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  • On a light tan background is a painted graphic of the earth and red text over it that reads, "Happening Reflection". To the left of this is a document title page that is a darker tan and has the same earth being held by sketched hands on the right side. Above the earth, handwritten text reads, "take care". Below the graphic is a credit line: "This image is used under the Creative Commons 4.0 License; Karla Čurčinski for ArtistsForClimate.org". In the upper left corner of the page is the Imagining America logo in blue. Below that title text reads, "Event Toolkit: Practices in Gratitude for the Earth". In the bottom left corner of the page, text reads, "created by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira". Below the document page, the same credit line is in red.

    Happening Reflection: Practices in Gratitude for the Earth

    By Imagining America

    July 10, 2025

    On June 4th 2025, Imagining America (IA) held a happening encouraging gratitude for all that the Earth provides for us, and deep thinking on our relationships with and responsibilities to the land. In the following post, IA Intern Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira shares her reflections from this happening, and offers a toolkit so others can organize their own event.

  • Reflections: Story Circles for Community Connection in Yolo

    By Imagining America

    March 8, 2025

    On March 18, 2025, Imagining America hosted a Story Circle in collaboration with our partners at the International House Davis. The result was an empowering hour and a half session, where deep listening and compassion were on display. In this blog post, we offer resources for IA members to hold their own Story Circles to unleash the power of everyday storytelling.

  • Imagining America’s Engaged Art Summit Sparks Connections and Creativity

    By Imagining America

    December 3, 2024

    Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life hosted 20 national student fellows from 17 IA member campuses in Davis, CA for an…

  • Democratically Engaged Assessment: Reimagining the Purposes and Practices of Assessment in Community Engagement

    By Imagining America

    November 13, 2024

    The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).

  • IA Book Club – Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

    By Imagining America

    September 23, 2024

    Tuesday, December 3, 2024: Imagining America invites participants across the network to join IA staff in reading Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal…

  • Reflections from Happening: IA Primary Day

    By Imagining America

    July 24, 2024

    Inspired and organized by IA Student Intern Rosalie Mendoza, IA Primary Day brought together students, scholars, parents, kids, teachers, and others in a…

  • Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi

    By Imagining America

    July 11, 2024

    by Carlton Turner, Mina Para Matlon, Erica Kohl-Arenas, and Jean Greene “…Our work is comprehensive community cultural transformation. That is, the social and…

  • Call for the Next IA Campus Host

    By Imagining America

    June 17, 2024

    We are excited to announce the opportunity to become the next host of Imagining America in 2027. Following founding years at the University…

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