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

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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Sierah Barnhart (she / her) Sierah Barnhart (she / her)

In Defiance of Racism

Oftentimes, “Lake Life” is seen as something that only white people get to enjoy. The rest of us have to hope to know a white person who will let us come up for a day. Fox Lake reminds us that we are all allowed at the lake.

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jameson malone jameson malone

routine

Experiencing the flow state of creation feels outside the bounds of time itself to me. How can that not feel spiritual?

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Mary Swander Mary Swander

AgArts: Imagining a Healthy Food System

We are based in Amishland, where sustainability is modeled, but we reach out to artists and farmers throughout the world to join together and work for a more regenerative agricultural future.

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Monica Leo Monica Leo

Building Community

We’d been producing performances and workshops and educating for years. Now it was time to start “enhancing the quality of community life.”

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Dawson Davenport Dawson Davenport

Letter from Iowa

I created the Indigenous Art Alliance, which is an alliance of Indigenous Artists who are working and doing great things in the Indigenous Art World.

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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