Invisible Ground

30/04/2025

22/04/2025

It's been just about three years (!!) since our first Invisible Ground Immersive Historic Marker debuted at the former location of The Berry Hotel in Athens.

We now have 11 Immersive Historic Markers, with many more in production or early stages of development and several new ones arriving this summer. That app has gotten over 1,250 downloads! Our 16 podcast episodes have gotten over 13,000 listens in 48 states and 59 countries. Most importantly, we have gotten to work with so many incredible collaborators, partners, and organizations around the region. And we are just getting started.

You can support this work by contributing via the Patreon link below or a charitable donation to Invisible Ground through our fiscal agent and exhibition partner, the Southeast Ohio History Center. You can also listen to episodes, download the app, like posts, leave comments, and tell your friends.

Thanks to everyone who has been involved with the project or enjoyed it! Let's do three more years of this and make more cool stuff!

- Brian

https://www.patreon.com/c/invisibleground
www.findinvisibleground.com

immersive historic markers, documentary podcasts, and more

14/04/2025

Did you see the short documentary about Invisible Ground we made with our friends at Good Good Video?

Learn about Invisible Ground, an Athens, Ohio-based multimedia project that utilizes audio, augmented reality, visual elements, and place-based storytelling ...

07/04/2025

Ohio Humanities has supported Invisible Ground's work since the beginning—they were the first grant we got! Their existence is crucial to many incredible groups, people, and organizations around Ohio. These cuts devastate organizations and projects like mine, ultimately representing only a tiny amount of money in the federal budget.

Please contact your legislators and tell them to reinstate funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and all of the critical things that have been cut.

The Trump administration is slashing the National Endowment for the Humanities. Here's how Ohio is going to be affected.

03/04/2025

The National Endowment for the Humanities has supported Invisible Ground's work in the past and was crucial to our Immersive Historic Markers in Rendville, Shawnee, and Nelsonville at Stuart's Opera House.

Please add the cuts at the NEH to the list of things to mention when contacting your elected officials, not to mention others in this project's world, like deep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

We will continue to do the work we always do here at Invisible Ground. Let me know if you know any individual donors, businesses, or private foundations that would like to support a project like ours. It never hurts to try to ease some of my anxiety for the future.

The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.

01/04/2025

Thanks Visit Athens Ohio!

INTRODUCTION BY BRIAN KOSCHO Communities are built on the foundation of collective history. The stories of those who came before us and the power of t

29/03/2025

Congrats to Mount Zion Black Cultural Center on their beautiful new murals revealed today. Keith Wilde and all the volunteers did a great job on them!

Want to know more about this incredible place, which is central to the Black community of Athens and the Ohio River Valley? We have a whole podcast about it!

This episode is about the historic Mount Zion Baptist Church in Athens, Ohio, which is celebrating 150 years since the founding of its congregation. The church, the building, and the institution are a central part of the lives of the Black community in Athens County and beyond. A building that still...

21/03/2025

We need your help to support the work of Invisible Ground! You can contribute on our Patreon page for as low as $1 a month, or you can make a charitable contribution through our fiscal partner the Southeast Ohio History Center! Reach out if you want to do that.

We also are always looking for business underwriters, community partners, grant opportunities, and more. Reach out if you have a suggestion or would like to know more.

See our new documentary and learn about all we do:
youtu.be/GpDCagJzD5M

And there are lots of ways to help us for free that are important! Engage and share on social media, review and rate our app and the podcast, and tell your friends!

immersive historic markers, documentary podcasts, and more

20/03/2025

Check out our new documentary about the work of Invisible Ground, made by Brian Wiebe, and Good Good Video. Hope you love it as much as we do, and be sure to share it if you can!

Learn about Invisible Ground, an Athens, Ohio-based multimedia project that utilizes audio, augmented reality, visual elements, and place-based storytelling ...