INDIANAPOLIS — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Indianapolis will soon have two new public art pieces to honor Dr. King and Robert Kennedy, thanks to a new crowdfunding campaign. The campaign, sponsored by the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) and offered through the crowdfunding platform developed by Patronicity, is being run by the Kennedy King Memorial Initiative (KKMI).
If the campaign reaches its $50,000 goal by December 23, 2017, KKMI will receive a matching grant of $50,000 from IHCDA’s CreatINg Places program.
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The funding raised during this campaign will allow KKMI to install a large metal panel bearing a quote from Robert Kennedy’s speech in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968, the night that Dr. King was assassinated. A mural will also be installed on the exterior of the new Visitor’s Center going into the first floor of the Kennedy King Park Center.