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, ATNSC (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.

Nance Klehm 7/11/22 Nance Klehm 7/11/22

Follow the Flowers: Navigating These Unruly Times, This Unbound Place

Longitude is a human creation, having to do with the political belly button of whoever is of influence.

Curt Meine 7/9/22 Curt Meine 7/9/22

Wisconsin Flows: Rock, Water, Seed

Wisconsin rocks flow through time.

Confluence Studio 7/8/22 Confluence Studio 7/8/22

Deep Roots Break Bricks

How do I see you? How do you support me? How do I support you?

PS1 7/7/22 PS1 7/7/22

a story about staying and going

this should be a place that holds this transitory history of the community to some extent

Kimi Kitada 7/6/22 Kimi Kitada 7/6/22

Reflections on History from a (Temporary) Missourian

For me, it is imperative to understand the past to feel grounded in the present, and to imagine a radical future.

Talking Dolls 7/4/22 Talking Dolls 7/4/22

Letter from Detroit

As far as we know, there is no name or clear borders that distinguish our neighborhood.

olivier 7/3/22 olivier 7/3/22

(eyes) !?!?!?!!!??????....??? (eyes) On the Artist-Run Archives of Ufology

Is an archive that doesn’t aim for forever still an archive? And if I happen to have forever, would I even care about archives?

Kristi McGuire 7/3/22 Kristi McGuire 7/3/22

Artist Running From

Critique is only ever the process of articulating something real, by which I mean, shared.

Sara Maloney 7/2/22 Sara Maloney 7/2/22

Pole Dancing in South Bend, Indiana

You actually need skin contact in order to stick to the pole. Cloth will slide off. Bare knees, thighs, upper arms, and often belly and torso are required.