Local students taking part in Exhibit Columbus installations again

January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 John Clark

The Conversation Plinth at Bartholomew County Public Library during the previous Exhibit Columbus installations in August 2017. WRB photo.

This weekend will see the unveiling of designs for the Exhibit Columbus installations going up around the city in August.

Teams of professional architects and designers from around the world are taking part in the Miller Prize installations. They will be putting up the installations at the AT&T Facility, Columbus City Hall, the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library Plaza, Central Middle School and the Bartholomew County Courthouse Lawn.

But there will also be college teams and local students participating. Anne Surak, director of exhibitions for Exhibit Columbus explains that there will be six regional university teams, representing eight schools.

The university installations will be at North Christian Church, St Peters Lutheran Church, First Christian Church and an alley on Washington Street downtown.

There will also be local students taking part. Surak explains that she has been working with a local student design team since the start of the school year, including giving them a tour of the city and the students taking part in last fall’s symposium.

She said that participating students will be building their installations through the C4 program.

The design presentations will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at The Commons with the University Design Research Fellowship participants. The Miller Prize presentations will be from 2 to 4:30 p.m.