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IA Hubbub, Ep 2: Abundance
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.
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Spotlight on Emerson College’s Amplify & Ignite Symposium
April 14, 2025
In this month's member spotlight, we report back from Emerson College's Amplify & Ignite Symposium, which hosted three days of workshops, panel discussions, presentations, working groups, and dialogue about our questions, curiosities, and work at the intersection of performance, community building, education and justice.
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Reflections: Story Circles for Community Connection in Yolo
April 8, 2025
On March 18, 2025, Imagining America hosted a Story Circle in collaboration with our partners at the International House Davis. The result was an empowering hour and a half session, where deep listening and compassion were on display. In this blog post, we offer resources for IA members to hold their own Story Circles to unleash the power of everyday storytelling.
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IA Hubbub, Ep 1: Cultural Fire
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.
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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.
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
