Author: Angela Zonunpari

After the impacts of dwindling industry and a failed highway project, jazz is seeing a revival with help from local musicians, students and university.

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. 

Influenced by her upbringing, Neugebohr shares intimate, grounded, and slice-of-life stories through her filmmaking and writing.

Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin draw on the intersecting histories and ecologies of the third largest watershed in the world.

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.

The traveling exhibition and archive centers on visibility and art as a survival tool.

These state-appointed poets promote reading, writing, and appreciation of poetry across the Midwest.

Chicago artist Pooja Pittie on exploring the bodymind, disability, and building her practice in the Midwest.

Twenty figurative artists share works featuring “a spectrum of lived experiences—joy, intimacy, reverie, danger, tension” in exhibition ‘Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit.’

The Oglala Lakota artist from South Dakota has been touring the country, while connecting back with his roots through community events and music festivals in the state.