2018, 2021- Jaimie Iglehart Frasson

Jaime Iglehart Frasson (Jaime Idea) is a multimedia artist exploring dreamscapes, community, healing, and the line between imagination and concrete world-building. She has worked within a variety of disciplines, including filmmaking, installation, expanded media, research and education. Her projects involve socially engaged ‘play,’ dystopian fantasy and highly personal iconography involving infantile regression, fertility worship, and revolutionary melodrama.

Jaime‘s practice started with film, branching out into installation, performance and social sculpture. Utopia School had been her most ambitious project, an effort at creating an alternate reality by seeking to reproduce the positive social constructs she has experienced, studied and documented.

Jaime opened the first Utopia School in New York City, October 2014 at Flux Factory. Following that she reproduced the model four more times in New York (January 2018), Copenhagen (August 2016, September 2016), and here in Kingsbury (November 2021).

Jaime’s first visit to Habitable Spaces in 2018 gave us our first taste of Utopia with our 4th Annual Summer Solstice Film Festival entirely curated by her, which included three short documentaries on post capitalist communities, as well as a workshop she lead encouraging participants to design their own Utopia.

The Utopia School opened in Kingsbury for the first time in 2021, with over 54 classes being offered by 22 different artists, makers, scholars, and activists which took place at Habitable Spaces as well as Teatro de Artes De Juan Seguin from Sunday, November 14th through Saturday, November 20th.