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.

Ryan Schnurr Ryan Schnurr

Oil and Water

This is one of those ideas that gets worse the more you think about it: oil and water sloshing around and across each other in ever-more-dangerous combinations. 

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Onyx Montes Onyx Montes

Love Before and After

Loving yourself is about embracing the love you have for your practice because you love yourself first.

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Nisi Shawl Nisi Shawl

My Recipe for Making Amends

The unfurling bud at the tip of the tree of my resistance is my dawning realization that I and many others—maybe you yourself—could easily be classified as criminals. Indeed, many of us are classified that way already.

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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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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