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  • Creating Refuge Collaboratory

    By Imagining America

    August 4, 2026

    Following the 2024 election, the Creating Refuge Collaboratory (featuring participants from Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Macalester Colleges) emerged as a collective effort to explore the ways in which civic and community engagement centers could facilitate intersectional spaces of community care, resiliency, and creative resistance for students and communities. Learn more in this blog post.

  • EP 1: A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHANIE MARONEY AND ERICA KOHL-ARENAS

    By Imagining America

    August 4, 2026

    In the first episode of Gathering Whispers for this season, we talk to IA Managing Director, Stephanie Maroney and IA Faculty Director Erica Kohl-Arenas, who give us a sneak-peek at what we can expect to experience and learn at the 2026 IA National Gathering.

  • On a dark blue background, is a graphic of yellow, blue, and white hands. They each have an eye and beak on the thumb, like hand-turkeys. There is also a graphic of an iphone with plants sprouting out of it, overlaying the hands. Text in yellow on the right reads, "Digital Divestment Roundtable", and in red below it, "Gen AI in the Classroom: Tips for Engaging Students in AI Classroom Policy". In the top right corner is the Imagining America logo. In the bottom right corner is small yellow text that reads, "Art by Dheeraj Nanduri for ArtistsForClimate.org Art by Shadowchaser for Fine Acts".

    Gen AI in the Classroom: Tips for Engaging Students in AI Classroom Policy

    By Imagining America

    July 28, 2026

    AUGUST 13, 10am PST, ON ZOOM. In this back-to-school edition of the Digital Divestment Roundtable, Marguerite Mayhall (Art History, Kean University) and Ashwin Vaidya (Math/Physics, Montclair State University, IA Member Institution), will introduce us to their pedagogical practice of engaging students in a conversation around AI in the classroom through the lens of informed consent.

  • 2025-2026 IA Annual Report

    By Imagining America

    July 15, 2026

    We are pleased to share the Imagining America Annual Report for the 2025-2026 membership year. It has been a joy to build new and meaningful relationships with so many people, organizations, and places across the national network and we hope that you enjoy reading on for all that we have learned and accomplished in the past year.

  • 2026 Mail Art Project Unveiled

    By Imagining America

    July 13, 2026

    IA is pleased to share the artistic contributions created by participants from IA member institutions for the 2026 Mail Art Project (MAP). The 2026 Mail Art Project takes inspiration from the 2025 IA National Gathering – Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want, which invited us to consider how to provide passage for one another and all beings towards a more just, liberatory, and caring future.

  • Photo of around twenty people sitting in a large circle. One woman is standing by a poster with post-its on it. Behind them a slide is projected that reads, "BIG QUESTIONS", with three questions written out below, and a photo of a mural on the right. Teal text in the top right of the image reads, "Read the B-More with Imagination BLOG POST".

    B-More With Imagination: 2025 IA Collaboratory Blog Post

    By Imagining America

    July 7, 2026

    Baltimore was the site of Imagining America’s 15th National Gathering, which centered on the theme “America Will Be! The Art and Power of ‘Weaving Our We.’” A decade later, three of the institutions that hosted the Gathering – Towson University, UMBC, and MICA – responded to IA’s call to form a new Collaboratory. Learn more about their activities in this blog post.

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