April 16, 2026 | PAGE Blog Salon
Chimee Adịọha. In the summer of 2023, I have just moved from Texas, still with all the boxes I arrived from Nigeria with, and then in my new apartment in Southern California, I started creating Diaspora Africa with my friend in London.
April 10, 2026 | PAGE Blog Salon
Ashley Martin-Casler. Though music is often a part of our daily lives, its potential as a vehicle for healing is less present as we go about our everyday routines. In our public consciousness, do we recognize music as a channel for emotional modulation, which can impact our sense of wellbeing?
April 10, 2026 | PAGE Blog Salon
Leah Friedman. For the last decade, I have been working as a professional dance artist. I have danced and toured with several contemporary dance companies in Philadelphia, PA and Phoenix, AZ, have taught countless modern dance classes, facilitated movement improvisation sessions, and created my own digital and live dance performances.
April 10, 2026 | PAGE Blog Salon
Asia N. Ashley. In a moment when books are being legislated out of classrooms, and the stories that reflect our lives are being pulled from shelves, gathering around a text becomes an act of resistance and of care. Read the Room offers a space for people who crave connecting outside of high-social, work, or academic environments.
April 10, 2026 | PAGE Blog Salon
Shromona Mandal. My dissertation research asks how Hindu Nationalism foments in the wealthy racially segregated suburbs and ethnoburbs of Metro Atlanta and my ethnographic method of “studying up” requires me to straddle the simultaneity of power and marginalization that my interlocutors navigate.
February 10, 2026 | Blog
Weaving together lessons from Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sekou Sundiata’s The America Project, The IA Clearing was a special track at the 2025 IA National Gathering, activated through a series of spaces, activities, and listening resources. In this post, we invite you to listen to responses from participants and add your own.
February 3, 2026 | News & Press
The 2026 invitation for IA Collaboratories welcomes proposals from IA member campuses to form communities around practices of imagination. This year we are prioritizing proposals from regional clusters of campuses and partners with an intentional effort to support and activate regional engagement in the IA network. Proposals are due March 13.
January 30, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025
For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this second episode of the season, longtime collaborators Chaz Barracks and Sylvia Gale talk about black joy and play, creative administration, and surviving the academy.
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.
