The show must go on – at least, for the Mountain to River (M2R)
TrailFest’s Fence Art Gallery.
The festival is still slated for Saturday, May 9, although it will
look (and sound) a little different than in years past. The
immersive arts festival that travels through downtown Marietta
each year will still incorporate its visual arts displays and activities, just
without performance art this year, in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
During TrailFest, public art is scattered throughout the city. Murals
decorate the sides of many buildings, sculptures beautify the Marietta Square
and nearby parks and a fine art and photography installation lines the fence
alongside the train tracks. This year, the latter of those art mediums, the fence
gallery, will be traveling Cobb County.
The Marietta Arts Council conceived the idea of the Fence Art Gallery
while scouring the town for public art site selections in 2018. When they
walked beside a very long fence that lines the trail into and through the
30 COBB LIFE | MAY 2020
Leaving
A TRAIL OF ART
T R A I L F E S T ’ S F E N C E A RT G A L L E RY H I T S T H E ROA D T H I S SUMMER
WRITTEN BY AMANDA MORRIS | PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARIETTA ARTS COUNCIL
Last year’s Fence Art Gallery
brought fine art and photography to
the fence line of the M2R Trail for
TrailFest. This year, the gallery will
visit each of Cobb’s five cities.