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.

Lee Hunter Lee Hunter

No Coast

I’ve been called a utopian for thinking another world is possible, but it’s going to be a different world no matter what happens.

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Kimberly Blaeser, Max Garland, Angie Trudell Vasquez & Catherine Young Kimberly Blaeser, Max Garland, Angie Trudell Vasquez & Catherine Young

Wisconfluence

We are water beings.

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Karen Goulet, Monique Verdin & Rebecca Dallinger Karen Goulet, Monique Verdin & Rebecca Dallinger

A Big River Continuum

The river made us friends.

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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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Oreo Jones Oreo Jones

Listen To Your City

I will never forget walking around the fountain, soaking up all the sounds and the Black joy exuberating from building to building—people dancing in the streets in unison, celebrating together for one day.

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Adam Carr, Sara Daleiden & Wes Tank Adam Carr, Sara Daleiden & Wes Tank

Rural Urban FLOW: Every seed has a powerful story

The conversation veered in many directions, driven by personal stories, meditations on agriculture, cultural context, race in America, and much more—but at the center: a shared vision to enliven our region by connecting people across geography and history.

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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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Kevin Umaña Kevin Umaña

Artist-Run Galleries Dazzle

The challenge of this series is to address how we encourage and educate ourselves and the public about the importance of living and engaging with art and community. How do we cultivate a sense of culture and welcome constructive criticism?

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Kaila Austin Kaila Austin

Reimagining the Hardrick Home

Trust building is the most essential part of this. If you want someone to tell you their story, to be vulnerable, to make art, you must make them feel safe enough to do so.

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Diana Noh Diana Noh

Understanding Abandonment

In order to be social, in order to love other people, first you need to understand yourself, and furthermore, to love yourself intactly.

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Marcia Bjornerud, Eric Carson, Rudy Molinek & Roxanne Aubrey Marcia Bjornerud, Eric Carson, Rudy Molinek & Roxanne Aubrey

Layered by Time

Each new geologic day brings a change in sea level, and with it a change in landscape.

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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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Chad Onianwa Chad Onianwa

Art in a Vacuum

It’s more crucial than ever to consider ways we can expand our interpretation of community.

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Miz Korona Miz Korona

Motor City

I ain’t talking Jordan when I say I’m on my sixth ring

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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