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  • A bright sunny day. A Joshua Tree is center frame. A woman digs in the foreground, and a ditch makes its way through the center of the image. Another woman walks the other side of the ditch with a shovel in her hand.

    Spotlight on Reed College’s Arts-engaged Scholarship

    By Imagining America

    February 18, 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...

  • Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz

    By Imagining America

    February 4, 2025

    When: Thursday, February 27, 2025 12pm to 1:30pmWhere: Humanities 1 Building, 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, California 95064 Imaginging America (IA) is pleased...

  • Against a blue background with pinkish highlights are the following: imagining america logo at the top, below is the logo for the Teaching and Learning circle - which is the letters tlc followed by two intersecting circles in pink and white, below which is the text 'teaching and learning circle'. Below this logo is the text Activate your IA Membership. Underneath that are two circles with hands doing activities - one beading, one cutting paper.

    Activate Your IA Membership Teaching and Learning Circle 

    By Imagining America

    January 22, 2025

    February 25, 2025, 1-2pm PST, Virtual. Please join Imagining America for a Teaching and Learning Circle to learn more about activating your IA membership. This event will highlight a new toolkit developed by IA staff using many of the ideas that members have implemented to energize their campus, engage their IA member benefits, and uplift public scholarship.

  • In the background is a blue-green gradient, which reveals a background of a's is it fades away on the right. On the left bottom is the IA logo (a red 'a'). In the middle is the word 'collaboratories'. The 'o' is represented as a series of gear wheels.

    IA announces six new Collaboratories launching in 2025

    By Imagining America

    January 21, 2025

    Imagining America is proud to announce six new Collaboratories launching in 2025. These compelling proposals responded to the first invitation for IA Collaboratories...

  • We are looking at a set of glass windows with metal frames overlooking a public are below. A large transclucent yellow poster hangs in the windows, with the words Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 cascading down.

    Spotlight on Michigan State University’s Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

    By Imagining America

    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. 

  • Banner style layout showing a shallow tide pooling over rocks, underwater details visible beneath the surface. The word PORTA(L)AGE appears in bold yellow, merging ideas of ‘portal’ and ‘portage’ within the tidal scene.

    —-\\\\\|||||||//////— PORTA(L)GE  ~~~~~(((((((((<<<>>>>((((((((

    By Imagining America

    December 4, 2024

    Catheryne Geneviève Hicks. it is evident that we live in a world marked by growing catastrophe and suffering. we endure globally sanctioned state...