IMA alumni Samara Smith and Laura Chipley have been selected for LMCC’s 2025 Arts Center Residency at Governors Island and exploring the historical ecology of New York harbor alongside a cohort of 18 other artists/collaboratives.
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IMA alum Pam Sporn’s Film Screening
IMA alum Pam Sporn’s film Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories will be screening at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Centennial Event on Sept. 24.
IMA alum Alice Arnold receives grant
IMA alum Alice Arnold’s documentary film SoHo in Flux: Art, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis received a 2025 Graham Foundation Grant. The film tells SoHo’s story of transforming cultural capital into real estate capital.
IMA MFA Spring Thesis Show 2025
May 16th + May 17th 2025Thesis Show Program is here + RSVP here Body of Light by Lucy Adams multichannel video + presentation A two channel video installation exploring the life and legacy of artists’ model and actress Audrey Munson. Munson posed for sculptures all over New York City in the […]
IMA alum speaking at We The People
IMA alum Betty Yu will be speaking at We The People: A Forum on Working Class Artists in America. Presented by The Office of The Arts at The Frederick Loewe Theater on May 1st | 9AM.
Film screening of Neirud with Fernanda Faya
Film screening of Neirud with the director, Fernanda Faya in conversation with researcher, Flor BarcelóApril 11 | 6-9PM | RSVP Free and open to the public “Growing up, filmmaker Fernanda Roth Faya knew Neirud as her “aunt,” a family member close to her grandmother. What Faya uncovers after Neirud’s death is a […]
IMA alum’s podcast series is on the NYT top 10 list
IMA alum Jess Shane’s podcast series Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is on The New York Times 2024 top ten best podcast list. The first two episodes were part of her IMA thesis project. The New York Times calls it a “dizzying and dazzling deconstruction of the documentary industrial complex.”
IMA alumni are part of the Fellows of Social Practice CUNY
IMA alumni Jess Shane and Chloe Smolarski are part of the 2024–25 Fellows of Social Practice CUNY, a Mellon Foundation – funded initiative based at the CUNY Graduate Center.
IMA alum is part of the Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows
IMA alum Sekiya Dorsett is part of the 2024-2026 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows.