Artists Bring Life to Death at Midwest’s First Cemetery Art Residency
On these Minneapolis, Minnesota, grounds, four artists in residence host events and create work throughout the year-long program.
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Meet the Minnesotan Org Centering Ancestors, Art, and Activism
The Paper Lantern Project creates accessible spaces and resources to break down stigmas against gender and reproductive justice in Minnesota’s Asian American community.
Award-Winning Albums and Rare Sounds Simmer at This Midwest Kitchen-Studio
Archeophone Records is an archive of an almost-lost era of American music history—carefully restored and shared with the world from one couple’s home in Illinois.
Transforming Invasive Plants into Paper That Grows Wildflowers
In their mobile studio, Anna Haglin and James Kleiner travel across Minnesota teaching folks the art of sustainable papermaking.
Turning the Chicago River into a Floating Music Venue
These ‘secret river shows’ are a floating, grassroots musician network atop the once-heavily polluted waterway.
This Iowa Folk School is Making Hot Metalworking Cool Again
Artisans are clanking away inside a new forging studio at Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School.
Wash & Mosh: An Unlikely Home for All-Ages DIY Music
The last-standing storefront of a once-expansive laundromat-bar chain in central Ohio has welcomed hardcore music lovers for the last decade.
Celebrate Make Music Day, the Midwestern Way
On Saturday, June 21, more than 35 cities and towns across the Midwest are taking part in a global celebration of music-making, and you can join in!
Six Midwest Cities Among the ‘Most Arts-Vibrant’ in the US
The numbers are in: six Midwestern cities just made the list of the country’s most culturally dynamic communities.
The ‘Prosthetic Guy’ Who Crafts Artful Appendages to Empower Patients
Nicholas Harrier, a childhood cancer survivor and above-knee amputee, creates custom, free-of-charge “jackets” to be slipped over patients’ artificial limbs. Study shows that this type of engaged process leads to positive outcomes.