Author: Angela Zonunpari
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Visiting Ohio’s Otherworld is a Road Trip to Another Dimension
June 20, 2024
Artists have turned an abandoned 32,000 square-feet retail space into an immersive, playful experience like no other.
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A Mural Process Shaped by, for, and with the Community
June 18, 2024
The Mural On The Wall team works closely with community members from finding locations to generating imagery, themes, and content.
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Black Museums in the Midwest You Must Visit
June 13, 2024
In Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois, explore three different stories of the Black experience in America.
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In Wisconsin, Traditional Mexican Craft Meets Modernist Painting in This 30-Year Collaboration
June 6, 2024
Wenceslas Martinez transforms Sandra Jo's paintings into intricate woven masterpieces. The couple started by selling their creations from a chicken coop and have since expanded their reach internationally.
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Once the ‘Jazz Corridor of the Midwest,’ Akron is Cementing Its Place in Jazz Culture
June 4, 2024
After the impacts of dwindling industry and a failed highway project, jazz is seeing a revival with help from local musicians, students and university.
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The Beating Heart of This Southern Illinois Community Is Its High School Band
May 30, 2024
Along with the band director’s fearless advocacy, the community started a nonprofit, which helped explore grants and sought creative ways to save the music.
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Meet Zoë Neugebohr, an Emerging Indigenous Filmmaker with Roots in Minnesota and Michigan
May 22, 2024
Influenced by her upbringing, Neugebohr shares intimate, grounded, and slice-of-life stories through her filmmaking and writing.
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Along the Mississippi River, Two Indigenous Artists Trace Connecting Currents
May 7, 2024
Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin draw on the intersecting histories and ecologies of the third largest watershed in the world.
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From the Runway to the Studio: Meet the Lak̇ot̄a Rapper Who's Traveling the World
May 2, 2024
Music has been a connector and motivator for Gunner Jules. It's taken him overseas and around the country for youth workshops and collaborative projects.
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'Art Against the Odds' Shines a Light on Artists Within Wisconsin’s Justice System
April 24, 2024
The traveling exhibition and archive centers on visibility and art as a survival tool.