What are you watching in 2022?

Last year, we tracked progress and challenges across several issues with consequences for rural Americans, including the the cost of and access to broadband, the child tax credit and earned income tax credit expansions, and Covid-19 vaccination rates.

What issues are you tracking or working on as we enter 2022? We want to hear what you think we should be following and sharing about with our followers in the Rural Assembly. 

Know someone making a difference for their local communities or nationally for rural people? Let us know who they are — we would love to share their story. 

Drawing Resilience: Maureen Hearty

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.”

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