Image Text Ithaca

In our final roundup, we are pleased to announce incoming MFA candidates Dylan Angell, Char Klein, Abigail Greene, Marcus Rahauser, and MJ Sanqui. 🙂‍↕️

We would now like to introduce four more stellar incoming graduate students in the Class of ‘28 cohort: Isabella Marie Garcia, Ezra Noah James, Emily Shafer, and Daniel Hartmann. 🤩

We continue our long awaited Class of ‘28 student announcements with the introduction of Melanie Urban, Nilton Maltz, Justine Kwon, and Jesse Jackson 😎

Over the next four days, we will be announcing the Class of 2028! Please give a warm welcome to Taj Marquis Reed, Zoe Lemelson, Sean Donahue, and Sabrina Slipchenko. We are so thrilled for this talented cohort to begin the program this summer 🙏

🚨🚨🚨Reminder that applications are due May 4!

The Image Text Workshop Residency is a unique opportunity to work closely and collaboratively in an intimate setting with internationally established and emerging artists, writers, publishers, curators, and designers.

Each summer, the program invites a group of workshop residents from an open call to join the Image Text visiting artists and graduate students for an exploratory workshop in a rural setting in the Finger Lakes region near Ithaca, NY. This intensive collaborative retreat offers an opportunity for a non-hierarchical engagement between all participants with the aim of generating new ideas and interventions into existing practices in the visual and literary arts. Across three and a half days of experimentation, play, work, meals, and discussion, participants work independently or form spontaneous teams or collectives, and projects emerge, culminating in an afternoon of exhibition and performance. 

The Summer 2026 Image Text Workshop will run from June 22–25.

The Image Text Workshop Residency is a unique opportunity to work closely and collaboratively in an intimate setting with internationally established and emerging artists, writers, publishers, curators, and designers.

Each summer, the program invites a group of workshop residents from an open call to join the Image Text visiting artists and graduate students for an exploratory workshop in a rural setting in the Finger Lakes region near Ithaca, NY. This intensive collaborative retreat offers an opportunity for a non-hierarchical engagement between all participants with the aim of generating new ideas and interventions into existing practices in the visual and literary arts. Across three and a half days of experimentation, play, work, meals, and discussion, participants work independently or form spontaneous teams or collectives, and projects emerge, culminating in an afternoon of exhibition and performance. 

The Summer 2026 Image Text Workshop will run from June 22–25. Link in bio to apply!

The Image Text Workshop Residency is a unique opportunity to work closely and collaboratively in an intimate setting with internationally established and emerging artists, writers, publishers, curators, and designers.

Each summer, the program invites a group of workshop residents from an open call to join the Image Text visiting artists and graduate students for an exploratory workshop in a rural setting in the Finger Lakes region near Ithaca, NY. This intensive collaborative retreat offers an opportunity for a non-hierarchical engagement between all participants with the aim of generating new ideas and interventions into existing practices in the visual and literary arts. Across three and a half days of experimentation, play, work, meals, and discussion, participants work independently or form spontaneous teams or collectives, and projects emerge, culminating in an afternoon of exhibition and performance. 

The Summer 2026 Image Text Workshop will run from June 22–25.

Link in bio to apply!

Congrats to Image Text Alumni for their participation in the upcoming MoMA PS1 Greater New York 2026 exhibition! Cinthya’s work was selected along with 52 other artists and collectives living and working in NYC.

Congrats to Image Text Faculty Alumni for their participation in the upcoming MoMA PS1 Greater New York 2026 exhibition! Cinthya’s work was selected along with 52 other artists and collectives living and working in NYC.

We had the most wonderful, inspiring week in Tokyo for our Travel Practicum class. Thank you to the artists, curators, publishers, writers, and poets for your generosity in hosting us as well as facilitating such fantastic dialogues for the students. Our eventful, electric wanderings in Tokyo will be cherished!

Day One:

📌A visit with Ihiro Hayami, curator, activist and organizer of the T3 Photo Festival, and three artists from the Tokyo Dialogues project: Yuki Shimizu, Yuji Hamada, Nozomi Suzuki

📌Meeting with artist Gillochindox Gillochindae at CON Gallery

📌A trip to Hand Saw Press and RISO studio

Day Two:

📌A studio visit with lens-based artist Naohiro Utagawa

📌A meeting with POST Books

📌A conversation with artists Mia Shirai and Ryudai Takano at Yumiko Chiba Associates Gallery

Day Three:

📌Lectures by writer and translator Mariko Nagai and designer/writer Ian Lynam

📌Visiting Superlabo Bookstore and its founder/publisher, Yasunori Hoki

📌A thesis book dummies review for the Class of 2026, featuring Angela!

Day Four:

📌A meeting with Katsuya Ishida, founder of  MEM Gallery

📌A special excursion to SKWAT/Twelvebooks and a dialogue with Atsushi Hamanaka-publisher, book distributor, and activist.

📌A visit with photo critic, curator, archivist, anthropologist and scholar Mika Kobayashi 

Day Five:

📌A discussion with poet and translator Yuki Tanaka

📌Tiger Mountain Bookshop discussion with book fair organizer Naoko Higashi, featuring exhibition by designer Daisuke Kano