Ungraded: Art Without a Net™

A hidden mountain school becomes the crucible where American art learns to live without a safety net. By tracking real avant-garde legends inside a no-grades, all-labor commune, the series exposes what happens when education, governance, and creative practice synchronize into a single volatile experiment.

Ungraded: Art Without a Net™ reframes Black Mountain College as a live operating system for art, governance, and identity rather than a static artifact of art history. By dramatizing the mechanics of a no-hierarchy, communal institution under sustained creative pressure, it codifies a template for anthology seasons, docu-drama extensions, and unscripted companion formats. The IP contextualizes avant-garde myth for the streaming era, converts archival cultural memory into a prestige narrative engine, and circulates that system across platforms, territories, and institutional partners.