Main Street Marion has received a $5,000 grant from the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) and the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC).
Main Street Marion’s proposal is one of 18 funded projects in the state.
Thanks to the grant, MSM will create a collaborative public art piece in downtown Marion’s southern alleyway on the Courthouse Square.
“The vision for the installation is to highlight the community’s growing self-recognition as an arts community and to connect people from the Courthouse Square to the Fifth Street Commons,” MSM said in a news release. “The installation will highlight the Marion community values – evoking an experience of connection with the place and personality of the community through both a visionary quality and an on-the-ground practicality, and creating a passageway that beckons people to inhabit both vital spaces and to linger in the in-between.”
Design Committee Chair and local life coach for Circles of Grant County and Lark’s Song, Emily Hathway said, “The process of bringing all the partners and creative elements together for this grant proposal was so encouraging to me. It showed me in a tangible way how much abundance, commitment, and artistry we already have within our community. Since one of our community values is Common Identity, my hope for this project as it takes shape is that it will be both grounding and inspiring for all of us as we continue to acknowledge and deepen our identity as a connected community.”
