers
Summer 2012