Re-imagining A Safe Space, co-curated by Deborah Willis and Melissa Harris, will explore critical questions regarding the idea of a safe space. We hope to reach deeper and richer understanding of our needs as a public—and how those needs differ depending on demographics and who we are individually.

In an era of “fake news” and “alternative facts,” Bending The Frame, based upon a book of the same name by Fred Ritchin, presents a variety of image-based strategies from documentary photography and visual journalism that, when combined with contemporary art practices, “bend the frame” with the intention of creating greater social impact and a wider discussion that may then lead to social change.

Join us at ITP as Ultimaker visits for it's first educator workshop of the year. Registration is required.

Artistic research — the idea that artistic and embodied practices not only draw upon but also generate knowledge — is increasingly common globally, but remains marginal in the United States. What is at stake in the claim that artistic and embodied practice can be research? What possibilities might be opened by such a claim and what legitimate resistances exist? This panel of scholar-practitioners and artist-researchers will discuss the relationships between practice and research in their own work, how they navigate diverse epistemologies across academic and artistic institutions, and what possible futures they envision.