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# West to East

Discover how artists across America have been inspired by their communities and the places they call home.

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

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? 

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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.

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