This Giant Kite Festival Turns Winter Blues into the Coolest Hues
Iowa’s Color the Wind Kite Festival, the biggest of its kind in the Midwest, is in its second decade of flying massive kites in the middle of winter.
Iowa’s Color the Wind Kite Festival, the biggest of its kind in the Midwest, is in its second decade of flying massive kites in the middle of winter.
If selected, they would be one of four Midwesterners to receive this early career recognition since the category’s inception in 2000.
Staff at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance created a free online course inclusive of all ages, hair textures, and skin tones.
Pachas’s traditional dances pass down indigenous values through stories about bridge building, Mother Earth, and even Lake Michigan.
An art project by Mitchell Street Arts captures Milwaukee’s immigration history in the form of a miniature home.
Artists from around the U.S. and Mexico participate in the Mexican Folk Art Collective, sharing a variety of arts and crafts and inviting the local community to cross-cultural celebrations.
Here’s your excuse to traverse the Midwest—in pursuit of cool art happenings! With your help, we compiled an array of bucket-list travel spots across the region with artsy ties.
Spoken word poet and educator Caleb Rainey commits to ‘staying ready’ in the wake of a breakout year.
The Ann Arbor-based artist and scholar builds bridges between Filipino diasporic and indigenous communities through music.
We asked y’all for local band recommendations, plus a few favorites from staff here at Arts Midwest. Listen up!