The Imagining America National Gathering is an annual convening of public scholars, artists, designers, students, and cultural organizers who are addressing the most pressing issues of our time.

The 2023 Imagining America (IA) National Gathering invokes the elements of fire, water, earth, and air to inspire collaboration, offer new lessons and approaches, and demonstrate how the process of reckoning is both reflective and active. Fire shows that sometimes things have to burn to make new growth possible. Water reflects not only the birthing of new beings but also new ways of being. Earth provides a material connection to deep time and the origins of all life. Air brings us closer to our ancestors and the spirit world so that we can manifest that which is yet to be imagined. Together the elements teach us about regenerative and intergenerational cycles of life. 

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