Exhibit Columbus to be celebrated next week

There are still a few weeks left to check out the Exhibit Columbus installations around the downtown area, including an event next week to celebrate major awards.

Earlier this month, Exhibit Columbus was recognized with the Public Art Honor Award at the Indy Chamber’s 2025 Monumental Awards for the 2022–23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus, Public by Design. On Wednesday, there will be a happy hour reception and awards presentation to the city of Columbus. That will be from 4:30 TO 5:30 p.m. at the Columbus Area Visitors Center.

The event will also be celebrating a Citation of Merit awarded for the First Christian Church Tower renovation project through the DOCOMOMO US Modernism in America Awards. That award was also announced earlier this month.

Exhibit Columbus works in two year cycles, with a symposium year of planning and discussions with selected designers, followed by a year with installations at various architectural and significant locations around the city. This is the fifth two-year cycle for Exhibit Columbus, which launched in 2016. The theme of this year’s Exhibit Columbus is “Yes and”, a phrase used by storytellers and improv artists to encourage more conversation and creativity.

This year’s program includes 13 installations around the community including creations by four recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, six University Design Research Fellowship teams, the High School Design Team, Communication Designer, and Bartholomew Consolidated Schools STEM program 5th and 6th graders.

This year’s Exhibit Columbus installations end on November 30th.

You can get more information on all the installations at exhibitcolumbus.org