August 5, 2025 | Gathering Whispers

EP 2: A Conversation with IA Managing Director, Stephanie Maroney

In the second episode of Gathering Whispers, we talk to IA Managing Director, Stephanie Maroney, who talks to us about the relationships at NMSU that brought the 2025 IA National Gathering to Las Cruces, the rich history of community-engaged work in the Paso del Norte region, and the exciting projects and programs we can expect to encounter at this year’s 25th Anniversary National Gathering.

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July 14, 2025 | Member Stories

Spotlight on Healing and Refuge at Bates College

In this month’s spotlight, we turn to two projects at IA Member institution Bates College: one that focuses on Creating Refuge and the other, Ka Bogso: Be Healed, that celebrates healing and growth as a shared journey rooted in community. Both projects showcase the importance and the impact of community-engaged research and collaboration across institutions.

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Eight copies of an Imagining America poster in different colors are lined up in a rectangle of two rows of 4 posters. Each poster has a big Imagining America logo on the left side of the poster. Left-aligned text on the right side of the logo takes up the same amount of space as the logo and reads, "Creative Culture is an important site of". And big text on the bottom quarter of the poster reads, "LIBERATION". Each poster is black and another color, with black being the background on the top half of the poster (splitting the logo), and the text and logo in the second color, and inverted on the bottom half of the poster with the logo and text in black and the background in the second color. The top row of posters from left to right are tan, light green, tan, and light green. And the bottom row of posters from left to right are red, yellow, red, and yellow.

July 13, 2025 | Blog

2024-2025 IA Annual Report

We are pleased to share the Imagining America Annual Report for the 2024-2025 membership year. It has been a joy to build new and meaningful relationships with so many people, organizations, and places across the national network and we hope that you enjoy reading on for all that we have learned and accomplished in the past year.

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On a light tan background is a painted graphic of the earth and red text over it that reads, "Happening Reflection". To the left of this is a document title page that is a darker tan and has the same earth being held by sketched hands on the right side. Above the earth, handwritten text reads, "take care". Below the graphic is a credit line: "This image is used under the Creative Commons 4.0 License; Karla Čurčinski for ArtistsForClimate.org". In the upper left corner of the page is the Imagining America logo in blue. Below that title text reads, "Event Toolkit: Practices in Gratitude for the Earth". In the bottom left corner of the page, text reads, "created by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira". Below the document page, the same credit line is in red.

July 10, 2025 | Blog

Happening Reflection: Practices in Gratitude for the Earth

On June 4th 2025, Imagining America (IA) held a happening encouraging gratitude for all that the Earth provides for us, and deep thinking on our relationships with and responsibilities to the land. In the following post, IA Intern Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira shares her reflections from this happening, and offers a toolkit so others can organize their own event.

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On a black background, left of center is a logo made of white hexagons and white text that says "HIVES". Right of center is a birds-eye view photograph of a river shoreline. The photo is cropped in a circle. There is white dotted line running through it and white text on top that reads, "fifty-one miles".

May 16, 2025 | IA Hubbub / Member Stories

IA HUBBUB, EP 3: Interdependence

In this episode of our podcast series, we travel to IA Member institutions: Michigan State University – where the HIVES Research Lab is located, and University of Southern California – where the Fifty One Miles project is housed. These projects exemplify IA’s focus on arts-oriented community-engaged scholarship that cuts across institutional hierarchies, and expands our understanding of the interconnectedness and interdependence that drives our multispecies worlds.

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