On a black background, left of center is a logo made of white hexagons and white text that says "HIVES". Right of center is a birds-eye view photograph of a river shoreline. The photo is cropped in a circle. There is white dotted line running through it and white text on top that reads, "fifty-one miles".

May 16, 2025 | IA Hubbub / Member Stories

IA HUBBUB, EP 3: Interdependence

In this episode of our podcast series, we travel to IA Member institutions: Michigan State University – where the HIVES Research Lab is located, and University of Southern California – where the Fifty One Miles project is housed. These projects exemplify IA’s focus on arts-oriented community-engaged scholarship that cuts across institutional hierarchies, and expands our understanding of the interconnectedness and interdependence that drives our multispecies worlds.

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April 26, 2025 | Events

Building Communities of Care

WEDS, JUNE 4; ONLINE, VIA ZOOM. We invite all Imagining America members and friends to come together in an open forum facilitated by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas and and invited guests from the IA network to gather information, provide peer support, and facilitate connection in these times.

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April 16, 2025 | IA Hubbub

IA Hubbub, Ep 2: Abundance

The second episode of the IA Hubbub features interviews with Wintun/Maidu cultural practitioner, naturalist, artist, and story-teller Diana Almendariz, and with UC Davis entomologist Geoffrey Attardo. The episode takes us on a wide-ranging journey through Diana’s visual art practice, her collaboration with Geoffrey around wetland restoration, and how her image-making practice is informed by her work as a naturalist.

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On a light green background with a faded image of a painted earth, big red text on the earth reads, "Practices in Gratitude for the Earth". To the left of the text is a graphic on a rectangular tan background. The same painted Earth is being held by sketched hands, and handwritten text above it reads, "take care". In the bottom right corner of the banner is the Imagining America logo and a credit line: "This image is used under the Creative Commons 4.0 License; Karla Čurčinski for ArtistsForClimate.org"

April 14, 2025 | Events

Practices in Gratitude for the Earth

WEDS JUNE 4; CAROLEE SHIELDS WHITE FLOWER GARDEN AND GAZEBO, UCD ARBORETUM. We invite UC Davis students, staff, faculty, and Davis community members to join us in an event practicing gratitude for the Earth, organized by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira, American Studies Major and Imagining America Intern.

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April 14, 2025 | Member Stories

Spotlight on Emerson College’s Amplify & Ignite Symposium

In this month’s member spotlight, we report back from Emerson College’s Amplify & Ignite Symposium, which hosted three days of workshops, panel discussions, presentations, working groups, and dialogue about our questions, curiosities, and work at the intersection of performance, community building, education and justice.

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