This year we invite you to find grounding and inspiration from the following “magical questions” (Priya Parker, 2020) as you engage in community, creativity, and collage-making:
• What carries you?
• What is your place of peace? How do you get there?
• What practices help you imagine?

Alone, we do not know the answers to these questions. Together, we have many answers. So we encourage you to gather with your people, roll up your sleeves, and consider one of our magical questions that open up conversation, make space for tension and grappling, and engage in ways that move us beyond habitual ways of thinking. 

These magical questions were the centerpiece of The IA Clearing, a series of interactive activities, reflective spaces, and screenings that were woven through the 2025 IA National Gathering. They remind us that we are already making the world that we are standing for. We all have the tools. We’ve known how to do this since we were kids. So we call on you to share a glimpse into what you are imagining and practicing.

Art kits will be mailed in late February 2026 (after registration closes), so please keep an eye out for those. We invite you to use whatever materials you prefer, in addition to the art supplies and materials included in the kit, to create artwork inspired by the theme and prompt above. Each kit will include paper airplanes with the magical questions on them. You can use them in your artwork in any way that you choose, as the canvas for your Mail Art, as an element of your canvas, or otherwise.