By Mark Ambrogi
Nickel Plate Arts is doing its part to beautify Noblesville.
The arts organization, in collaboration with the city of Noblesville, started a Community Mural Project in July.
“We volunteered to do a mural that will hang on that fence in the pocket park area right next to the railroad tracks on the northwest corner of the square,” said Aili McGill, director of Nickel Plate Arts, 107 S. 8th St. “The city saw it as opportunity to beautify a space that lots of people walk through and by as well as a place to incorporate public art.”
The mural will consist of tiles designed by the public.
McGill said there will be opportunities to design titles at the Southwest Quad Proud Heritage Picnic from noon to 4 p.m. on Oct. 3 at Southside Park.
There is a $5 suggested donation for painting a tile that will help with the installation of the mural.
“There are six titles that will go in a tile mosaic,” McGill said.
Kavita Singh, Nickel Plate Arts program coordinator, designed the tiles so there is a circle motif.
“Every tile has a portion of a circle inside so we can match them up anyway we want to and it will all flow together,” McGill said.
McGill said the pocket park will be unveiled on Oct. 2.
“We don’t know when we will finish our tile project,” McGill said. “We’re just going to keep going until we have the funding pulled together to install it.
She said she anticipates it will be installed by the spring or summer of 2016. More than 100 titles have been painted so far.
“We don’t know what the final design will be like,” she said. “We’re going to try to include as many tiles as possible. It’s also possible we’ll make other community murals for other community spaces in a similar fashion. We’re going to as work hard to get everybody’s tile in there in some way.”
For more information, visit nickelplatearts.org/community-mural-project/.
