Arts & Culture

Audra Sergel is a queer woman in her late 40s who's an active member of the community through her role as the artistic director of the Quorus, an LGBTQ+ choir. She spoke about the importance of love, support and music in hard times.

In this episode of Behind the Issue, Editor-in-Chief Cayli Yanagida spoke with writer and opera singer Katie Grawitch about how Landlocked Opera is redefining what opera means in mid-Missouri.

Nightjar Arts Collective teaches creative writing classes on a sliding scale for accessibility and hosts events around art and activism.

Editor-in-chief Cayli Yanagida caught up with writer Tyler White about how various arts and culture organizations in mid-Missouri are keeping on in spite of federal funding cuts.

Even as cosplay events are increasing in popularity — and in cost — mid-Missouri creatives are working to keep the hobby accessible and affordable in the region.

Freedom’s Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, will “cease to exist” if Congress approves proposed legislation to defund National Heritage Areas, the organization’s spokesman says.

Artists from across the Midwest find connection and stability through art shows such as Columbia’s Art in the Park. Multiple visiting artists discuss what the Columbia art community means to them and how it inspires them to stay creative.

Editor-in-chief Olivia Maillet checks in with contributing writer Sophie Ayers about the Midnight Hoops League in Columbia. Scotty “Doc” Williams Sr., Rufus Broadus and Tracy Edwards started the league in 1989 to keep at-risk kids off the street.

As University of Missouri seniors graduated Sunday, The All-American Rejects played the latest in a series of pop-up shows they’ve been doing—at people’s houses.

Lorry Myers spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Centralia Public Library in November. Myers is a fourth-generation resident and a columnist for the Centralia Fireside Guard. While she loves the community aspect of the town, she says she’s worried about how specific tax boundaries are affecting public infrastructure, like the Centralia Public Library.