Significant Developments, LLC

10/25/2025

Are you experimenting with music and/or sound? Submit to perform or lead a workshop/conversation to Boundaries Move in Jackson Dec. 27th. Submissions due November 2nd - link to form in bio.

10/25/2025

📣Upcoming event: Indigenous Futurisms Seattle. This Native American Heritage Month, join us for Indigenous Futurisms - Seattle, an immersive, multi-sensory experience that brings together a vibrant community dedicated to imagining and building a brighter future. This intragenerational event will feature workshops, panels, and showcases, culminating in a celebratory dance party.

📆Saturday, November 15, 2025, 1 – 7 p.m.
🌎 North Seattle College
👉🏽 Learn more: https://www.indigenousfuturists.org/events-2-1
Free and open to the public.

ID: Event flyer with event information and images of Indigenous people drawn with futuristic glasses, art, and apparel.

10/10/2025

Would you like to be part of an event exploring and celebrating experimentation in music?

Boundaries Move is a free community symposium for performance, discussion, and celebration of experimentation in music being held Saturday, December 27, 2025 at The Arts Center of Mississippi. The goal of this event is to gather and build relationships among Mississippians who are curious about and tantalized by unconventional experiments in sound and musicality. The program will be built from community submissions ~ what do you imagine? We are accepting proposals for performances, panels, workshops, installations, participatory engagements, and presentations. There is no fee to submit and no compensation for participation.

Submissions are open October 10th - November 2nd, notifications by November 20th.

Submit your proposals! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDdmXkBipuGygTQJsxfcVOLqj3pNLzaezSUCtvhCardYX3IQ/viewform

10/24/2024

daniel johnson is leading a Look Closely and See program this Sunday, October 27th at 12:30pm. Join us at the Arts Center of Mississippi to view and reflect as a group the current exhibition It Takes a Village.

This program is all ages and accessible for the casual viewer and the connoisseur, the talker and the listener. Peel off from the group and merge back into the flow - this is relaxed, social art viewing for thoughtful, friendly people.

Stick around for Robin Martea's Artist Talk at 2pm!

05/16/2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Homegrown Utica Invites Artists to Participate in Local Festival

Homegrown Utica Fest will showcase the community’s local culture

May 15, 2024 – Homegrown Utica, led by local artists and community leaders, is inviting artists, performers, and local organizations to participate in their Homegrown Utica Fest on July 27. The festival, held on Utica’s Main Street, will highlight Utica’s relationship and culture around food and rural living through storytelling, mural-making, farming tables, visual art, music, and more.

All types of artists are invited to exhibit or sell their work, host interactive activities, or perform through dance, music, or other performances.

Homegrown Utica is a part of the national campaign Arts for EveryBody demonstrating how participation in the arts can lead to healthier people and communities. Utica, and 17 other sites, will premiere an array of participatory art projects on July 27 that draw on the theme of “No place like home.”

Artists interested in participating can visit homegrownutica.com/festival to learn more and fill out an interest form. To learn more about Utica’s connection with Arts for EveryBody, please visit artsforeverybody.org/utica-ms

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05/09/2024

Three opportunities for fun in Utica this Saturday!

- Come create a cool Mother's Day gift at the Evelyn Taylor Majure Utica Library at 1pm. Wendy Eddleman-Cooper will be leading a creative recipe card activity with stamps, stickers, and inks ~

- Learn about Homesteading for Resiliency with Felicia Bell of RD&S Farm at 10am at the Utica Community Center ~

- Join in public planning for Homegrown Utica Fest at 9am at the library!

10/23/2023

Talking to StoryMuse tomorrow 2 - 2:30pm CST on IG Live ~ my chance for a midday slowdown with tea is sometimes during school pick up, so watch me stream live from the McWillie Elementary carpool lane!

TOMORROW! Back with another IG Live and all steamed up about it. Please join me as I have Tea & Jam with Daniel Johnson of Significant Developments, LLC in Jackson, MS.

daniel is a multidisciplinary artist/performer drawing considerations and methodologies from their background as a parent, organizer, museum educator, and public historian. Read more at https://danieljohnsonmakesart.com/Info

You can join us on IG Live at the StoryMuse Instagram Page (Story_Muse) or on https://www.instagram.com/danieljohnson_is/.

Just in case you're fresh to what this is, I'm holding public conversations as part of my research for "I'm a Little Teapot," a performance and platform about the ongoing search for purpose, passion, power, and possibility I'll be building and hosting over the next year.

09/08/2023

08/29/2023

Mayors Press Conference yesterday following our Upcycle intervention alongside Capital City Alternative School, Fahrenheit Creative Group, and Solid Waste Division of City of Jackson. Special thanks to SD Change Agents Lucie Cooper and Tyler Tadlock for their support and collaboration in this project.

04/07/2021

At 2:10pm this Saturday, Significant Developments, CEO daniel johnson is presenting a paper virtually during the University of Mississippi History conference Navigating Chaos. His research focuses on the founding documents of the Free Southern Theater. The Free Southern Theater was founded as a community-engaged theater (by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Free Press) in the lead up to Freedom Summer in 1964.

Access links to his paper and free conference registration on the info page of his website.

daniel johnson is an artist, educator, organizer, and dad working in community in the United States South East region. Focused on agency, equity, and the formation...