News & Press
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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.
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The 2025 IA National Gathering in Review
November 10, 2025
In partnership with New Mexico State University and a local Steering Committee, Imagining America created a joyful and restorative IA National Gathering in Las Cruces, New Mexico. From October 3-5, 2025, over 450 registered attendees participated in activities on the theme of Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want. In the following post, we share back highlights from the gathering through image, video, and text.
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Tools for the Undercommons: Speaker Series
October 28, 2025
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 12 NOON PT / 1PM MT / 2PM CT / 3PM ET; VIRTUAL, ON ZOOM. In this presentation of the IA Collaboratory project ‘Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series,’ Paisley Rekdal (University of Utah) and Hannah Moushabeck (Interlink Publishing) share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia.
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2025-2026 Publicly Active Graduate Student (PAGE) Fellows
October 14, 2025
Imagining America (IA) is proud to announce the cohort of 2025-2026 PAGE Fellows. PAGE is IA’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the praxis and pedagogy of public scholarship; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.
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2025-2026 Imagining America / Joy of Giving Something (JGS) Fellows
October 14, 2025
Imagining America is proud to announce the cohort of 2025-2026 IA/JGS Fellows. These eight undergraduate students from IA Member campuses were selected for their creative use of art to uplift diverse stories, create connection, and build community.
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NMSU embraces scholars, students and community at Imagining America National Gathering
October 13, 2025
Birds were flying south for winter over the weekend as hundreds of people from across the country flocked to the sun-kissed, mountain vistas of the campus of New Mexico State University for the 25th anniversary of the Imagining America (IA) Gathering. READ THE COMPLETE NEWS STORY FROM THE NMSU NEWS DESK.
