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.

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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.

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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.

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March 28, 2026 | Events

Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 1

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 Romi Ron Morrison, an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator at UCLA Design Media Arts, and Sarah Biscarra Dilley, a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

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