“As we've documented other creative placemaking and public art programs across the country through our journalistic and marketing work, we've been given front-row access to some of the most brilliant brains in the space who have been kind enough to mentor us in our own art journey,” Kristin said. “Our interest in public art and how it transforms the environment naturally dovetailed into the community work we were doing.” Kristin grew up in Coffee County and moved back with Scott from California in 2011. Kristin and Scott lived in Manchester for eight years, in an 1800s Victorian home, and spent those years restoring the house. Now they live in Tullahoma. “We loved being on a walkable street just a block from the square, and we saw what the square could be,” Kristin said. “But like many downtowns in rural regions, it had seen better days – the building of state highways in the 1960s and the subsequent mall culture of the 1980s stripped a lot of downtowns of their locally owned character. Nearly half the buildings were unoccupied when we moved into the Victorian. The whole square needed a facelift, including our house.”
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