A Welcome to 2026

January 15, 2026 - By Kevin Lindsey

In 2026, we will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the United States, the fight for liberty, equality, and justice has had a long and complex history.

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Restorative Arts Summit: Pathways to Healing, Re-Entry and Community

December 8, 2025 - By Isabel Nelson

With the support of the Minnesota Humanities Center, local nonprofit Art from the Inside recently hosted the inaugural Restorative Arts Summit: Pathways to Healing, Re-Entry, and Community on Saturday, November 15. The day-long gathering was for individuals and organizations that are invested in the arts as a healing response to incarceration; the goal was to build and strengthen relationships across modalities and contexts.

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National Arts & Humanities Month

October 7, 2025 - By Kevin Lindsey

When Congress created the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 1965, America was in a moment of great change. We were in the midst of a cold war on the world stage, the advance of computer technology, the space race was pushing human imagination beyond the earth, and the Civil Rights Movement was fueling debates about justice, identity, and freedom in classrooms and living rooms throughout the nation and world.

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The Somali Bilingual Book Project

August 28, 2025 - By Leslie Carnegie-Hilde

The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) generously donated copies of the book “Travels of Igal Shidad” to Minnesota Hands & Voices for an event hosted for families with children who are deaf or are hard of hearing (DHH). “Travels of Igal Shidad” is one of four traditional Somali folktales in MHC’s…

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We Are Family

December 6, 2024 - By Kevin Lindsey

Whenever I hear the song “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, in my mind, I see my mom in front of a park bench singing “I’ve got all my sisters with me” with her sisters in matching red t-shirts with their nicknames on their back at the annual Wells Family reunion.

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