December 3, 2025 | News & Press
Imagining America is pleased to announce that David Hoffman is the recipient of the 2025 Randy Martin Spirit Award, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Julie Ellison Vision Award. Please join us in celebrating the work and spirit of these dedicated community-engaged scholars, artists, organizers.
December 3, 2025 | News & Press
IA is pleased to share the artistic contributions created by participants from IA member institutions for the 2025 Mail Art Project (MAP). Inspired by the IA happening Textures of Ecology, this iteration of the participatory art project invited participants to draw grounding and inspiration from the natural world in their creative art-making practices.
November 10, 2025 | News & Press
In partnership with New Mexico State University and a local Steering Committee, Imagining America created a joyful and restorative IA National Gathering in Las Cruces, New Mexico. From October 3-5, 2025, over 450 registered attendees participated in activities on the theme of Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want. In the following post, we share back highlights from the gathering through image, video, and text.
November 5, 2025 | Member Stories
At Southwestern University (SU), community engagement and publicly engaged humanities are not separate initiatives; they are interwoven threads in a broader tapestry of regional care, social justice, and liberal arts education. As a private, Hispanic Serving Institution with Methodist roots and a deep commitment to its core values of encouraging activism in the pursuit of justice and diverse perspectives, SU is reimagining its role in Central Texas through collaborative, justice-oriented scholarship.
October 28, 2025 | Events / News & Press
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 12 NOON PT / 1PM MT / 2PM CT / 3PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. In this presentation of the IA Collaboratory project ‘Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series,’ Paisley Rekdal (University of Utah) and Hannah Moushabeck (Interlink Publishing) share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia.
October 28, 2025 | Events
WHEN: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 7:30PM ET / 6:30PM CT / 5:30PM MT / 4:30PM PT; WHERE: Zoom. Pedagogies of Possibility (PoP), an IA Collaboratory, is thrilled to welcome Alix Gerber, Assistant Director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, as the first PoP Collaboratory Facilitator.
October 14, 2025 | News & Press
Imagining America (IA) is proud to announce the cohort of 2025-2026 PAGE Fellows. PAGE is IA’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.
October 14, 2025 | News & Press
Imagining America is proud to announce the cohort of 2025-2026 IA/JGS Fellows. These eight undergraduate students from IA Member campuses were selected for their creative use of art to uplift diverse stories, create connection, and build community.
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.
