LungA School is an artist-run art school based in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland that offers programs in Art and Land.

History

Inspired by anarchist pedagogies, the school was founded by Danish artists Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo and Lasse Høgenhof, and Icelandic artist and musician Björt Sigfinnsdóttir, and grew out of the LungA Art Festival. Like the festival before it, the school's name is a portmanteau of the Icelandic words 'lista' (art) and 'ungur' (young).

The school was formalized in 2013 with the first program launching in 2014, and is one of only two folk high schools in Iceland, joined by Lýðháskólinn á Flateyri in 2017. It takes applicants aged 18 years and over from around the world.

Facilities

Many of LungA School's buildings and facilities are co-opted from local industry, either occupying spaces underused outside of Seyðisfjörður's busy tourist season or redeveloping spaces vacated by changes to the local fishing industry. Since 2016 the school has been the host to an experimental community radio station, Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, part of the Lithuania-based Independent Community Radio Network.

Administration

American British artist and curator Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson was hired as the new director of the school in October 2023.