May 1, 2025 | News & Press
Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2025-2026 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on June 30 2025 (extended deadline), and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2025.
April 30, 2025 | News & Press
The Call for Participation to the 2025 IA National Gathering Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want is now open! Read the full call to learn more about proposal formats and submission instructions. Submissions are due June 30, 2025.
April 26, 2025 | Events
WEDS, JUNE 4; ONLINE, VIA ZOOM. We invite all Imagining America members and friends to come together in an open forum facilitated by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas and and invited guests from the IA network to gather information, provide peer support, and facilitate connection in these times.
April 17, 2025 | Events
WEDS, MAY 28, 10AM PT / 11AM MT / 12PM CT / 1PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. Imagining America is pleased to announce that the Call for Participation (CFP) is now open for the 2025 IA National Gathering. In this virtual information session, IA staff will review the submission process and answer any questions you may have.
April 16, 2025 | IA Hubbub
The second episode of the IA Hubbub features interviews with Wintun/Maidu cultural practitioner, naturalist, artist, and story-teller Diana Almendariz, and with UC Davis entomologist Geoffrey Attardo. The episode takes us on a wide-ranging journey through Diana’s visual art practice, her collaboration with Geoffrey around wetland restoration, and how her image-making practice is informed by her work as a naturalist.
April 14, 2025 | Events
WEDS JUNE 4; CAROLEE SHIELDS WHITE FLOWER GARDEN AND GAZEBO, UCD ARBORETUM. We invite UC Davis students, staff, faculty, and Davis community members to join us in an event practicing gratitude for the Earth, organized by Isabelle Woodruff-Madeira, American Studies Major and Imagining America Intern.
April 14, 2025 | Member Stories
In this month’s member spotlight, we report back from Emerson College’s Amplify & Ignite Symposium, which hosted three days of workshops, panel discussions, presentations, working groups, and dialogue about our questions, curiosities, and work at the intersection of performance, community building, education and justice.
March 20, 2025 | IA Hubbub
The first episode of the IA Hubbub (a new podcast series on art, ecology, and public scholarship) looks at the Tending and Gathering Garden, an eco-cultural site in the Yolo Bioregion which is at the forefront of hands-on, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational learning that weaves together native and non-native communities, and university and community contexts. Explore the series on our website, and listen/subscribe to episodes on Podbean and iTunes.
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.
