Current Show
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Making a Garden of Strange Fruit
This exhibition is intended to prototype Marion Legacy, a site of remembrance and contemplation acknowledging the 1930 lynching of James Cameron, Thomas Shipp, and Abraham S. Smith. The project is by Marion-born artist Samuel Levi Jones and his collaborators LAA Office and Sam Van Aken. Making a Garden of Strange Fruit was previously featured at the Chicago Cultural Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial:
THIS IS A REHEARSAL in 2023/24.
This installation will be available for the public to view from February 21st to July 1st of 2025.
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Work by the Bored Board
Boredom is fertile ground for creativity. In our overstimulated environments, our minds rarely have the luxury of enough mental space for inspiration to take shape as art. This is compounded in the general expectation of an administrative board, where we often expect participation to be boring and bureaucratic. Instead, this show features our Marion Arts Commission board members' creative expression generated in spaces of contemplation and insight. Through their discipline as makers who often have “day jobs” conducting work for other businesses, they still find time to craft highly skilled art to share with the community. We hope this exhibition staves off your own boredom, and perhaps inspires you to take action when boredom strikes.
Join us for our reception with the board on January 18th, from 7 pm - 9 pm.
Previous Shows
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
MAC Gala
The artwork currently on display comes from the donations of artwork from various accomplished Grant County artists for the purpose of fundraising at the Gala. The Marion Arts Commission and the buyers of the art have graciously allowed it to remain up for the public to view until the end of the exhibition, November 21st.
The MAC Gala strives to celebrate the arts in our community while also paving the way forward by fundraising for the future. This event also highlights the Kennedy Art Center’s one-year anniversary of making art visible.
The Marion Arts Commission is dedicated to supporting the local government through the transformative power of the arts. By fostering creativity, unity, and positive change, MAC aims to contibute to the cultureal enrichment and redevelopment goals of the City of Marion.
