News & Press
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2026 Mail Art Project Unveiled
July 13, 2026
IA is pleased to share the artistic contributions created by participants from IA member institutions for the 2026 Mail Art Project (MAP). The 2026 Mail Art Project takes inspiration from the 2025 IA National Gathering – Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want, which invited us to consider how to provide passage for one another and all beings towards a more just, liberatory, and caring future.
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New Host Campus: Penn State
July 2, 2026
It is our pleasure to announce that the new host of Imagining America (starting July 1, 2027) is The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)! After a two-year search process led by the IA National Advisory Board (NAB), where we engaged multiple inspiring campus communities, Penn State emerged as a well prepared and visionary candidate to lead and strengthen the national consortium.
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Apply for 2026-2027 PAGE & IA/JGS Fellowships
May 19, 2026
Imagining America is pleased to announce that our 2026-2027 fellowship programs for graduate and undergraduate students is now open! The PAGE Fellowship applications close on July 17, 2026 (extended deadline), and IA/JGS Fellowship applications close on July 15, 2026.
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Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers
April 29, 2026
Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.
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IA Announces 2026 Regional Collaboratories
April 28, 2026
Imagining America is proud to announce the 2026 cohort for the IA Regional Collaboratories. IA staff reviewed many excellent submissions and we thank all who shared their visions as part of the call for proposals. We selected eight projects that examine how the work of imagining and practices of imagination are critical to organizing personal, institutional, and societal transformation.
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2026 IA Regional Collaboratories: Call for Proposals
February 3, 2026
The 2026 invitation for IA Collaboratories welcomes proposals from IA member campuses to form communities around practices of imagination. This year we are prioritizing proposals from regional clusters of campuses and partners with an intentional effort to support and activate regional engagement in the IA network. Proposals are due March 13.
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IA Announces 2025 Awardees: Alexis Pauline Gumbs and David Hoffman
December 3, 2025
Imagining America is pleased to announce that David Hoffman is the recipient of the 2025 Randy Martin Spirit Award, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Julie Ellison Vision Award. Please join us in celebrating the work and spirit of these dedicated community-engaged scholars, artists, organizers.
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IA Unveils 2025 Mail Art Project: Textures of Ecology
December 3, 2025
IA is pleased to share the artistic contributions created by participants from IA member institutions for the 2025 Mail Art Project (MAP). Inspired by the IA happening Textures of Ecology, this iteration of the participatory art project invited participants to draw grounding and inspiration from the natural world in their creative art-making practices.
