The MdW Atlas is a regular online publication where editorial partners from each state commission contributions of stories, artwork, media, and other genres. It is also a radio show! The Atlas Editor is Mairead Case.

The complete 2022 Atlas Table of Contents, featuring 68 contributions, is below (keep scrolling!). It is currently being compiled into a book designed by Lu Liang and will be released at the 2024 convening in Kansas City.

The 2024 edition began in May 2024 and will continue to grow.

2024 Editors:
Rita Mae Reese, Art Lit Lab (Wisconsin)
John Engelbrecht and Rachel Buse, PS1 and Art Beacon (Iowa)
Yashi Davalos, Charlotte Street Foundation (Missouri)
Sylvia Thomas, Big Car (Indiana)
Za’Nia Coleman, Tangible Collective (Minnesota)
Alexander Andrew-Martin, Project 1612 (Illinois)
Intersectional Press (Michigan)
M. Carmen Lane, ANTSC (Ohio)
L.M. Forgie, Red River Creatives (North Dakota)
Angela Zonunpari, No Business Magazine (South Dakota)
Erika Nelson, The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Version of the World’s Largest Things (Kansas)
Peter Fankhauser, Amplify Arts (Nebraska)

If you have questions or need paper copies, large print, translations, or alt text, email Mairead: mairead.case @ gmail

Oyinda Itabiyi Oyinda Itabiyi

MN to NYC to LA and back to MN

Let's be honest: believing that art and creative direction are your best bet for survival means one thing—it is your best bet because you'd perish without it, and you can't help anyone if you're gone. Necessity.

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Bryn Jackson & April Knauber Bryn Jackson & April Knauber

Markings of Remembrance

Uniting this group over ancestral body art has helped me understand that the markers of Filipino identity were never the full story.

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Alejandra Carrillo Alejandra Carrillo

Printmaking with Purpose

“Chavalitos” is dedicated to the men in our family who make an effort to unlearn their patterns and express their emotions verbally.

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Sylvia Thomas Sylvia Thomas

Year One

I changed my approach to strangers. I used to be closed off for fear of my safety, but now I’m jubilant and welcome everyone on the block.

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John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse

More Sacred PDFs!

Another round for your operations manual.

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John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse

Sacred PDFs: Collect Them All!

It's time to assemble your operations manual. These sacred portable document formats (PDFs), made by representatives from Art Beacon and PS1, are collectable pieces of art!

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John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse John Engelbrecht & Rachel Buse

Operations Manual: a (good old) Manifesto

We offer this small selection of replies to our elusive prompt (it was such an unconstrained ask!) as a demonstration or prototype for knowledge and histories that are more likely to exist in gallery conversations than search engine results.

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Sasha Debevec-McKenney Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Five Poems

I SEE OTIS REDDING’S GHOST ON THE BIKE PATH

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Nikki Wallschlaeger Nikki Wallschlaeger

Notes on Commute

America is an idea that belongs only to people. I’m glad.

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Art Lit Lab Art Lit Lab

Ghosts of Wisconsin

Art—in all of its forms—is one crucial way to combat this blindness—to open ourselves and each other to things we can’t explain or contextualize, and to see beyond our current moment.

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2022 Atlas Table of Contents

ILLINOIS

Editors selected by Public Media Institute

Tempestt Hazel

Nance Klehm

MINNESOTA

Editors selected by Confluence Studio

Sam Gould, Duaba Unenra & John Kim

INDIANA

Editors selected by Big Car

Jim Walker

Brett Bloom

MISSOURI 

Editors selected by Charlotte Street Foundation

Kimi Kitada

Stephanie Koch

IOWA

Editors selected by PS1

John Engelbrecht & Kalmia Strong

Cameron Gray

MICHIGAN

Editors selected by Bulk Space

Talking Dolls

Ashley Cook

WISCONSIN

Editors selected by Wormfarm Institute

Curt Meine

Dan S. Wang

BORDERLESS EDITORS

Kristi McGuire

Mairead Case