Location: Minnesota
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When the Community Print Shop Outgrows Your Living Room
March 25, 2025
The recently expanded, artist-run print shop began with 144 square feet inside a Minneapolis apartment after realizing a community need.
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Your Potluck Needs a Dish (or Two) from These Midwestern Cookbooks
March 12, 2025
There’s nothing better than a meal with a story! Create delectable dishes with Midwest roots, from these cookbooks by chefs and foodies across the region.
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Midwestern Pizza Traditions You Should Know About
March 6, 2025
The art of Midwestern pizza goes way beyond deep dish. Here’s a slice of some ‘za traditions from across the region.
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Midwest Made: New Local Music to Add to Your Playlist
January 16, 2025
We asked y’all for local band recommendations, plus a few favorites from staff here at Arts Midwest. Listen up!
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Bare Feet and Banjos Meet at Woolsock, a Winter Festival
January 9, 2025
This old-time music and dance festival is set in the chilly woods of northeast Minnesota. The weekend is a celebration of winter triumph, collective joy, and movement.
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Meet Paul Summers, The Native Musician Putting Mission Over Money
January 6, 2025
Through his Native American rock band, Paul Summers rejected commercial success in order to reach younger generations with messages of cultural acceptance and reconciliation instead.
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Need a Mental Health Boost? Talking Hot Dog is Here
December 19, 2024
A Minnesota-based comic book artist is sharing colorful stories about battling anxiety and other mental health gremlins.
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Small Midwest Town is Home to the Oldest Rural LGBTQ+ Pride Event
November 26, 2024
Pride in the Park began as a casual picnic organized by a local support group in 2005 in Pine City, Minnesota. Now, the annual event has attendees from eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
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Game Time: Reviving the Ojibwe Way with Dice and Cards
November 19, 2024
Minnesota-based Nashke Native Games is breathing new life into dying languages, in the classroom and beyond.
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A Rural Opera House Faces its Biggest Challenge Yet
November 4, 2024
Minnesota’s oldest operating theater is racing to raise $4 million to save its historic stage.