Community leader and holistic healer Gloria Alatorre. Photo credit: Joy Davis Ripley.
Through support for artists, culture bearers, artisans, and storytellers – alongside the local organizations that support them – Spillway works to create the conditions for engaged projects that honor diverse lived experience, deepen regional relationships, and build rural-urban networks of knowledge-sharing and exchange that will create opportunities for artists, culture bearers, and artisans to thrive, connect with new colleagues and audiences.
Spillway is organized by Art of the Rural, in collaboration with Honoring Dakota, the Winona County Historical Society, and Engage Winona in Winona, Minnesota; photographer Joseph J. Allen and Manoomin Arts Initiative in Mahnomen, MN and White Earth Nation; artist Faye Dant and Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center in Hannibal, Missouri; community leader Roberta Rogers and the Historical Society of Brooklyn, Illinois, with architect Alicia Ajayi; the artists, culture bearers, and writers of the Crossings field school in the St. Louis region; and The American Bottom Project in the East St. Louis region.
Applications for the fellowship are open May 7 - June 11. Learn more and apply here, or visit artoftherural.org/fellowship.
With over a hundred photos collected by G. Faye Dant, Hannibal’s Invisibles tells the incredible story of the Black community in this small Missouri town, giving voice to a history that has been marginalized far too long.
In collaboration with Engage Winona, essays and biographies from regional artists and creative leaders, with a focus on place & community-building.
Hakikta (“to look back“ in Dakota) presents an overview of the thirty-year career of Joseph J. Allen, on view at the Winona County History Center, from March 16 - June 9, 2024.
A collaborative community space located in Winona, Minnesota that presented arts and culture as a platform for community problem-solving and intercultural exchange.
Through both an extensive digital resource and The American Bottom Gazette regional print publication, this long-term project invites scholars, activists, artists, educators, and citizens to collaborate towards telling the complicated history of the 65-mile floodplain to the east of St. Louis.
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