Image Text Workshop Residency
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.
Above image: A collaborative performance piece during the 2023 Image Text Workshop held at The Soil Factory in Ithaca, New York. The work featured visiting artist Shala Miller and workshop participants Alice Romanov and Karen Lue.
Workshops
Each summer, we select a group of workshop residents from an open call to join the Image Text visiting artists and graduate students for a three-and-a-half-day exploratory workshop at the intersection of the visual and literary arts. We meet 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. 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 2024 Image Text Workshop will run from June 30–July 3.
Associated Visiting Artists
Past workshop visiting artists have included Claudia Rankine, Carmen Winant, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Tonya Foster, Laura Letinsky, Lucas Blalock, Jason Fulford, Bruno Ceschel, Lucy Ives, David Hartt, Tisa Bryant, Matthew Connors, Mariela Sancari, John Keene, Michael Ashkin, Charlie Engman, Dawn Kim, and Shala Miller, among many others.
2024 Workshop Visiting Artists include Nydia Blas, Bruno Ceschel, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Shannon Ebner.
The workshop is led by Image Text program faculty codirectors Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner.
Application Process and Requirements
Every spring, we announce an open call for Image Text Workshop Residency applications. There are no educational or professional prerequisites for consideration beyond an interest and creative work. Applicants should submit the following by April 29, 2024:
- A ten-page, PDF portfolio of visual art, writing, or both (applicants should demonstrate a sustained practice in one or both media)
- A short bio
- A one-paragraph statement of interest
- CV
Residency fee, including lunch and dinner prepared by a wonderful local chef, is $1,300.
We have limited scholarship aid available for accepted applicants with strong financial need. If you wish to be considered for scholarship aid to defray the cost of attendance, please indicate that at the end of your application statement.
