• IA Hubbub, Ep 2: Abundance

    By Imagining America

    April 16, 2025

    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.

  • IA Hubbub, Ep 1: Cultural Fire

    By Imagining America

    March 20, 2025

    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.