Author: Lydia Moran

For one night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Refugee Coalition turned inspirational immigrant stories into a musical journey to bring awareness of the current migrant crisis.

The Entry Points artist residency gives former juvenile lifers housing and exhibition opportunities.

Artist Talle Bamazi turned personal tragedy into an ongoing series of works centered on the calabash, an object from African culture representing sharing and community.

As Fort Wayne's theatre scene grows, Gavin Thomas Drew is working to ensure that audiences and theatre makers from unrepresented groups are both welcomed and supported.

Tyler Thompson found out she got into law school the same week she decided to open her own cheerleading academy. Rather than choose between two dreams, she's been tackling both ever since.

One grandfather’s vision about ‘gallons and gallons’ of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara seeds nurtures Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College food sovereignty project.

Mary Jo Hoffman's daily commitment to showcasing and seeing nature has become life-changing for the engineer-turned-artist.

At the start of Covid lockdown, Harmony Hill felt called to support her community of Native artists in Milwaukee. Since then, she's built a nonprofit – Red Magic – that hosts festivals and provides resources for all Native artists. Through it all, she's upending colonial narratives about what art is.

At Bernie’s, Food Network host-turned-restaurateur Molly Yeh serves delicious hotdish, knoephla, and cookie salad, among other midwestern staples.

DeAnn Wiley just released her debut book “Homegrown,” and she has more to come.