Participants currently registered for the 2026 IA National Gathering are eligible to sign up to attend a community-hosted site visit (on Saturday October 24, 3:15-5:30pm) when the separate sign up process opens on Monday October 5th at 9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET.
Site visits are only open to registered gathering participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Register here for the gathering if you haven’t yet!
Site visits are an important and unique component of the IA National Gathering because they provide an opportunity for community organizations to host smaller groups of gathering participants from across the country in their own spaces. Community organizations lead activities that are mutually beneficial and reflect local aspects of the gathering theme, Tides of Transition: Restoring Collective Spirit in Troubled Times.
Click the ‘Read more’ links below to learn about each site visit, including notes for participants from the organizers:
- Climate Action: A Risograph Poster Making Workshop
In this hands-on poster making workshop participants will learn about Risograph poster making techniques, be exposed to a variety of climate communication material, and have a chance to make a poster in an edition large enough to be shared with all workshop participants. Read more.
- Art in the Garden: Place-based Third Spaces and Community Creativity
This site visit will be co-hosted by the Third Space Art Collective and the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden and coincide with Art in the Garden, a collaborative, free, public art-making event put on by both organizations. Read more.
- It Begins With a Seed: the UC Davis Student Farm
This site visit is an invitation to the Student Farm, an almost 50 year old space started by students who dreamt big and refused to accept existing paradigms of harm by sustaining visions of different, more welcoming futures. Read more.
- International House Davis: What does culture mean?
Join us on a site visit to International House Davis to explore and celebrate what culture means to us. I-House is a vibrant Davis hub for international culture and community that cultivates learning and connection through sharing and supporting the contributions of local artists and cultural practitioners. Read more.
- 66 Years in the Making: Davis Arts Center’s Enduring Canvas of Community, Creativity, and Change
During this site visit, participants will tour the Davis Arts Center’s seven art studio spaces, discovering how community programming is woven into every corner of the space and engage with a public exhibition on wetland stewardship, showcasing the eco-cultural and artistic practice of Wintun/Maidu culture-bearer Diana Almendariz and YoloSol Collective. Read more.
- Past into Practice: Finding Creative Inspiration in Museums and Archives
Presented by the Yolo County Historical Collection, Yolo County Archives, and YoloArts, this workshop focuses on how artists, scholars, and other creators can use archives and museum collections to inspire works of art and other projects that reimagine, interpret, or facilitate discussion about complicated local histories. Read more.
- TANA Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer
Participants will visit Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA), a community-based art center and screen-printing studio in Woodland, California. Our staff team will welcome participants, introduce the organization and its community-based arts programming, and provide an overview of screen printing and the workshop activities. Read more.
- Tule Traditions and Wetland Art
Hosted by the Yolo Basin Foundation, this site visit invites participants to learn about the ecology, cultural history, significance, and Indigenous stewardship of the Yolo Basin with hands-on tule making activities and a mural tour. Read more.
Transportation Details
Site visits 1 & 2 will be accessed by walking with a guide from the UCD Conference Center to the host spaces (less than 1 mile, approximately 15 minutes). Transportation for site visits 3-8 is provided via shuttle from the UCD Conference Center to the host spaces. Gathering participants will depart from the UC Davis campus between 2:45-3:00pm, and depart the community spaces at 5:30pm to return to the UC Davis Conference Center.
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.
