SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28, 2020
This year, in place of an in-person IA National Gathering, Imagining America invites creative responses that offer opportunities for community reflection, healing, and the creation of spaces and places for a radical reimagining of the world in which we live. This collective creative engagement will explore questions such as:
● What is the role of art, design, and creative culture in reimagining and rebuilding our world in ways that create antiracist institutions, structures, practices and ways of thinking?
● How can we work towards a post-COVID university that lessens rather than deepens inequality in access, pedagogy, and forms of knowledge production? How might we re-imagine our educational systems, and particularly our colleges and universities, in ways that divest from forms of violence and inequality and invest in cultures and communities of care within institutions and as stakeholders in regions? What are the opportunities and imperatives of our moment?
● What are local communities doing to move towards a more caring, just, and liberatory ‘America’ and world? What are the new and remembered ideas, images, symbols, forms of knowledge, and ways of being that will lead the way?
We invite teams of two individuals and larger to collaborate on a creative project in response to the prompts outlined above. Creative responses are welcome in the following formats and modalities:
- Community Memorial Quilt
- Community Meals
- Paired Dialogues
Participants are requested to document their creative response in a written, visual, or audio-visual format and share them with IA. These responses will be listed on IA’s dedicated event page, with a cross-section of responses featured on IA’s website and Youtube channel in October 2020 as part of curated live streamed and recorded programming.