A collaborative group of business owners in Lima wanted to showcase the talented musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs in the area with their second annual Legacy Arts Street Party.

They consider themselves as an incubator space, a place where someone interested in starting a “creative” business can bounce ideas around.

The up and coming Legacy Arts collaborated with Homies Productions and Artspace Lima for  the first ever Winter Fest in Downtown Lima tonight. 

A night of music and art is just the start of what Legacy Arts is giving to the community. The Winterfest included four different musical performances along with a live painting, and visuals from Homies Productions. All of the proceeds from the event will go toward the Legacy Arts-Artspace/Lima Scholarship fund that is given to low income families to take classes at Artspace.

Partners in the Legacy Arts collective spoke with the Lima Rotary Club about the progress that they've made on their location on Main Street. Back on September 23rd, Shop for Good officially took up half of the floor space at Alter Ego Comics as part of the plan to create a space for the arts in Lima to come together under one roof. Rustgaze Records and The Meeting Place are also part of the partnership. A recording space for Rustgaze Records is in the works for the building. Once the first floor is completed, Legacy Arts will be looking at working on the rest of the space on the upper floors.

Alter Ego Comics will no longer be moving locations, but things will soon look different at their Main Street store. Alter Ego is partnering with The Meeting Place and Shop for Good, as well as Rustgaze Records to bring a unique shopping experience to the Lima area. Shop for Good will take up half of the current Alter Ego floor space, with a coffee kiosk by The Meeting Place. Building owner Marc Bowker says they hope to add a small performance venue at the back of the building along with studio space for Rustgaze but are still in still in the planning stages at this time.