May 18, 2026 | Events
2026 IA National Gathering CFP Virtual Info Session
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.
April 29, 2026 | News & Press / Publications
Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers
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.
April 28, 2026 | News & Press
IA Announces 2026 Regional Collaboratories
Imagining America is proud to announce the 2026 cohort for the IA Regional Collaboratories. IA staff reviewed many excellent submissions and we thank all who shared their visions as part of the call for proposals. We selected eight projects that examine how the work of imagining and practices of imagination are critical to organizing personal, institutional, and societal transformation.
April 28, 2026 | Events
Digital Divestment Roundtable: Re-orienting to Community Tech
The session is open to the entire IA community, and will be hosted by PAGE Fellow Leah Friedman, and IA Communications Director Anuj Vaidya. We invite you to come with your own questions, suggestions for actions, tools, and resources, so that we may establish a community of practice specifically within the IA community, to collectively transition to technologies and platforms that hold privacy, security, and community connection at their core.
April 28, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025
IA StoryShare, Episode 15: Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this third episode of the season, theater practitioners/educators Lizzy Cooper Davis and Ural Grant talk about inter-disciplinary practice, working across silos, what sustains them in this work.
April 24, 2026 | Events
Meet IA: May 2026 Session
When: Thursday May 21, 10am PT / 11am MT / 12noon CT / 1pm ETWhere: Virtual, on zoom Join Imagining America for this…
April 10, 2026 | Member Stories
Material Collaborations at Penn State University
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.
March 29, 2026 | Events
Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 2
This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees. This month’s event features speakers Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.
