Author: Angela Zonunpari
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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.
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This National Poetry Month, Meet State Poets Laureate from the Midwest
April 18, 2024
These state-appointed poets promote reading, writing, and appreciation of poetry across the Midwest.
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Meet Pooja Pittie: Art Helped Her Navigate a Life-Changing Diagnosis
April 16, 2024
Chicago artist Pooja Pittie on exploring the bodymind, disability, and building her practice in the Midwest.
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An Expansive Exhibition Illuminates Black Narratives from Detroit Artists
April 10, 2024
Twenty figurative artists share works featuring “a spectrum of lived experiences—joy, intimacy, reverie, danger, tension” in exhibition ‘Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit.’