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It's not every day that lifelong Wisconsin farmers take time out during the frenetic harvest season to do pirouettes and turns in their tractors like so many John Deere Baryshnikovs. [...]

Maurice Cox, the former planning director of the city of Detroit, remembers the first time Matthew Naimi wandered into his office in paint-splattered overalls in 2018, with fingernail polish, a [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown On a spring morning nearly a decade ago, Leigh Magar was out walking rural Johns Island, off Charleston, S.C., with her 'snake stick,' a wooden cane [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. 'It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,' one [...]

The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. ''It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,'' one master artisan says. Just [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown The artist Jordan Weber's queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor. The East Canfield Village neighborhood of Detroit is [...]

The artist Jordan Weber's queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor. The East Canfield Village neighborhood of Detroit is not the most likely [...]

Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at her loom, on one of the wooden platforms that boost [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown The Art Shanty Projects opened to crowds 10,000-strong on a frozen lake in Minneapolis. But after the first zany weekend, March-like temperatures set in. It's not [...]

The Art Shanty Projects opened to crowds 10,000-strong on a frozen lake in Minneapolis. But after the first zany weekend, March-like temperatures set in. It's not every art installation that [...]

There is no word for art in the Lakota language. But the power of art, in every facet of life, has drawn a boisterous group of moccasin beaders, painters, regalia [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, [...]

The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and [...]

The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and [...]

On a glorious evening recently, the runner Markelle Taylor -- otherwise known as ''Markelle the Gazelle''-- entered the dark sally port and crenelated towers of a place he was once [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown In a sea change, artisans and leaders from Native communities were invited to be curators, offering a window onto the intangible and personal dimensions of Pueblo [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown An innovative E.V. ride-sharing program is bringing low-cost clean transportation to an agricultural town in California's Central Valley. Others are following suit. Three mornings a week, [...]

An innovative E.V. ride-sharing program is bringing low-cost clean transportation to an agricultural town in California's Central Valley. Others are following suit. Three mornings a week, Herminia Ibarra makes her [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown Lesley Lokko, its first curator of African descent, plans an ambitious exploration of the continent's impact on the globe, while coping with visa frustrations for her [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown Buoyed by a $2.3 million grant, the archive hopes increased visibility on the first-person accounts of incarcerated people can serve as a road map for policy [...]

Buoyed by a $2.3 million grant, the archive hopes increased visibility on the first-person accounts of incarcerated people can serve as a road map for policy reforms. At an age [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown On a walking safari in Zambia, a writer traded animal locator apps and spine-jostling game drives for a slow and sensuous experience in which the lore [...]

Alwin Jacob Smith became a free man last summer after being locked up for 21 years because of what he calls ''my little old rocky past'' -- most notably, robbery [...]

From San Bernardino, Calif., and Aurora, Colo., to Orlando, Fla., and Newtown, Conn., sites of memory honor those killed in gun violence, and survivors. Sandra Mendoza picked a forest green [...]

KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT, Canada -- Just 125 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, in a hamlet etched into an icescape of rock and snow, a tiny figure clutching worn colored pencils [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT, Canada - Just 125 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, in a hamlet etched into an icescape of rock and snow, a tiny figure [...]

BOSTON -- Out of all the runners in the first wave of the Boston Marathon on Monday, there was one lean, muscular marathoner from Northern California with skinny ankles for [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown In his Brooklyn studio, the El Salvador-born artist Guadalupe Maravilla got ready to activate 'Disease Thrower #0,' the latest in his acclaimed series of sculptures that [...]

In his Brooklyn studio, the El Salvador-born artist Guadalupe Maravilla got ready to activate ''Disease Thrower #0,'' the latest in his acclaimed series of sculptures that deploy the powers of [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown Two exhibitions highlight stories of Indigenous bondage in southern Colorado, in an effort to grapple with the lasting trauma. FORT GARLAND, Colo. - On a bitter, [...]

Two exhibitions highlight stories of Indigenous bondage in southern Colorado, in an effort to grapple with the lasting trauma. FORT GARLAND, Colo. -- On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue [...]

Women who went to prison for killing their abusive partners are starting over at Home Free, an apartment complex created by design volunteers in San Francisco. Nestled on her Chesterfield [...]

Alan Michelson, a Mohawk artist, explores long-ignored aspects of American history and exploitation of Indigenous landscapes. His work at MoMA PS1 fuses modern media and Native song. To get to [...]

The country's most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf. CHATHAM, N.Y. -- [...]

They escaped traumatic circumstances in Myanmar and now live in harsh conditions. But refugees are creating murals drawn from their flourishing cultural traditions, reborn in Bangladesh camps. Before he fled [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown They escaped traumatic circumstances in Myanmar and now live in harsh conditions. But refugees are creating murals drawn from their flourishing cultural traditions, reborn in Bangladesh [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown In Maine, inmates are growing vegetables and making meals from scratch to replace the deadly diets they have long been served. Of the seemingly endless tally [...]

Members of the national Women of Color Quilters Network draw on personal experiences of injustice, turning their needlework into symbols of liberation, resistance and empowerment. Peggie Hartwell, a fourth-generation quilter [...]

Susan Burton, an advocate for formerly incarcerated women, is racing against the clock to shelter those freed early because of the surge of coronavirus cases in prisons. Dana Moore arrived [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown For over 30 years, Marvin and Frances Martinez have risen with the sun to drive from their home at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico [...]

For over 30 years, Marvin and Frances Martinez have risen with the sun to drive from their home at the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico to the centuries-old Palace [...]

Vicente Martinez, 18, was apprehensive the first time he visited the former drug house in Syracuse, N.Y. The building had been transformed into the Center for Court Innovation's peacemaking program, [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown Vicente Martinez, 18, was apprehensive the first time he visited the former drug house in Syracuse, N.Y. The building had been transformed into the Center for [...]

HINDMAN, KY. -- The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known [...]

The first recipient of the $100,000 prize will be announced in 2021, the centennial of Ms. Oberlander's birth. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is widely regarded as the grande dame of landscape [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown PASO ROBLES, Calif. - This state is rife with roadside attractions, from the colossal drive-through redwood trees off Route 101 to the historic Wigwam Motel on [...]

PASO ROBLES, Calif. -- This state is rife with roadside attractions, from the colossal drive-through redwood trees off Route 101 to the historic Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in San [...]

Byline: Patricia Leigh Brown The morning after he completed his first Boston Marathon, Markelle Taylor was sitting at a boisterous watering hole in the South End trading war stories. He [...]

The morning after he completed his first Boston Marathon, Markelle Taylor was sitting at a boisterous watering hole in the South End trading war stories. He kibitzed with a couple [...]