IA Hubbub is a podcast series on art, ecology, and public scholarship which spotlights projects from across the IA network that bring together faculty, students, and knowledge keepers from the community for collaborative learning. Listen and subscribe to full episodes of the podcast on: iTunes ,Podbean, Spotify, and other major platforms.
June 16, 2025
In this episode of our podcast series, we travel to IA Member institutions: Michigan State University – where the HIVES Research Lab is located, and University of Southern California – where the Fifty One Miles project is housed. These projects exemplify IA’s focus on arts-oriented community-engaged scholarship that cuts across institutional hierarchies, and expands our understanding of the interconnectedness and interdependence that drives our multispecies worlds.
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.
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.