News & Press
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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.
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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.
