It's an arts organization focused on supporting contemporary black and brown artists and opening doors to artists of color worldwide.

As senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports, Indigo Arts Alliance is doing all of this from its home in an unlikely place.

Maine. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

And we are walking on your poem. Yes, we are. But you want us to?

Yes, that's the point. A walk in the coastal Maine botanical gardens with poet Aresa White,

who was commissioned to create a work within this natural setting. Her response, a mirror poem or palindrome that can be read forwards

or backwards step by step. So you actually get to determine the pace of your reading and the pace

of your contemplation. Now an associate professor of English at Maine's Colby College,

White credits the Indigo Arts Alliance, where she was

an artist in residence, with helping her adjust to her new surroundings.

I moved here in 2018 from the San Francisco Bay Area, but originally from Brooklyn, New York,

and sort of left these huge communities, these major cities.

And in very diverse places.

Absolutely diverse in all sorts of like amazing ways.

And so there was that sense of isolation and Indigo Arts Alliance felt like a hub.

It is a home for me.

It gave me a way to connect to different artists throughout the state.

And so I felt like I had a place as a result.

Back this day at the Botanical Gardens in Booth Bay, Maine was part of a three-year partnership

with Indigo. Welcome everyone. Called Deconstructing the Boundaries, it involved artist talks, workshops in clay, and

beading, and discussions of public life today.

It's also brought new artworks to the gardens, including this sculpture called In The Voice

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