Angela Zonunpari

Angela Zonunpari (she/her/hers) has been working at Arts Midwest since 2022, overseeing the Creativity News Desk, a storytelling initiative working with creatives to share stories about arts, culture and creativity in the region, and amplifying these stories of Midwestern creativity.

She works with the Communications team to collaborate on story planning, production timelines, and design. She does this by using her writing, editing, multimedia production, and project management skills that she gained while working in marketing, public relations, art communication, journalism and video production at Fresh Produce and Ipso Gallery, No Business Magazine, Bonhams, BRIC, and Hindustan Times.

How Parking Lots Became Pop-Up Stages for Dance and Music

Over six years, Sioux Falls’s Headlights Theater gathered hundreds of community members for distinct performances—sparking joy and sharing a world of possibilities.

A sculpture of the outline of a orange house, with a slab of mud within it. A group of people look at an artist as he explains the work.

Call for Pitches: Short-Form Video from Your Community

Send us unedited video clips that show creativity in your community, and get paid as a community documenter!

A person wearing a mustard-colored headscarf and black coat faces a wall and interacts with an artwork. The wall has a number of colorful, patterned works of paper, that look like cards, hung on rows of string.

Midwesterners Embrace Art to Improve Community Health and People’s Wellbeing

Here are stories of how arts, culture, and creativity tie into health and wellness in the region.

A diverse, smiling group of 22 people poses indoors near large windows, with a modern artwork in the background.

What We Learned: Creative Midwest Media Cohort

A lot can happen when you give local media the funding, flexibility, and community to cover arts and culture in the Midwest.

Closeup of Pharez Whitted playing the trumpet

Celebrate Make Music Day, the Midwestern Way

On Saturday, June 21, more than 35 cities and towns across the Midwest are taking part in a global celebration of music-making, and you can join in!

Two people stand next to a white wall and look at the different artworks mounted on the wall.

Six Midwest Cities Among the ‘Most Arts-Vibrant’ in the US

The numbers are in: six Midwestern cities just made the list of the country’s most culturally dynamic communities.