A month-long series of creative engagements on reimagining and rebuilding ‘America’.
This year, in place of an in-person National Gathering, Imagining America is hosting a month-long series of creative engagements providing opportunities for reflection, healing, and a radical reimagining of the world in which we live. Combining open call community creative work with a curated program of performances, artist and scholar dialogues, workshops, and community meals, this Collective Creative Engagement will reckon with the steep toll of Covid-19 and the systemic inequities it has laid bare while drawing on the power in the possibility of this moment.
Together we will consider 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?
Beginning October 5, you will be invited to participate in a Monday plenary session followed by workshops, performances, and/or dialogues each week alongside less structured opportunities to connect with other participants. Throughout the month of October, we will also share and celebrate the creative responses submitted by the IA community in response to this year’s thematic.
The 2020 Collective Creative Engagement is organized in partnership with Tulane University, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and members of the 2020-21 National Gathering New Orleans Steering Committee. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This year, in place of an in-person National Gathering, Imagining America is hosting a month-long series of creative engagements providing opportunities for reflection, healing, and a radical reimagining of the world in which we live. Combining open call community creative work with a curated program of performances, artist and scholar dialogues, workshops, and community meals, this Collective Creative Engagement will reckon with the steep toll of Covid-19 and the systemic inequities it has laid bare while drawing on the power in the possibility of this moment.
Together we will consider 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?
Beginning October 5, you will be invited to participate in a Monday plenary session followed by two or more workshops, performances, and/or dialogues each week alongside less structured opportunities to connect with other participants. Throughout the month of October, we will also share and celebrate the creative responses submitted by the IA community in response to this year’s thematic.
The 2020 Collective Creative Engagement is organized in partnership with Tulane University, Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and members of the 2020-21 National Gathering New Orleans Steering Committee. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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