Image Journal

We are pleased to announce another Image Intensive, an opportunity to dive deeper into your craft, guided by faculty from our community who understand the unique impulses and challenges facing artists at the intersection of art and faith. From our facilitator, Beth Kephart: Every Thursday afternoon in May, writers will join Beth Kephart for a two-hour workshop that explores and celebrates the lives we live and the memories we carry forward.

44.4 longitude, 68.6 latitude. The coast of what is now called Maine. I write to you, Sibyl, surrounded by birds. I write outside, before the storm, with the crow, pine warbler, Blackburnian warbler, chipping sparrow, red-eyed vireo, chickadee. Lapis lazuli fills me. Nymphalidae (Sibyl) I and II, 2024. Cyanotype on cotton. 96 x 60 inches each. International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy.

We are pleased to announce another Image Intensive, an opportunity to dive deeper into your craft, guided by faculty from our community who understand the unique impulses and challenges facing artists at the intersection of art and faith. From our facilitator, Sophfronia Scott: Some of the most powerful forces in our lives—faith, doubt, longing, grief, moral tension—are invisible.

Description Releasing in fall 2026. Preorder now for 20% off! Theme to be determined by a community vote! The staff at Image is delighted to share the publication of our next curated collection, to be released in 2026. This volume will feature the creative work of writers and visual artists of wide-ranging backgrounds, traditions, and styles.

God of blood clots, God of tumors, God of ended marriages, God of giving up heaven and earth are full of your glory of blood clots breast of cancer, laceration, homeless man hunkering down, hand held out hosanna in the highest of homeless man of surgeon trembling, hand then steady hours on verandah drip into hours in hospital lobby blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord in hospital lobby scar of david, scar of jilted youth, scar of scar let it hunger no more after feasting on heart...

For poet, translator, librettist, and editor Rebecca Gayle Howell, art is a fundamentally collaborative practice of place. Her work, which often probes the intersections between the ecological and spiritual, is invested in the earth as a site of divine intelligence, and in the stories we exchange to understand our place in it.

Remove anything that might be considered dye, And place the actual color in the sky. Before you idolize its present shape, Make sure the naked skin is actual nape. Do not mistake position for its form: Arrangement makes no spectacle of norm. And of its many iterations, make No frivolous considerations. Take, For example, the light one leaves in trees As one departs the earth. There are no seas To be deciphered in the stirring.

I JACOB IS DYING. He’s sworn us to secrecy, but slowly and then faster, people have begun to realize—the clothes that hang on his once portly frame, his yellowish pallor, the bedroom slippers because his feet are too swollen for shoes. A fool could see he’s ill. At a poetry reading he gave in early June, friends and colleagues gathered in the downstairs bar afterward, whispering.

When I saw the title of this workshop, my first question was: "Okay, but what is “spiritual writing?”. Do we mean writing about organized religion? Writing about “spiritual” ideas, such as faith and hope and charity? Are we (gulp) talking about some kind of 19th century “automatic” writing, listening and transcribing from beyond?

Reading Film: The Art of Cinematic Attention "The lights go down," Jules Romains wrote in 1911. "The group dream now begins." Over a hundred years later, film remains one of the most powerful and transformative art forms. This is a class for film lovers. We will spend the week watching and talking about movies with the recognition that enhancing our understanding of film technique will increase our appreciation for the art form.