January 8, 2026 | Events
2026 Imagining America Gathering Kick-off Event
When: February 4, 4-6pm PSTWhere: International House Davis (10 College Park, Davis, CA 95616) Join us to kick off the 2026 Imagining America…
January 5, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025
IA Storyshare, Episode 13: Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this first episode of the season, longtime IA participants Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth take us down memory lane, and share their insights about the transforming ecology of publicly engaged scholarship.
December 16, 2025 | Events
Pedagogies of Possibility: Dominate, undermine, dismiss
WHEN: Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT / 4:30PM PTWHERE: Zoom Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP), an IA…
December 16, 2025 | Events
Meet IA: January 2026 Session
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 11AM PT / 12NOON MT / 1PM CT / 2PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. Meet IA sessions are open to everyone and designed to help orient prospective, new, or current members to the IA network.
December 9, 2025 | Member Stories
Community-Engaged Practice at James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU) has a long-standing commitment to community-engaged practice, and fosters opportunities for community and university collaborative engagement. In this month’s member spotlight, we learn about a few initiatives at JMU that advance these goals: the IA Open Forums, the JMU Arts Mobile, and the Community Engagement and Volunteer Center.
December 3, 2025 | News & Press
IA Announces 2025 Awardees: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and David Hoffman
Imagining America is pleased to announce that David Hoffman is the recipient of the 2025 Randy Martin Spirit Award, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Julie Ellison Vision Award. Please join us in celebrating the work and spirit of these dedicated community-engaged scholars, artists, organizers.
December 3, 2025 | News & Press
IA Unveils 2025 Mail Art Project: Textures of Ecology
IA is pleased to share the artistic contributions created by participants from IA member institutions for the 2025 Mail Art Project (MAP). Inspired by the IA happening Textures of Ecology, this iteration of the participatory art project invited participants to draw grounding and inspiration from the natural world in their creative art-making practices.
November 10, 2025 | News & Press
The 2025 IA National Gathering in Review
In partnership with New Mexico State University and a local Steering Committee, Imagining America created a joyful and restorative IA National Gathering in Las Cruces, New Mexico. From October 3-5, 2025, over 450 registered attendees participated in activities on the theme of Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want. In the following post, we share back highlights from the gathering through image, video, and text.
