In 2000, Muncie was experiencing revitalization of its downtown district. With not one downtown art gallery in existence, the city’s urban renewal developers welcomed such a venue, and helped initially to pay the gallery’s rent in the Mitchell Building, 301 South Walnut Street.
In the Spring of 2006, the Mitchell Building obtained a new owner and it became necessary for the gallery to either find a place they could afford to move to, or close its doors permanently by August. Jack’s Camera generously offered space in their building, at 308 E. Main Street, that could be converted to a gallery. By September, 2006, Mitchell Place Gallery reopened its doors four and a half blocks away, as Gallery 308.
