The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues. By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
Reflecting on the importance of transitions – from political crises to global climate change, and personal identity to organizational transformation – the 2026 IA National Gathering invites participants to share stories, research, creative works, and community practices exploring the complex process of transitioning away from systems of fear and domination and towards restoring collective spirit.
Featured Image: Angelica Sauceda, Taller Arte Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) Archive
In this month’s member spotlight, we showcase two multi-disciplinary projects at Pennsylvania State University that explore material collaborations with the natural world through land-based projects that center artistic practice. Both projects are connected to the Center for Virtual/Material Studies (CV/MS), a research center headquartered in the Department of Art History at Penn State.
Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2026-2027 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on June 30, 2026 (extended deadline), and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2026.
WEDS, MAY 27, 12noon PST, ON ZOOM. Learn more about submitting a proposal to the 2026 IA National Gathering by attending this virtual information session.
Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.
+ Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers
Annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers addressing today’s pressing issues.
IA has begun the search for a new campus home. Hosting IA is an exciting opportunity to become a national hub for public scholarship, and for activating the mission, vision, and values of IA.
IA fosters vibrant networks of graduate and undergraduate students from our member institutions.
IA’s research initiatives and learning opportunities leverage the intellectual and creative capital that is the consortium’s greatest strength.
We envision a world of expansive social imagination, constructed by multiple ways of knowing, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities.
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
By dreaming and building together in public, IA creates the conditions to shift culture and transform inequitable institutional and societal structures.
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Email Address:
connect@imaginingamerica.org
Physical Address:
207 3rd Street, Suite 120
Davis, CA 95616
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.
