An Imagining America Happening | Artmaking Inspired by Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change

Friday, February 9, 2024 — 4:30-7:00pm 

207 3^rd Street, Suite 120, Davis CA 

Imagining America welcomes you to participate in an artmaking project on the theme of the 2023 IA National Gathering. Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change conjures the elements to guide the radical work of reckoning with the past to create a future of collective liberation.

As part of the downtown Davis ArtAbout, we will provide artmaking materials, a prompt with visuals from the IA National Gathering, as well as snacks and refreshments. Please join us anytime between 4:30 – 7:00pm to enjoy good company and creativity. 

About the Theme: Radical Reckoning

Reckoning is the practice of taking full account. It requires digging down to the roots—to be radical. While radical reckoning may unearth uncomfortable truths, past harms, and the origins of ongoing injustices, it also reveals the foundations of enduring cultural heritage, creative ecological adaptation, and the sources of physical and spiritual sustenance. The theme invokes the elements of fire, water, earth, and air to inspire collaboration, offer new lessons and approaches, and demonstrate how the process of reckoning is both reflective and active. 

About Imagining America

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.