Announcing Rural Assembly Everywhere 2025
May 7, 2025
By Madeline MatsonYou never know when old skills will come in handy. A month into my new job, I found myself not in my office,
By Madeline MatsonYou never know when old skills will come in handy. A month into my new job, I found myself not in my office,
We talk to leaders in Texas and Washington state about their experiences with disaster preparedness, mutual aid, and the ways they work to strengthen their communities.
By Madeline Matson, Rural Assembly Director In the mid-1990s, a group of about a dozen kindergarteners left the white schoolhouse and crossed the quiet side
Rural women are finding a place to connect and share ideas at Morning Connections.
Whitney Kimball Coe reflects on her years as director of the Rural Assembly.
Rural Assembly welcomes Madeline Matson as new director.
Willmar and Winona, Minn., are two rural towns that welcome and celebrate the immigrant experience.
Read the Rural Assembly’s 2024 Annual Report.
The show examines the past, present, and future of the oyster, its home in the Willapa Bay, and how the oyster has shaped local communities
Maureen Hearty transforms objects, space, and community, seeing art as a tool for action, education, and opportunity. The majority of her community-based work today is on the eastern plains of Colorado, considered one of the most sparsely populated areas in the United States. In Joes, Colorado (pop. 78), she is activating space using art, music, and the collection of story. In 2020, Maureen and her friend Kristin Stoltz were awarded an NEA grant for a project titled “Arts for a Prairie Seas: Farming Fluxus.”
