Author: Angela Zonunpari
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Designing the Future: Indigenous Camp Inspires Young Architects
August 28, 2025
The week-long workshop aims to inspire and build for the future growth of Native architects across Minnesota, tribal nations, and the country.
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How Parking Lots Became Pop-Up Stages for Dance and Music
August 21, 2025
Over six years, Sioux Falls’s Headlights Theater gathered hundreds of community members for distinct performances—sparking joy and sharing a world of possibilities.
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Creative Process and Identity Blend at This Summer Program for Teens
July 30, 2025
The two-week art intensive for Native American high school students embraces 'creative futures,' inspired by leading artists of the Northern Plains.
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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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Award-Winning Albums and Rare Sounds Simmer at This Midwest Kitchen-Studio
July 2, 2025
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.
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Wash & Mosh: An Unlikely Home for All-Ages DIY Music
June 23, 2025
The last-standing storefront of a once-expansive laundromat-bar chain in central Ohio has welcomed hardcore music lovers for the last decade.
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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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The ‘Prosthetic Guy’ Who Crafts Artful Appendages to Empower Patients
June 17, 2025
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.
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Inside the Joyful—and Mini—World of Mid-Century Modern Design
June 12, 2025
For Cyd Raduchel, designing and decorating dollhouses started as a hobby until her niche style brought an online following and a full-time job.