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  • MAGICAL QUESTIONS: RESPONSES FROM THE 2025 IA NATIONAL GATHERING, Part 2

    By Imagining America

    February 10, 2026

    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…

  • THE IA CLEARING: RESPONSES FROM THE 2025 IA NATIONAL GATHERING, Part 1

    By Imagining America

    January 12, 2026

    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…

  • 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.

    2024-2025 IA Annual Report

    By Imagining America

    July 13, 2025

    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.

  • 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.

    Happening Reflection: Practices in Gratitude for the Earth

    By Imagining America

    July 10, 2025

    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.

  • Reflections: Story Circles for Community Connection in Yolo

    By Imagining America

    March 8, 2025

    On March 18, 2025, Imagining America hosted a Story Circle in collaboration with our partners at the International House Davis. The result was an empowering hour and a half session, where deep listening and compassion were on display. In this blog post, we offer resources for IA members to hold their own Story Circles to unleash the power of everyday storytelling.

  • 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…

  • 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).

  • IA Book Club – Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

    By Imagining America

    September 23, 2024

    Tuesday, December 3, 2024: Imagining America invites participants across the network to join IA staff in reading Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal…

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