PAGE Blog Salon

Imagining America welcomes a new cohort of Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows, who will be introducing themselves through Blog Salon stories. These fellows were selected for their sustained commitment to public engagement, and their unique approaches to engaged scholarship.

  • Banner style layout showing a shallow tide pooling over rocks, underwater details visible beneath the surface. The word PORTA(L)AGE appears in bold yellow, merging ideas of ‘portal’ and ‘portage’ within the tidal scene.

    —-\\\\\|||||||//////— PORTA(L)GE  ~~~~~(((((((((<<<>>>>((((((((

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Catheryne Geneviève Hicks. it is evident that we live in a world marked by growing catastrophe and suffering. we endure globally sanctioned state…

  • Historicizing Ballroom Culture

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Victor Ultra Omni. A co-interview between Ololade Faniyi and Victor Omni on time and the digital in relation to the archive: For too…

  • The Untold Stories of Invisible Immigrant Chinese Workers on the Transcontinental Railroad

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Haoqing Yu. I studied Communication, Art (with a concentration in Painting and Drawing), and Art History during my Undergraduate studies at the University…

  • The Power of Virtual Reality and Personalized Music on Dementia

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Gabby Wen. The collage below showcases my journey as a PhD candidate in the Applied Intercultural Arts Research program at the University of…

  • A digital illustration of an African woman, Ololade Faniyi, against a bright yellow background. It is a medium shot, and the woman is presented shoulder up. She has short hair in dreds that falls to her shoulders, her face is rounded, and she is wearing a gold neckalce and earrings. She is looking directly at the viewer.

    African Feminist Digital Encounters: Freedom Dreaming in the Digital Age

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Ololade Faniyi. A co-interview between Ololade Faniyi and Victor Omni on time and the digital in relation to the archive: What is the…

  • A slide with a tan background. In the upper left corner, green title text says, "Cultivating Raices Chicago Story Coalition". There are orange flowers on the background too. A white textbox, with a graphic of a piece of tape at the top, has text, "In January of 2024, three accomplices and I established Raices Chicago Story Coalition, a capacity building organization that focuses on the cultivation and telling of Chicago Latine stories. Though ready to do the work, we understood that we needed to reconfigure the archive. After all, colonial systems were not created to benefit colonized peoples and so we asked ourselves a simple question: How do you document the under and un-documented?". On the right side of the page are three photos. Two of people sitting around tables with balloons. One with speakers sitting a t a table.

    Cultivating Roots Documenting the Underdocumented

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Liliana Macias.   Cultivating Roots: Documenting the Underdocumented is a digital storytelling collage that  utilizes sound and images to explore the praxis of…

  • Long shot view of a river. In the background left is a forested bank. In the foreground right are the tops of trees, including a coconut palm.

    The Melody of Cửu Long

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Huy Phan. Bến Tre province, Vietnam A rare breeze brushes through the coconut fronds amidst the roiling heat. One is suddenly pulled back…

  • 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…

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Imagining America

Publications

Programs

Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.