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  • IA announces six new Collaboratories launching in 2025

    By Imagining America

    January 21, 2025

    Imagining America is proud to announce six new Collaboratories launching in 2025. These compelling proposals responded to the first invitation for IA Collaboratories...

  • Spotlight on Michigan State University’s Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

    By Imagining America

    January 21, 2025

    In this month's member spotlight, we take a look back at Michigan State University's three year project at the intersections of public art and public health. The project documented how everyday people used creativity to cope with the pandemic by crowdsourcing contributions, undertaking public humanities collaborations, and highlighting art as a tool for combating inequity and injustice. 

  • Imagining America’s Engaged Art Summit Sparks Connections and Creativity

    By Imagining America

    December 3, 2024

    Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life hosted 20 national student fellows from 17 IA member campuses in Davis, CA for an...

  • Supporting Public Humanities at the Critical Intersections: An Imagining America Manifesto

    By Imagining America

    November 26, 2024

    We are excited to share a recent publication by IA Faculty Director, Erica Kohl-Arenas, from the recently launched journal, Public Humanities. In this research paper and manifesto, Kohl-Arenas proposes five critical ways in which institutions of higher education can better support public humanities.

  • 2025 IA Collaboratories: Submit Your Proposal

    By Imagining America

    November 18, 2024

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

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

    By Imagining America

    November 13, 2024

    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).