Creative Ideas, People, and Projects in the Midwest and Beyond
Stories from the Creativity News Desk-
July 30, 2025
Creative Process and Identity Blend at This Summer Program for Teens
By Amy “Frankie” Felegy
The two-week art intensive for Native American high school students embraces ‘creative futures,’ inspired by leading artists of the Northern Plains.
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Midwesterners Embrace Art to Improve Community Health and People’s Wellbeing
July 24, 2025
Here are stories of how arts, culture, and creativity tie into health and wellness in the region.
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Make That Idea a Reality at a Midwest Makerspace
July 23, 2025
Have a project, but not a way to give life to it? These accessible tools and resource hubs across the Midwest have got your back.
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Small Midwest Town on the ‘World’s Largest’ List, Thanks to Art (and Jim)
July 22, 2025
The city’s population isn’t wildly huge, but the things inside are. Meet the man creating dozens of colossal sculptures for neighbors and beyond.
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More Than a Sign: Midwest Artists Hand-Paint Local Identity
July 16, 2025
In Chicago and Minneapolis, these sign painters continue the precise, customized, and fun (their words!) tradition.
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Six Midwest Cities Among the ‘Most Arts-Vibrant’ in the US
By Angela Zonunpari
The numbers are in: six Midwestern cities just made the list of the country’s most culturally dynamic communities.
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Wash & Mosh: An Unlikely Home for All-Ages DIY Music
By Taylor Dorrell
The last-standing storefront of a once-expansive laundromat-bar chain in central Ohio has welcomed hardcore music lovers for the last decade.
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The ‘Prosthetic Guy’ Who Crafts Artful Appendages to Empower Patients
By Jonathan Feakins
Nicholas Harrier, a childhood cancer survivor and above-knee amputee, creates custom, free-of-charge “jackets” to be slipped over patients’ artificial limbs. Study shows that this type of engaged process leads to positive outcomes.
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