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

Katie Giritlian Katie Giritlian

terms for pressing with

My hope, but not my expectation, is that together we may yield more tremble than objects, because we will be concerned with finding, and having found, ways to carry the camera for each other.

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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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Ashley Cook Ashley Cook

Runner Magazine Presents…

three different people whose work responds to societal concerns, offers solutions, and positively influences the world around them.

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J. Dakota Brown J. Dakota Brown

New Cultures of Work: A Syllabus

As Thompson shows, the modern work day—and even our basic sense of what constitutes an hour or a year—was a violent imposition that met fierce resistance.

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Dan S. Wang Dan S. Wang

Wisconsin Excluded

Naming the non-human features of the land is a human activity with all attendant human limitations. Thus the will to represent falls into the well of selection—and for an atlas like this one, of curation.

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Confluence Studio Confluence Studio

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.

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Thomas Huston Thomas Huston

Shims may be necessary to reduce the wobble

Critique is ultimately a dialogue, one which unveils the structures within which the critique takes place. It is subjective. There are no objective truths in critique. It is a practice.

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Cameron A. Granger Cameron A. Granger

Homebody

I’m here simply because I love being here, and I love making art here.

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Michaelangelo Matos Michaelangelo Matos

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.

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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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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