The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the mostly anonymous artist collective founded by a group of Cooper Union alumni, will reopen its free unaccredited art school, the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU), in a new location, on the 3rd floor of 34 Avenue A.
The school, which was founded in 2009 on West Broadway with classes like “XXXtreme Performance Studies,” “The Artist at Work” and the recurring workshop class “What is a Metaphor?”, began as a response to the “$200,000-debt-model of art education.” The first class emphasized a collaborative spirit: it was called “B.Y.O.U.” (Build Your Own University), and in it, according to a course description, students talked about “admission procedures, rubrics of success, governance, etc.” An open house at the new location, on Sept. 9 at 4 p.m., will pick up the discussion where they left off.
“This Open House will be an opportunity for people who have participated in the past and people who are interested in participating in BHQFU’s future to connect with each other and start brainstorming,” BHQF said in an email interview.