Member Stories
IA Member campuses are carrying out creative, community-led projects across the country and world. Read on for a selection of IA Member institutions who have shared stories of public and engaged scholarship through the IA Member Spotlight feature.
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Spotlight on UC Santa Cruz’s Community of Practice
March 18, 2025
In this month’s member spotlight, we uplift a collaboration between institutes at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) that are prioritizing community-engaged scholarship, and we invite a close look at Watsonville is in the Heart – a community research and archive initiative undertaken in collaboration with UCSC faculty and graduate students, currently housed at The Humanities Institute.
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Spotlight on Reed College’s Arts-engaged Scholarship
February 28, 2025
In this month’s member spotlight, we focus on the ‘Desert Forest’ project from IA member Reed College, that centers the Joshua Tree. Co-conceived and co-directed by Prof. Juniper Harrower, this multidisciplinary project brings together natural history, Indigenous knowledge, public policy, conservation science, and creative works by historic and contemporary artists to spotlight the threatened tree and preservation efforts around it. And we bring you a sneak peek from Reed College’s collaboratory project!
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Spotlight on Michigan State University’s Creativity in the Time of COVID-19
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.
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Spotlight on Emory University’s Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues and Public Scholarship
October 22, 2024
This month, we shine a spotlight on the many ways in which faculty and students at Emory University are leveraging the power of public scholarship to foster conversations across and between departments and disciplines through story circles, sidecar courses, and IA engagement tools.
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FHSU Spotlights Prof. Amy Schmierbach’s FACT Workshops
September 24, 2024
In this month’s IA Member Spotlight, we bring lessons at the intersection of arts and disability justice from Art Professor Amy Schmierbach’s First Responder, Art Collaboration, Training (FACT) workshops, which are offered in conjunction with her ART 308: Community Engaged Art class at Fort Hays State University.
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Spotlight on Towson University’s Communities of Engaged Practice
August 23, 2024
In this month’s Member Spotlight, we feature a range of projects from Towson University’s work at the intersection of community-engaged art, scholarship, and co-curricular programs. Featured projects include: Reimaining Schools Collaborative, Impact TU, and the recently launched Imagining America Communities of Practice initiative. Check out the CALL FOR ART included in the post!
