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Image Text Ithaca, 129 Sibley Dome Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2026)

04/28/2026

🚨🚨🚨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.

04/22/2026

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!

04/07/2026

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!

03/20/2026

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.

03/20/2026

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.

03/09/2026

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

02/02/2026

To continue our alumni shoutouts, we are presenting various bodies of work from Catherine Gans 💛

Bio:

Catherine Gans is a writer and artist based in New Orleans, where she also works as an archivist of radical literature. She is currently working on a research project about the dangers of safety and an experimental novel about Mary Shelley and mantic acts of revision.

Work Info:

“After Shelley” (2025) is an experimental novel about Mary Shelley and radical acts of revision.

“Please Throw Package Over Fence” (2024) is a zine published through about living under and beyond surveillance in New Orleans.

“!nc3st” (2024) is a zine about TV’s favorite taboo and what it has to do with the failure of capital.

01/30/2026

Very pleased to continue showcasing our talented alumni, featuring and a selection of her work ☀️

Bio:
Kamaria Shepherd is an interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. Her work explores themes of race, womanhood, and femininity as an African American woman. She works within fiction, poetry, painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation. Shepherd has exhibited in
Human Resources and Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, Chen’s in Brooklyn, New Release Gallery in New York City, and WIRWIR gallery in Berlin. Shepherd’s solo installation, “She Learned Herself Awake” exhibited at Bermudez Projects in Los Angeles. Her lithographs have also been exhibited at the Houston Museum of African American Culture and the Arthur Rose Museum at Claflin University. Her installations and paintings have been featured on episodes of The L Word
GQ. She earned an M.F.A. in painting from UCLA in 2018 and a B.F.A. in painting from RISD in 2015. Shepherd is the 2018 UCLA recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and recently completed her M.F.A. in Image Text from Cornell University. She attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Frans Masereel Centrum, and was a Visiting Researcher at CAD+SR in Spoleto, Italy. She is currently expanding her novella titled,
“Life of a So-Called Texas PreacHer,” into a novel. Shepherd is also an art instructor at Houston City College.

Artwork & Images:
1. Kamari’s painting of Kamira (present-day), 32 in x 28 in (framed), egg tempera on masonite,
2025
2. Life of a So-Called Texas PreacHer, 5 in x 8 in, cover of thesis book (novella), 2025
3. My Queen’s t**s breastfeed a nation, 14 in x 17 in, charcoal and oil pastel on Bristol, 2025

01/28/2026

Our next Class of 2025 graduate feature is 🫶

Bio:
Maxwell Harvey-Sampson is a q***r photographer and writer based in Syracuse, NY. Fueled by an interest in the q***rness of art history, Maxwell’s work is highly referential. Going as far back as the renaissance era, Maxwell’s artistic style pulls from different art periods, allowing for the iconization, q***ring, and recontextualization of formerly cis-hetero narratives A champion of both digital and analog processes, much of his early work was created in pursuit of a social document. Originally from a small town in Pennsylvania, Maxwell is driven by his survival of predominantly xenophobic, heteronormative spaces to celebrate shared q***r histories and stories.

Work Statement:
“The Bed, The Light, The Water” places strangers, lovers, and friends in parallel places of safety and healing. Following significant personal turmoil I found these places offered enough security and warmth to process unresolved trauma. Often I saw reflected from my subject an acceptance I had yet to experience. At times, I saw empathy and shared experience. Once in a while, when intimacy was impossible to engender, I contented myself to create formal portraits of my sitter.

01/26/2026

We will be featuring several of our Class of 2025 graduates and their selected work over the next couple of weeks, starting with 💛

Bio:
Danielle Garcia Tubo is a Filipino American poet, artist, and educator based in Queens. Their work appears in the Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press Winter 2025 issue and is forthcoming in Third Coast Magazine. Garcia Tubo was a respective finalist for the 2025 Poetry Prizes of Third Coast Magazine and The Plentitudes Journal, as well as the Café Royal Cultural Foundation’s 2025 Spring Literature Grant. Garcia Tubo was an editor and contributor for their MFA cohort’s experimental print publication Allapart, which received the 2024-2025 Cornell Council for the Arts Grant. Garcia Tubo holds an MFA in Image Text from Cornell University and a BA in Art History from the University of Florida, and is currently working towards publishing their thesis manuscript “This, too, is Legacy” as their first book of poems.

Thesis:
Danielle Garcia Tubo’s poetry manuscript “This, too, is Legacy” explores questions of diasporic identity from the perspective of a Filipino American relearning their heritage languages as an adult after emigrating from the Philippines at a young age. Inspired by poets Craig Santos Perez, Layli Long Soldier, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Paul Celan, Garcia Tubo reflects on the generational impact of Spanish and American rule in the Philippines, creating the backdrop for a story about family, survival, and love. Through a microcosm of poetic forms- shapeshifting from lyric to concrete, free verse to docupoetry- Garcia Tubo employs English interwoven with Tagalog, Bisaya, and Ilocano to create a voice of sirenic cacophony that navigates the grief in losing mother tongues to mass displacement and assimilation.

Work Title (Garment):
“Diitiyak”

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01/26/2026

We will be featuring several of our Class of 2025 graduates and their selected work over the next couple of weeks, starting with 💛

BIO:
Danielle Garcia Tubo is a Filipino American poet, artist, and educator based in Queens. Their work appears in the Poetry Society of New York’s Milk Press Winter 2025 issue and is forthcoming in Third Coast Magazine. Garcia Tubo was a respective finalist for the 2025 Poetry Prizes of Third Coast Magazine and The Plentitudes Journal, as well as the Café Royal Cultural Foundation’s 2025 Spring Literature Grant. Garcia Tubo was an editor and contributor for their MFA cohort’s experimental print publication Allapart, which received the 2024 - 25 Cornell Council for the Arts Grant. Garcia Tubo holds an MFA in Image Text from Cornell University and a BA in Art History from the University of Florida, and is currently working towards publishing their thesis manuscript “This, too, is Legacy” as their first book of poems.

THESIS:
Danielle Garcia Tubo’s poetry manuscript “This, too, is Legacy” explores questions of diasporic identity from the perspective of a Filipino American relearning their heritage languages as an adult after emigrating from the Philippines at a young age. Inspired by poets Craig Santos Perez, Layli Long Soldier, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Paul Celan, Garcia Tubo reflects on the generational impact of Spanish and American rule in the Philippines, creating the backdrop for a story about family, survival, and love. Through a microcosm of poetic forms—shapeshifting from lyric to concrete, free verse to docupoetry—Garcia Tubo employs English interwoven with Tagalog, Bisaya, and Ilocano to create a voice of sirenic cacophony that navigates the grief in losing mother tongues to mass displacement and assimilation.

WORK TITLE (Garment):
“Ditiyak”

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