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• “New Developments in Rural Arts & Culture” panel including Matthew Fluharty, hosted by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• Anthropocene Vernacular series of events along the Mississippi River and its communities documented by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
• “Exchange Programs Think Beyond Urban vs. Rural” on the Rural-Urban Exchange published in The Christian Science Monitor, via PEW Charitable Trust’s Stateline series
• “Three Days in the Delta with Rural Generation” in the ArtPlace America blog
• Matthew Fluharty presents with Jennifer Colten on The American Bottom and Monsanto Town projects at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene River Midway Meeting
• “A rural renaissance: How small towns are leading the way in creative placemaking” published in Creative Exchange
• “A Piece of Mississippi: Retrospective on Rural Generation,” published on the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design blog
• “Rural Abundance and Prosperity through the Arts,” on the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies blog
• Savannah Barrett presents at the Kennedy Center’s Arts Summit 2019
• Matthew Fluharty presents on The American Bottom project at the Weisman Art Museum for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene River initiative
• “Can Exchange Programs Help Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide?” feature on the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange in CityLab
• The American Bottom project featured in Art in the America
• “America, Meet America: Getting Past Our Toxic Partisanship” feature on the Kentucky Rural Urban Exchange in The Wall Street Journal
• Matthew Fluharty’s essay “How the Rural Could Save Modern Art” published in To Make a Public: Temporary Art Review 2011-2016
• Matthew Fluharty Tedx talk on Art of the Rural and growing up in Appalachia
• “Can The Arts Help Save Rural America?” feature on the 2016 Next Generation Summit
• Matthew Fluharty featured as a Change Agent in Americans for the Arts’ Arts Link publication
• Agriculture and the Arts: an interview with Savannah Barrett podcast from the Extension Reconsidered project
• Matthew Fluharty and Savannah Barrett present on the Year of the Rural Arts for the Rural Arts Happy Hour google chat
• Daily Yonder interview with Matthew Fluharty on the re-launch of AOTR
• Video of “Ways of Being” presentation by Matthew Fluharty at the Hand-in-Glove conference
• “Artists Shaking Up and Strengthening Communities in Rural America,” a commentary by Rachel Engh in Createquity
• “A Gathering and a Weaving: A View From The Rural Arts and Culture Summit,” Matthew Fluharty writing on the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works blog
• Createquity blog on the Rural Arts and Culture Map
• Al Cross writes in The Rural Blog on the debut of the Rural Arts and Culture Map
• “Profile: David Lundahl” Matthew Fluharty writing in the inaugural online issue of Rural America Contemporary Art
• “The State of the Rural Arts: Crisis, Change, and Opportunity,” video of a panel discussion including agrarian artist Nikiko Masumoto; Stephen Gong, the Executive Director of the Center for Asian American Media; Caron Atlas, Director of Arts & Democracy; Carlos Uriona, Co-Creator of Double Edge Theatre; and Katharine Pearson Criss, Senior Fellow of the Center for Rural Strategies
• Journal of American Folklore reviews Art of the Rural