The 20th issue of IMAG arrives with a theme as timely as it is timeless — Collaboration and Connection — and it is one you won’t want to miss.
The editors chose this focus for deeply considered reasons: to honor the collective, negotiated, and empathetic ways artists and educators navigate an increasingly complex world. The arts, they argue, offer a living forum for building understanding across cultures, mediums, and perspectives. This issue also marks a personal milestone, celebrating five years of editorial partnership, reflected in a visual essay documenting a workshop the principal editors led at the 2025 InSEA World Congress in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Inside, readers will find a rich and varied constellation of voices. Marzieh Mosavarzadeh and Ken Morimoto open with Love Letter(ing), a cross-continent poetic exchange exploring community, love ethics, and the porous spaces between self and world. Mafalda Alves Carreira and Ana Serra Rocha offer a rhizomatic, unfinished inquiry into collaborative poster design, inviting us to dwell in the experience rather than fixate on the outcome. Barbara Drobot’s visual essay Continuous Line confronts vulnerability head-on, showing how shared courage in the art room can level the ground between teacher and student. And Kuoyang Yu takes us somewhere unexpected entirely — into conversation with Artificial Intelligence — using color, body, and heart rate to map the traces of human-machine engagement.
From love letters to AI dialogues, from the power of an unbroken line to the color green as metaphor for coexistence, Issue 20 is a testament to what becomes possible when we create together.
Read Issue 20 now and explore what connection looks like in art education today.
