Midwest Agenda Art News

The Iowa State Fair butter cow will be sculpted in the Smithsonian next year

#midwestagendaartnews #iowa #statefair #sculpture #butter #smithsonian

Viroqua (WI) artist wins award for preserving, teaching traditional arts

#midwestagendaartnews #potawatomi #culture #heritage

Naked, 43-foot Trump sculpture goes up in Detroit, turning heads, sparking laughter

#midwestagendaartnews #sculpture #donaldtrump #detroit

KC2026 offering $10K prize for Kansas City’s official FIFA World Cup 2026 poster

#midwestagendaartnews #kcworldcup2026 #fifa #soccer #art

Major fashion exhibition featuring Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray opens at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (MI)

#midwestagendaartnews #fashion #art #design #alexandermcqueen

Open calls at Kinhouse Art (Fort Wayne, IN) offer two exhibitions and a residency

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #exhibition #residency #kinhouseart #indiana #fortwayne

Strankinja Bread Project, A Social Practice Project with Local Grains at H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City MO)

#midwestagendaartnews #socialpractice #grains #local #strankinjabreadkproject

How artists are helping US communities prepare for environmental emergencies

#midwestagendaartnews #fema #artists #environment

Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Launches International Design Competition for Major Expansion

#midwestagendaartnews #museum #kansascity #expansion

Artist Kara Walker’s work examining race in the antebellum South comes to Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis MN)

#midwestagendaartnews #karawalker #exhibition #race #power #violence #history

Exhibit of big-name ceramists, workshops will lead to Empty Bowls Wichita (KS) fundraiser

#midwestagendaartnews #ceramics #emptybowlsproject #reubensaundersgallery #wichita #kansas

Richard Pettibone, Master of the Artistic Miniature, Dies at 86

#midwestagendaartnews #richardpettitbone #painter #sculptor #reproduction

Milwaukee’s (WI) $88,000 art car has broken down a month after it was launched

#midwestagendaartnews #art #recklessdriving #milwaukee #artsfunding

Philomene Bennett, a founding mother of Kansas City’s contemporary art scene, dies at 89

#midwestagendaartnews #contemporaryart #kansascity #painting #kansascityartistscoalition

Wisconsin’s dismal arts funding ignores what an economic engine public art can be

#midwestagendaartnews #wisconsin #publicart #economics

Has a US law created to safeguard artists’ work backfired?

#midwestagendaartnews #art #artist #landart #marymiss #iowa #artistprotection

South Dakota artist Adam Grimm wins 2024 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest

#midwestagendaartnews #art #duck #stamp #conservation #wetlands

Pilot program giving Minnesota artists guaranteed income extended to five years

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #income #minnesota

Project for Empty Space’s Mobile Exhibition Is Going Cross-Country for Reproductive Rights
“BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY)” will be in Kansas City, MO September 21

#midwestagendaartnews #mobileexhibition #reproductivejustive #bodyfreedom #queerliberation #barbarakruger #transjoy

Derek Boshier, British Pop Artist and Bowie Collaborator, Dies at 87

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #british #derekboshier #davidbowie #theclash #biritshpopart

Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced for Defrauding Elderly Collectors

#midwestagendaartnews #art #photograph #fraud #anseladams

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