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Missouri Humanities Missouri Humanities is a state-wide nonprofit that explores history, civics, and culture through community partnerships and public programming.

The Missouri Humanities Council was founded in 1971 as an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It acts as a catalyst for cultural organizations, helping them to connect with people and communities in dynamic ways that spark the deep excitement for story and learning that builds character, intellect and understanding. Learn more at www.mohumanities.org.

Spots are filling fast for our Veterans Writing Workshop. ✍️On Friday, November 6, Missouri Poet Laureate Justin Hamm le...
10/20/2026

Spots are filling fast for our Veterans Writing Workshop. ✍️

On Friday, November 6, Missouri Poet Laureate Justin Hamm leads The Humble Apartment of the Chest, a two-hour poetry workshop for veterans and their loved ones at the Society Conference in Springfield.

No poetry experience is needed. Write about whatever you choose, and share only if you want to.

Your registration includes:
📝 The workshop
🎟️ Missouri Folklore Society Conference registration
📖 A copy of "Odysseus & the Oar" by Adam Magers

📅 Friday, Nov. 6 | 2-4 PM
📍 University Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Springfield, MO

Seating is limited, so reserve your spot early at missourihumanities.formstack.com/forms/veteranswritingworkshop

📊 Voting update! Check out the graphic to see which towns are leading the race for Small Town Showcase 2027!With 52 Miss...
10/19/2026

📊 Voting update! Check out the graphic to see which towns are leading the race for Small Town Showcase 2027!

With 52 Missouri communities competing for just five featured spots, every vote counts, and the standings can change fast. Want to see your favorite town move up? Share this post with friends and family and rally your community to vote!

🗳️ Learn More and Vote: https://mohumanities.org/small-town-showcase/
🗓️ Voting closes December 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM CST

The five towns with the most votes will each work with Missouri Humanities on a short film and podcast episode. Keep voting, and keep sharing! Questions? Email [email protected].

It's Humanities Councils Week.From October 19–23, 2026, we’re teaming up with the Federation of State Humanities Council...
10/19/2026

It's Humanities Councils Week.

From October 19–23, 2026, we’re teaming up with the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Mellon Foundation to celebrate how Humanities Councils bring people together.

As one of 56 state and jurisdictional councils in the U.S., Missouri Humanities helps make space for people to gather around art, humanities, and culture—right in our own community.

For example, we were thrilled to partner with Kansas City Public Library and Mid-Continent Public Library to host the fourth annual Heartland Book Fest. This free event brough the joy of reading to the spotlight in Kansas City, providing writing workshops, author talks, and creative activities to Missourians of all ages.

These in-person experiences invite us to learn, share, and discover something new
together.

Follow along throughout the week as we share how Councils make connection possible.

🎥 Last week, the Missouri Humanities team was in Perryville at the American Tractor Museum filming one of our Small Town...
10/16/2026

🎥 Last week, the Missouri Humanities team was in Perryville at the American Tractor Museum filming one of our Small Town Showcase 2026 community videos, and we can’t wait to share what we captured!

But while we edit Perryville's video, we need your help to choose the next five towns! 52 Missouri communities are hoping to be part of Small Town Showcase 2027, and your vote decides who gets their own short film and podcast episode with Missouri Humanities.

✅ Vote here: https://forms.gle/HStooGzWXTDr2ubt6
🗓️ Voting closes December 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM CST

Which town will be next? Cast your vote and help us tell their story! Questions? Email [email protected].

What stories do you keep in your chest?Missouri Poet Laureate Justin Hamm is leading "The Humble Apartment of the Chest,...
10/14/2026

What stories do you keep in your chest?

Missouri Poet Laureate Justin Hamm is leading "The Humble Apartment of the Chest," a two-hour poetry workshop for veterans and their loved ones. You’ll get guided writing time, space to put memory, loss, and love on the page, and an optional chance to share. No poetry experience is needed.

Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 | 2-4 p.m.
University Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Springfield, MO

Your registration includes the workshop, admission to the Missouri Folklore Society Conference, and a copy of Adam Magers' "Odysseus & the Oar."

Sign up now at missourihumanities.formstack.com/forms/veteranswritingworkshop

Our community quilt is growing, and you can still be a part of it! Every Missourian has a story, and together they make ...
10/13/2026

Our community quilt is growing, and you can still be a part of it!

Every Missourian has a story, and together they make something beautiful. Donate to our Stitched Together campaign to support the humanities, customize your own virtual quilt patch, and help expand literacy programs, veteran writing workshops, and local history preservation across the state. On top of bragging rights, every donor is automatically entered to win a handcrafted quilt made right here in Missouri.

💖Give today at mohumanities.org/quilt

✨ The Spark! host sites have been selected! ✨We're thrilled to share the communities bringing Spark! Places of Innovatio...
10/09/2026

✨ The Spark! host sites have been selected! ✨

We're thrilled to share the communities bringing Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian exhibition, to Missouri!

Spark! explores how people, place, and circumstance come together to drive creativity, problem-solving, and innovation in rural communities. Swipe through the photos to find your Missouri host sites!

Each host will create its own exhibit and community programming, inviting neighbors to reflect on what makes their community Spark and to see themselves as innovators.

Congratulations to our host organizations! 🎉

👉 Find dates and details: mohumanities.org/traveling-exhibits

Spark! Places of Innovation is a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in partnership with the Museum on Main Street program and state humanities councils.

Every judge on the Missouri Supreme Court got there through the Missouri Plan.Since 1940, Missouri's nonpartisan court p...
10/08/2026

Every judge on the Missouri Supreme Court got there through the Missouri Plan.

Since 1940, Missouri's nonpartisan court plan has put merit first: a commission reviews candidates, the governor appoints from a short list, and voters decide whether judges stay on the bench.

That system opened the door for the Honorable Ann Covington, the court's first woman judge in 1989. This set the trajectory for today's historic female majority.

Not In Our Wildest Dreams tells their stories. Now streaming FREE on H-Tv 🎬, learn more about the path here at h-tv.org/programs/niowd

Have you ever wondered what it actually takes to turn a digital design into a real, physical quilt? For Kristen Reed Ede...
10/07/2026

Have you ever wondered what it actually takes to turn a digital design into a real, physical quilt? For Kristen Reed Edens of Creating Quilts & Eden's Heirlooms, it starts with fabric spread across her studio table in Arnold, MO, and ends with something beautiful.

She's spent decades restoring antique quilts, piecing together custom memory quilts, and studying quilting (as a historian would), through the American Quilt Study Group. Now she's using that expertise to create two original quilts for our Stitched Together campaign: one that will stay with Missouri Humanities, and one that's headed home with a donor, and that donor could be YOU!

Want the full story behind the stitches? visit mohumanities.org/meet-kristen

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