Author: Angela Zonunpari

Aaron Foley’s novel, “Boys Come First,” will be made into a TV series by Amazon Studios. It’s a win for indie authors, the Black LGBTQIA+ community and the Midwest at large.

In Indigenous culture, the arts aren’t mere entertainment but a vital practice grounded in community. Those arts include hoop dancing, a form of storytelling through movement. Starr Chief Eagle is among a generation of women making the traditionally male practice their own.

Central Ohio is home to a thriving community of zine makers, zine libraries and zine festivals—proof that, even with the advent of technology, this beloved analog medium is here to stay.

People with developmental differences lead the way at this joy-fueled, accessibility-centered arts studio in Athens, Ohio.

If we told you there’s a farm where calving, cheese-making, watercolor painting, and singing (to cows) converge, would you believe us?

From a 138-year-old historic church to a vacant tube manufacturing building, these projects across the Midwest are staking out space for creativity to shine.

Rejecting the erasure of Arab culture and artistry, these Midwestern organizations implore artists they work with to come as their full selves.

They wanted to create spaces for their communities to gather. So, instead of waiting for someone else, they decided to build it themselves.

What happens when Midwestern artists and collectives come together? MdW Assembly—an alternative (to an) art fair.

An act of preservation in 1911 made way for this living project that reclaims Lakota culture, knowledge and religious freedom.