Before social media, before the instantaneous dissemination of projects and a certain individualism, the collectives born in art academies lived in a strong climate of sharing, expressed in the instagram profile and crowdsourcing project @90sartschool.
Started just under a year ago, the project grew out of a base of archive photos by Matt Atkatz, a former student at the Rhode Island School of Design. Since then, many alumni have been sharing photos of their underground nights out at iconic venues of the vibrant art scene of the time.

The rebellious nights of a burnt-out youth that went on to produce artists of all kinds, who developed their own style in an atmosphere of absolute freedom and strangeness. @90sartschool is a journey through time for several generations, one more adult who experienced their own youth in the 90s and who can grasp the cultural references present in many shots. For teenagers, the archive is not a nostalgic tale but rather a source of inspiration and a time machine within environments that they still live in but which have undergone a strong identity transformation.