Author: Angela Zonunpari

Here’s how three musicians, composers, and teachers are challenging what music is, how to experience it, and who gets to enjoy it.

An ordinary home—and the extraordinary people who lived there—will give visitors firsthand access to one of America’s most important and transformative eras.

BOLD-choice Theatre puts community actors on stage, giving voice to authenticity, agency, and acceptance.

Creativity and athleticism aren’t mutually exclusive. This soccer team worked alongside an art museum and designer on its new jerseys—for a win on and off the field.

Started in 1976 in a former beauty parlor, The People’s Music School has welcomed thousands of students through their doors. None of them have had to pay a cent.

Artist Mae Colburn, whose grandmother collected all of them, is figuring out that answer—through cataloguing, repurposing, and pondering.

From Minneapolis to Cincinnati, Green Bay to Kansas City, fringe festivals focus on variety, accessibility, and community to bring artists and audiences together.

Alternate models and new-to-us ideas consistently find space in the heartland. So, what is it about this region that encourages this welcoming of ingenuity and reimagining?

Our AAPI neighbors—artists, culture bearers, organizers, and nonprofits—make the Midwest what it is—creative, caring, and thriving!

The Haitian American Museum of Chicago celebrates a new building and strong legacy of community care through art, education, and connection.