Welcome to “A Canopy of Arrivals,” a data arts installation that explores over a century of immigration in Toledo, Ohio from 1840 to present day.

American Soundscapes is a curated installation that explores America’s rich musical heritage, state by state. Created in partnership with  the Smithsonian  and  America250 , it was displayed on Capitol Hill at  Congressional Record 2026  on May 13, 2026. This bipartisan event showcased how music and the arts create space for connection, cooperation and common purpose.

The Asian in Ohio project presents an interactive gallery of Asian American individuals who have made Ohio their home. It serves as an open archive depicting another side of the American story — often whitewashed and rendered invisible. It unveils the heterogeneous and diverse facets of the Midwest. It requests our reader to participate, debate, learn and build the dialogue around how each of us really connects with and relates to one another.

The Battleground Breakdown Project looks at the history and demographics that have shaped the Midwest’s electoral politics

City Flows is an immersive physical and digital exhibition designed by Midstory with the University of Toledo’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as part of their educational augmented reality project funded in part by the Ohio Environmental Education Fund of the Ohio EPA.

As climate change becomes an increasingly important issue in our nation and world, how might Ohio be uniquely impacted — both its landscape and its communities? In this series entitled “Colors of Climate Change,” we explore the current situation in Ohio from perspectives that shed light on how climate impacts us all and how we are impacting climate in return.

In April of 2020, Midstory’s data team pivoted all its operations to bring important and timely COVID-19 data to the public in a time of crisis and uncertainty. We began this project with a simple desire to better understand the current pandemic situation and to keep Ohioans and Midwesterners informed with posts focused on counts of cases, deaths and hospitalizations locally and regionally. 

With|Standing is a mini-documentary series and exhibition featuring six architectural sites of transformation and adaptive reuse from across the state of Ohio. Through these sites, we examine how Ohioans are re-imagining the future of our state’s built heritage shaped by the forces of history, industry, migration and more.