MdW Atlas 2022

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Thank goodness everything keeps changing. Thank goodness we are here together ,in our own growing ways, under the silver, blue, and gold Midwestern skies.TheMdW Atlas is a project that, like art and like the Midwest, illuminates contradiction, concurrent truths, and above all, who we are, luminously and together. In the summer of 2022, twenty editors from seven Midwestern states invited 68 Midwestern artists to write (or draw, or cook, or map) what it’s like to make their work where they are, right now. We wanted to name each other and find each other. The process was freeing, chaotic, precise, and gorgeous.Ultimately, we made our own map. Always, the goal was to support editors and artists financially and in community, to listen and amplify, and most espe-cially to foster a wild and hopeful pride in who we are as Midwesterners.Welcome! You, dear reader, are now our business too. Mairead Case, Atlas Editor(b. Omaha, Nebraska)

Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.75"
Materials: Paperback, 503 pages

Public Media Institute
(Bridgeport)

PMI is a non-profit 501(c) 3 community based, art & culture organization located in the neighborhood of Bridgeport. Their mission is to create, incubate and sustain innovative cultural programming through the production of socially engaged projects, festivals, spaces, exhibitions, and media. PMI has published several periodicals including Proximity Magazine, the international arts and culture journal, as well as Lumpen magazine, Materiel Magazine, and Mash Tun Journal. Their main exhibition facility is the experimental cultural center, Co-Prosperity: a 5,000 + sq ft visual arts and performance space that is also home to Lumpen Radio WPLN/105.5 FM. The Buddy store is the newest arm of the PMI non-profit.In 2022, we are bringing back the spirit of that firstMdW Fair, and expanding the period of interaction and programming, in the hope that we can spark some new ideas and immerse ourselves in some needed organized solidarity. In past ideations, the event itself became the main point of engagement. In-person communication and gathering remain very important in our social mediated age. However, in this edition ofMdW, we want to introduce our six Midwestern partners, their work, and projects happening throughout the Central Midwest region, prior to gathering in Chicago. We want to start the conversation and to include folks who can’t join us in-person at the Fair.For the next few months, we will be publishing stories, artwork, media, and other genres from our partners and their friends and allies. Each of our organizing partners has nominated a July and August Editor, and these editors will each commission three pieces of work from their community. All the contributions will eventually become a book. We intend to create a living archive of strategies, and to open a dialogue with a Midwestern approach to facing the madness that surrounds us politically, civically, and economically.Join us. We need you to help us build forward the world we want to live in. Ed Marszewski Director, Public Media InstituteWritten Spring 2022 at the launch of the MdW Atlas