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.

The invitation encouraged participants to find grounding and inspiration from the following “magical questions” (Priya Parker, 2020) as they engaged 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?

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. In this iteration of the Mail Art Project, we called on participants to share a glimpse into what they are imagining and practicing.

Explore responses from the IA member community below.