

KOKOMO’S EMERGING MULTICULTURAL ART SCENE
By Maynard Eaton It was a First Friday extravaganza – a fluky convergence of the 95th anniversary of the Kokomo Art Association, the annual Artist Alley unveiling, the debut of ARTSAPALOOZA, Mayor Tyler Moore’s live painting performance, the new Artworks Gallery exhibition, and the MLK Commission’s first ever First Friday participation. The unofficial, yet omnipresent, theme of these synchronized events was multiculturalism. That’s why artist, J. C. Barnett III was holding c