unschool MFA

material and virtual world. In 2002, Greaves received a BA in Cultural Anthropology, and an honorary Minor in Studio Art, from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). Born in New York City in the summer of 1980 to working-class Caribbean-American baby boomers attempting to transition into the American middle class, Greaves was educated exclusively in Manhattan’s private schools, beginning with Trinity Preschool (Lower Manhattan), followed briefly by Grace Church School (East Village) where she completed kindergarten and First grade before enrolling in The Chapin School (Upper East Side) where she spent 11 years being educated alongside female children of The 1%. Within Greaves, the privileges of this academic history run parallel to its problems, and after a decade spent unraveling her rage from her delight, Greaves emerged able to revel in her curiosity, intellect, and the extraordinary benefits of perspective her outsider status has afforded. Through this durational performance of institutional critique, Greaves deploys the potent coupling of access and denial—the privilege of her insider access to powerful academic institutions and modes, and her outsider’s desire for transparency, nuance, and revolution—to model a new mode of higher education where a person may conceive, and embody the institution of their dreams. Greaves intends to assemble a community of others interested in the future of extra-institutional higher arts education to collectively study the history and presence of the MFA, and to offer new, practical models of higher education in the arts.