ICP Community Day

Visit ICP during Community Day to enjoy free admission to learn more about ICP’s community and our current exhibitions— Yves Saint Laurent and Photography and Photobooks USA 2000–25, and join us for a building wide activation!

Reserving a free ticket in advance is strongly recommended.

Activities 

Instax Portrait Studio with Myles Loftin 

Get your Instax film portrait taken by photographer and ICP faculty, Myles Loftin. Free and No RSVP is required. Portraits available while supplies last.  

1–3 PM 

ICP Entrance

ICP Open Education and Membership Information Tables 

Learn more about taking courses and workshops through ICP’s Open Education program and connect with ICP membership to enjoy the benefits of our creative community year-round. 

1–4 PM  

ICP Entrance

ICP Family Art Hour: Communal Braiding 

Bring discarded fabric or used clothes that you want to repurpose for a communal braiding workshop in ICP's galleries, led by educator and artist Cassandra Mayela Allen. 

2–4 PM 

ICP Galleries

Drop-In Zine Workshop with Kelly Luu, Presented by Center for Book Arts 

Learn 3 zine folds and create your own zine using ICP collection images, with artist and Center for Book Arts fellow Kelly Luu. 

3–5 PM 

ICP Café

ICP School and Darkroom Tour 

Enjoy a campus tour of the International Center of Photography’s Lower East Side facilities, including studios, state-of-the-art labs and darkrooms, the equipment room, and more. No RSVP is required to join the tour. 

3:30–4 PM 

ICP School

About the Artists

Myles Loftin is a NYC-based photographer known for his explorations of identity and social issues. A Parsons School of Design graduate, Loftin's work challenges norms through projects like "Hooded", exploring Black culture, and “In “The Life, examining everyday Black queer life. His art has received global recognition, appearing in Vogue and The New York Times. Loftin advocates for diversity in the arts, mentoring aspiring artists and speaking on inclusion. Winner of the Getty Images bursary fund and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, Loftin's impactful imagery sparks dialogue on race and representation, positioning him as a leading voice in contemporary photography and cultural discourse.

Cassandra Mayela Allen is a Venezuelan artist based in New York City whose multidisciplinary practice—encompassing mixed media, textiles, installation, and socially engaged projects— examines memory, belonging, active meditation, and labor as tools for self-healing. Rooted in the migrating body and the objects it carries, her work treats personal belongings as living archives: woven, stitched, and suspended, they become material records inseparable from the communal practices that generate them. Allen foregrounds collaboration and encounter, inviting alternative social networks to participate in the making and meaning of each piece. Her work activates art as a relational process rather than a fixed object, centering acts of making as a means of reaching a state of “flow”, reflection, and connection.

Kelly Luu is an art administrator and artist from Brooklyn, New York. With a deep love for printmaking, book arts, alternative photography, and fashion, you can find Kelly's work thoughtfully littered across the city and snuck into collections. Informally nicknamed "Zine Queen" by her peers, Kelly has taught zine classes all over New York, printed and distributed multiple publications, and curated a zine showcase, Zines as Dialogue, at Mishkin Gallery. You can currently find her Coney Island Zine Series at Wonder Gallery in the Coney Island History Project.  Kelly earned her B.S in Business Administration, Marketing with a minor in Studio Art and is pursuing her M.A in Art Administration at Baruch College. Previously, she was the Nagelberg Fellow at Mishkin Gallery. Now, Kelly is the Grants and Development Fellow at Center for Book Arts and the incoming Rockefeller Fellow at MoMA.

Image by Jenna Bascom