The MdW Atlas is a daily online publication where editorial partners from each state commission contributions of stories, artwork, media, and other genres. The Atlas Editor is Mairead Case. The complete 2022 Atlas Table of Contents is below (keep scrolling!).
In total, the MdW Atlas comprises 68 contributions to serve as a guide for a wide swath of creative activity and art work across the region. These contributions will be compiled into a book and released in 2024.
If you have questions or need paper copies, large print, translations, or alt text, email Mairead: mairead.case @ gmail
Trying to make a print / point
Luckily, there will always be people who appreciate the old stuff.
Ten Years Dreaming: A Wisconsin DACA Recipient Speaks Out
This is NOT enough. We need more. DACA recipients want to contribute in full to the growth of this country, to the city of Milwaukee, and prove that we can make a difference in our society.
TEMPORAL VIRTUALOSITY IN THE WASTELAND OF AESTHETICS: the half-life of the Avant Garde Museum of Temporary Art
We should feel not only what we are doing, but what we are representing. The entrance corridor should be seamless, simple, and invisible, even when someone makes their first entrance.
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.
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.
Layered by Time
Each new geologic day brings a change in sea level, and with it a change in landscape.
2022 Atlas Table of Contents
ILLINOIS
Editors selected by Public Media Institute
Tempestt Hazel
Tempestt Hazel, “Make It Last Forever: Movements, Moments, and Questions of Enduring Change in the Arts”
[Lauren Williams] Tempestt Hazel, “Still Here: An Interview with Lauren Williams”
Onyx Montes, “Love Before and After”
Kate Bowen: “Doing Less Is More”
Nance Klehm
Nance Klehm: “Follow the Flowers: Navigating These Unruly Times, This Unbound Place”
Tim Hogan: “& Environs: Peregrine Falcons, Ecological Pecovery & Place in the Midwest Metropolis”
Kimberly Sigafus: “Walking the Native Way”
Charles Joseph Smith, “Digital Toccata”
MINNESOTA
Editors selected by Confluence Studio
Sam Gould, Duaba Unenra & John Kim
Confluence Studio: “Deep Roots Break Bricks: Pt 1, Pt 2” [Pt 1 could be editor letter]
Confluence Studio: “A Conversation with Douglas R. Ewart”
Confluence Studio: “No Titles, Just Tasks: Social Ecologies in South Minneapolis”
Confluence Studio: “Water Language: A Conversation with Shanai Matteson & Oscar Tuazon”
Karen Goulet, Monique Verdin, Rebecca Dallinger: “A Big River Continuum” [too lo-res, though - not sure if we can get better ones]
Sam Gould: “On Gravity”
INDIANA
Editors selected by Big Car
Jim Walker
Jim Walker: “What Can Artists Do? Strive for Utopia”
Kaila Austin: “Reimagining the Hardrick Home”
Oreo Jones: “Listen to Your City”
Brett Bloom
Brett Bloom: “Concrete Cultural Reversals”
Dan Zink: “Going With the Flow: Placemaking Along a Corridor”
Ryan Schnurr: “Oil and Water”
Sierah Barnhart: “In Defiance of Racism”
MISSOURI
Editors selected by Charlotte Street Foundation
Kimi Kitada
Kimi Kitada: “Reflections on History from a (Temporary) Missourian”
rachel atakpa: “Agricultural Poetics: Practices for Transformation” [this piece had major edits since publication; Mairead has the new version]
Kevin Umaña: “Artist-Run Galleries Dazzle”
Chad Onianwa: “Art in a Vacuum”
Stephanie Koch
Stephanie Koch: “How Can We Imagine an Abundant Future for St. Louis?”
Cami Thomas: “LouTown, Evolution (And Flashback)”
Visitor Assembly: “ATL Arts Ecosystem: A Topography”
IOWA
Editors selected by PS1
John Engelbrecht & Kalmia Strong
Mary Swander: “AgArts: Imagining a Healthy Food System”
Monica Leo: “Building Community”
Dawson Davenport: “Letter from Iowa”
Cameron Gray
Cameron Gray: “The Buxton Initiative: Sacred Spaces for Black Futures”
jameson malone: “routine”
Jordan Brooks: “Fill the room with your presence!”
Jill Wells: “What I Learned From a Power Lift Recliner and a Paint Brush”
MICHIGAN
Editors selected by Bulk Space
Talking Dolls
Talking Dolls: “Letter from Detroit”
Miz Korona: “Motor City”
Diana Noh: “Understanding Abandonment”
Ashley Cook
Ashley Cook: “Runner Magazine presents…”
Nisi Shawl: “My Recipe for Making Amends”
Kristen Kirby-Shoote: “In Case of Emergency: Recipes for Collapse”
Bear: “Titles”
WISCONSIN
Editors selected by Wormfarm Institute
Curt Meine
Curt Meine: “Wisconsin Flows: Rock, Water, Seed”
Marcia Bjornerud, Eric Carson, Rudy Molinek, Roxane Aubrey: “Layered by Time”
Adam Carr, Sara Daleiden, Wes Tank: Rural Urban FLOW: Every seed has a powerful story
Kimberly Blaeser, Max Garland, Angie Trudell Vasquez, Catherine Young: “Wisconfluence”
Dan S. Wang
Dan S. Wang: “Wisconsin Excluded”
Alondra Garcia: “Ten Years Dreaming: A Wisconsin DACA Recipient Speaks Out”
BORDERLESS EDITORS
Kristi McGuire
Kristi McGuire: “Artist Running From”
Kristi McGuire: “Lock me up and put me in Witness Protection, with the other AI, or I wonder if we might stop using the word ‘artist’”
Katie Giritlian: “terms for pressing with”
Kim Upstill: “four dream menus for the midwest summer”
J. Dakota Brown: “New Cultures of Work: A Syllabus”
Thomas Huston: “Shims may be necessary to reduce the wobble”
olivier: “(eyes) !?!?!?!!!??????....??? (eyes) On the Artist-Run Archives of Ufology”
Genvieve DeLeon: “In the Direction of the Sky”
Mairead Case
Lee Hunter: “No Coast” - Illinois
N. Adam Beadel: “Trying to make a print / point” - Wisconsin
Cameron A. Granger: “Homebody” - Michigan
Sara Maloney: “Pole Dancing in South Bend, Indiana” - Indiana
Michelangelo Matos: “At Home in the Archives” - Minnesota