Exhibit Columbus: New curatorial partners meeting the community

The Landmark Columbus Foundation has announced the team of seven partner curators who will lead the fifth cycle of the Columbus Exhibition.

These curatorial partners form the core of the curatorial team and are responsible for creating and advancing the theme of this Columbus exhibition cycle.

Richard McCoy, founding executive director, called the announcement a “landmark event.”

“We are thrilled to have such an inspiring group of curators for the fifth cycle of the Columbus Exhibition,” McCoy said. “The Landmark team has worked to reimagine how Exhibit Columbus can be used to explore the challenges at the heart of one of America’s most celebrated design cities and has selected curatorial partners who will excel in this work. This will be a very special two-year cycle culminating with the opening of the (new architectural) exhibition in August 2025.”

Partners include Columbus native Mila Lipinski of Duvall Decker of Jackson, Mississippi, who chairs the group. Also on board: Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison of Could Be Design in Chicago and Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; Rasul Mowatt of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; Elizabeth Blazius and Jonathan Solomon of Preservation Futures, Chicago, Illinois; and Indianapolis poet and filmmaker Too Black.

The 2024-2025 cycle of the Columbus Exhibition will launch publicly on June 26 with a community launch event from 3 to 5 p.m. at Helen Haddad Hall in downtown Columbus. Landmark Columbus Foundation curators and staff will be featured in a free public format while launching a community engagement process. This is the first event in the Columbus Exhibition’s two-year cycle designed to shape how this dynamic program will explore compelling ideas for enabling small and medium-sized communities to make strategic investments in architecture, art and design to celebrate culture and improve quality. of place.

Launched in 2016 as a program of the nonprofit Landmark Columbus Foundation, Exhibit Columbus is an internationally renowned exploration of community, architecture, art and design that celebrates the modern heritage of Columbus – throughout a two-year cycle of events that will take place: a symposium (October 24 and 25), facility design presentations on February 21 and 22 and culminating with the Columbus Architecture Exhibition Aug 15 to Nov 30, 2025.

The kick-off will begin with brief presentations from each curatorial partner, followed by a coffee and conversation break. Participants will be able to interact with a large physical model of downtown Columbus and document their relationship with familiar downtown sites.

Individual curatorial partner biographies are listed on the Exhibit Columbus website at exhibitioncolumbus.org.

In part two, participants will engage with curatorial partners and the Landmark team as they explore potential locations and partners for this cycle. From these discussions, the curatorial partners will begin to form a theme for this cycle.