Location: Minnesota
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Midwesterners Embrace Art to Improve Community Health and People’s Wellbeing
July 24, 2025
Here are stories of how arts, culture, and creativity tie into health and wellness in the region.
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More Than a Sign: Midwest Artists Hand-Paint Local Identity
July 16, 2025
In Chicago and Minneapolis, these sign painters continue the precise, customized, and fun (their words!) tradition.
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Artists Bring Life to Death at Midwest’s First Cemetery Art Residency
July 9, 2025
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
July 9, 2025
The Paper Lantern Project creates accessible spaces and resources to break down stigmas against gender and reproductive justice in Minnesota’s Asian American community.
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Transforming Invasive Plants into Paper That Grows Wildflowers
July 1, 2025
In their mobile studio, Anna Haglin and James Kleiner travel across Minnesota teaching folks the art of sustainable papermaking.
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Celebrate Make Music Day, the Midwestern Way
June 20, 2025
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!
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Six Midwest Cities Among the ‘Most Arts-Vibrant’ in the US
June 18, 2025
The numbers are in: six Midwestern cities just made the list of the country’s most culturally dynamic communities.
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Song a Day Keeping Doctors at Bay in Midwest Choirs
June 10, 2025
From clef to coda, singers are reclaiming their voices—and so much more—while managing dementia, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.
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‘Silly Fish Parade’ Exalts Springtime, Cardboard, and the Smelt Queen
May 29, 2025
This annual smelt parade along Lake Superior reels back to a niche tradition of catching the small, silvery fish in the dark of night.
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This Grassroots Night Market Proves 'Culture is Here' in the Midwest
May 21, 2025
Fargo’s annual Asian Night Market celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage. Participants and vendors have nearly quadrupled since the event began in 2022.