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  • Enacting Radical Imagination in Higher Education: A 2025 Collaboratory Report

    By Imagining America

    August 7, 2026

    By: Kendall Bryant and Ijeoma Njaka, Red House, Georgetown UniversityPhotos: Logan Wang, Red House, Georgetown University Introduction Critical Speculative Design for Anti-Racism in…

  • Creating Refuge Collaboratory

    By Imagining America

    August 4, 2026

    Following the 2024 election, the Creating Refuge Collaboratory (featuring participants from Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, and Macalester Colleges) emerged as a collective effort to explore the ways in which civic and community engagement centers could facilitate intersectional spaces of community care, resiliency, and creative resistance for students and communities. Learn more in this blog post.

  • 2025-2026 IA Annual Report

    By Imagining America

    July 15, 2026

    We are pleased to share the Imagining America Annual Report for the 2025-2026 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.

  • Photo of around twenty people sitting in a large circle. One woman is standing by a poster with post-its on it. Behind them a slide is projected that reads, "BIG QUESTIONS", with three questions written out below, and a photo of a mural on the right. Teal text in the top right of the image reads, "Read the B-More with Imagination BLOG POST".

    B-More With Imagination: 2025 IA Collaboratory Blog Post

    By Imagining America

    July 7, 2026

    Baltimore was the site of Imagining America’s 15th National Gathering, which centered on the theme “America Will Be! The Art and Power of ‘Weaving Our We.’” A decade later, three of the institutions that hosted the Gathering – Towson University, UMBC, and MICA – responded to IA’s call to form a new Collaboratory. Learn more about their activities in this blog post.

  • On a tan background, there is a large green and magenta cactus on the left side. Three paper airplanes fly across the banner. In the center, magenta text reads, "THE IA CLEARING TOOLKIT".

    The IA Clearing Toolkit

    By Imagining America

    June 17, 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 IA National Gathering, activated through a series of spaces, activities, and ‘magical questions’. In this toolkit, we invite you to tailor and adapt the following IA Clearing Resources for your own communities.

  • 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 IA National Gathering, activated through a series of spaces, activities, and listening resources. In this post, we invite you to listen to responses from participants and add your own.

  • 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.

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