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Join us on a storytelling journey across the nation unfolding, region by region, over the next few years.

Southwest

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Emmi Whitehorse Paints the Harmonies of Her Homelands

The Diné artist's serene paintings "tell the story of knowing land over time."

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Sentinels and Sprawl: Photographs of the Saguaro Cactus

As the presence of humans changes the Sonoran Desert, photographers capture the impact on the saguaro cactus.

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Art that Represents, and Misrepresents, the US-Mexico Border

Contemporary artists working in El Paso and Juárez counter mainstream narratives of the region.

 

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Look Again: Mark Klett's Rephotography of the American West

How the photographer’s journey tracking down views from 19th century photographs altered the writer’s understanding of space and time.

Midwest

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Potter Richard Bresnahan Navigates an “Eco-mutual” Future

The Minnesota artist's humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.

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Modernist Barns and Modern Farmers

How Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Thomas Hart Benton depicted the humble structures—and how they mask the struggles of farmers today.  

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Iowa Artists Craft Complex Visions of the Rural

From Grant Wood’s Corn Room murals to Duane Slick’s grasslands, Iowa artists upend rural stereotypes to tell truer stories about the places they come from.

 

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Called Back: On George Morrison, Land Acknowledgement, and Returning Home

In her tribute to the late George Morrison, Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson asks, how can Indigenous artists be called back to the land?

Pacific Northwest

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Marie Watt Explores the Story of Turtle Island

The artist and member of Seneca Nation shares how meteorites, steel, and blankets carry stories into the future and remind us of Indigenous knowledge that existed long before this land was known as the United States of America.

 

South Central

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Rick Lowe Maps the Unknown

The artist and community organizer's Project Row Houses blends canvas and community in Houston's Third Ward.

Banner image: Arizona's Saguaro National Park. Photograph by Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.