After nearly 40 years, Detroit’s Heidelberg Project is still confounding and educating visitors. With your back to Detroit’s small Heidelberg St., it looks like the McDoughall-Hunt neighborhood is slowly being swallowed by […]
Arts and Culture
Painting Pianos for the Public
In early May, Des Moines gets a little more musical. Colorfully painted pianos pop up around town. There’s one downtown at Cowles Commons. Another by the Des Moines River at local music […]
Arts and Culture
Ditch the Day Job
Elena Gatti’s rise to success is one that every 25-year-old woman dreams of. It included the following: Harry Styles and leaving her day job to pursue her hobby full-time. Just a few […]
Arts and Culture
Dreaming of First Place
Kira Sabin (she/they) spends a year preparing for one contest. She researches, studies, photographs, sketches and paints one subject, and one subject only. Her goal? To win the only federally funded art […]