Ithaca College

The Department of Writing kicks off its fall Handwerker Reading Series this Tuesday with an evening devoted to image text works by both undergraduate Writing students and graduate students from IC's Image Text MFA program.

Tuesday's event will take place at 6pm in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center) and feature image text presentations by the following students:

Edith Fikes is a writer and photographer. Her current work revolves around ideas related to artificial intelligence, happiness, selfhood, and the possibility of real robot lives. She is an MFA candidate in the Image Text graduate program at the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. 

Ash (The Spoken) Williams is a junior writing major and still photography minor from Philadelphia. With a passion for poetry specifically, as well as the art of the photo, he is constantly looking for ways to combine the two to produce a stunning, thought-provoking, visual and audio piece of work to challenge the way you think about social issues and the way we live our lives.

Jason Lipeles is a writer, community organizer and photographer. He experiments with vulnerability as an intimate method to invite participants to share and experience in small-scale transformative moments. In his project "Letters to Paul," he finds himself drawn to the practice of letter-writing to engage authors, ex-partners and onlookers. Jason is from Los Angeles and currently based in Ithaca.    

Tyler Macri is a Senior at Ithaca College studying Cinema, Photography, and Writing. Utilizing most commonly the 16mm film format, he's used both image and text to explore the world around him from early age. Employing the aesthetics of surrealism to contextualize a variety of topics, his work repeatedly explores the impressionistic, psychological space that exists between people through a variety of personal and cultural terrains.

So please stop by for some exciting, genre-blending works of literature and art. The event is of course free and open to the public.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jacob White at jrwhite@ithaca.edu or (904) 501-9860. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.