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November 18, 2024 | News & Press

2025 IA Collaboratories: Submit Your Proposal

Call for Proposals Imagining America (IA): Artists and Scholars in Public Life invites IA members to submit proposals to form new Collaboratories starting…

November 13, 2024 | Action Research / Blog / Publications / Research Reports

Democratically Engaged Assessment: Reimagining the Purposes and Practices of Assessment in Community Engagement

The 2018 white paper by the APPS Research Group offers in-depth exploration of the framework, thinking, and “found pilots” to support the model of Democratically Engaqed Assessment (DEA).

November 13, 2024 | News & Press

IA Unveils 2023-24 Mail Art Project Gallery

The 2023-24 Mail Art Project was inspired by the 2023 IA National Gathering theme: Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change. The project was open to all IA members – faculty, staff, and students. Participation was free, and participants were mailed a small kit with instructions, a prompt, and a few art supplies and materials to get started.

November 13, 2024 | News & Press

A Toolkit to Help Organize Your People, Projects, and Partners

We are excited to announce a new resource available to IA members! This toolkit was developed by IA staff using many of the ideas that members have implemented to energize their campus, engage their IA member benefits, and uplift public scholarship.

October 22, 2024 | Member Stories

Spotlight on Emory University’s Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues and Public Scholarship

This month, we shine a spotlight on the many ways in which faculty and students at Emory University are leveraging the power of public scholarship to foster conversations across and between departments and disciplines through story circles, sidecar courses, and IA engagement tools.

October 20, 2024 | Events

Textures of Ecology, an Imagining America Happening

Join us for an afternoon of crafting with natural materials When: Wednesday November 13, 3:00-4:30pm PSTWhere: Wyatt Deck, UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden This…

September 24, 2024 | Member Stories

FHSU Spotlights Prof. Amy Schmierbach’s FACT Workshops

In this month’s IA Member Spotlight, we bring lessons at the intersection of arts and disability justice from Art Professor Amy Schmierbach’s First Responder, Art Collaboration, Training (FACT) workshops, which are offered in conjunction with her ART 308: Community Engaged Art class at Fort Hays State University.