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 also a book, designed by Lu Liang and was released at the 2024 convening in Kansas City. It’s now available for purchase at Buddy.

The 2024-25 edition began in May 2024 and will continue through summer 2024.

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

How to Make a Scene 2024
As a special, live addition to the MdW Atlas, Brandon Alvendia curated a series of conversations among artist organizers from the 80s through the 2020s. Audio and video documentation of those conversations can be found here.

Alondra M. Garza & Sequoia Hauck 9/30/24 Alondra M. Garza & Sequoia Hauck 9/30/24

Cultural Identity in Art: A Conversation with Sequoia Hauck and Alondra M. Garza

“Every time I make something, it’s a ceremony.”

Oyinda Itabiyi 9/25/24 Oyinda Itabiyi 9/25/24

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.

Za'Nia Coleman 9/17/24 Za'Nia Coleman 9/17/24

Seven Years in Our Twenties

I still believe that Tangible is only as successful as the community that supports it.

Genevieve DeLeon 8/27/22 Genevieve DeLeon 8/27/22

In the Direction of the Sky

One morning, my student’s painting of a feather appeared in the sky before me. The clouds had created it.

Confluence Studio 8/19/22 Confluence Studio 8/19/22

On Gravity: an essay by Sam Gould

Everything was confusing at Transmission, and by design.

Confluence Studio 8/12/22 Confluence Studio 8/12/22

A Conversation with Douglas R. Ewart

Bunting is a sacrifice play. It's typically done when the bases are loaded.

Confluence Studio 8/5/22 Confluence Studio 8/5/22

Deep Roots Break Bricks, Pt. 2

The role or the function of publications or media or mediated publications is to help to create new publics, and to help solidify collective consciousness around shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge.

Michaelangelo Matos 8/1/22 Michaelangelo Matos 8/1/22

At Home in the Archives

The first shelf of the music biographies section contains around twenty Louis Armstrong titles, several in duplicate. That’s just one shelf.

Karen Goulet, Monique Verdin & Rebecca Dallinger 7/29/22 Karen Goulet, Monique Verdin & Rebecca Dallinger 7/29/22

A Big River Continuum

The river made us friends.

Confluence Studio 7/22/22 Confluence Studio 7/22/22

No Titles, Just Tasks: Social Ecologies in South Minneapolis

It's not how good I am, it’s how good I want to be. That's our weapon against all the things that have tried to hold us back. Unite and untie have the same letters.

Confluence Studio 7/15/22 Confluence Studio 7/15/22

Water Language: A Conversation with Shanai Matteson and Oscar Tuazon

Water connects us all, and we belong to the water where we live. It could be an essential part of our education and our sense of belonging in the world to get to know the water we drink.