Landmark Columbus Foundation Announces Lead Sponsors for 2021 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition
The third exhibition will be powered by support from Cummins Inc. and Heritage Fund through a grant received from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Columbus, Indiana — Landmark Columbus Foundation is proud to announce the lead sponsors of the 2021 Exhibition of Exhibit Columbus, New Middles, one of Columbus’s most visible cultural events. Cummins Inc. is the 2021 Exhibition Presenting Sponsor. Heritage Fund—The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County, through a grant received from Lilly Endowment Inc., is the presenting sponsor for the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize.
These sponsorships will anchor this year's program and create a strong foundation for widespread community support. Exhibit Columbus will open to the public on August 21, 2021, as a free, outdoor exhibition with more than 13 installations of temporary art and architecture on view throughout downtown.
“We are honored to have such generous philanthropic support. These sponsorships reinforce our mission to care for, celebrate, and advance the cultural heritage of this remarkable Indiana city,” said Richard McCoy, Executive Director, Landmark Columbus Foundation.
These sponsorships support Exhibit Columbus as one of the state's most visible contemporary art and architecture programs, and one that is deeply focused on improving the quality of place in Columbus, Indiana. The program continues its remarkable track record of representing a diversity of perspectives and ideas while putting Columbus’s world-renowned cultural heritage on display through commissioning some of the most creative minds in art and architecture to create new works in dialogue with iconic buildings, landscapes, and public art around Columbus. Exhibit Columbus celebrates the relationship between the built environment and the people that inhabit it.
“The Cummins Architecture program helped establish Columbus as a world-class architectural destination. Building on this legacy, Exhibit Columbus is an exciting event that everyone should visit this summer and fall,” said Mary Titsworth Chandler, Vice President of Community Relations, Cummins Inc.
“Thousands of innovative Cummins employees live and work in Columbus, the community where I grew up. Exhibit Columbus is an exciting cultural event that reflects my excitement about Cummins’ role in powering prosperous communities of the future,” Added Jennifer Rumsey, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cummins Inc.
Cummins has long supported the Exhibit Columbus program and the broader mission of Landmark Columbus Foundation. Since 1919 the Company’s headquarters has been located in the heart of downtown Columbus.
The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize is the centerpiece of Exhibit Columbus and was created as one of North America’s most sought-after awards for artists, architects, and designers. It honors the legacy of two great patrons of our community who passed in the early 2000s. The 2020-21 Miller Prize recipients were selected for their commitment to the transformative power that architecture, art, and design have to improve people’s lives and make cities better places to live. They represent leading and diverse voices in their fields.
Heritage Fund is pleased to be the presenting sponsor for the Miller Prize this year as part of a broader collaboration with Landmarks Columbus Foundation to care for and advance Columbus’ international reputation for art, design, and architecture. Lilly Endowment helped support the collaboration with a grant to Heritage Fund through Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT), a statewide community foundation initiative.
“The Heritage Fund Board of Directors, with deep appreciation to the generous support from Lilly Endowment and its Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow grant initiative, is thrilled to be part of bringing an incredibly talented, diverse, and community-focused set of designers to Columbus, Indiana. Doing our part to further the remarkable design legacy of Columbus is both an honor and an obligation to future generations," said Tracy Souza, President and CEO of Heritage Fund.
Heritage Fund and Cummins Inc. have provided foundational support to Exhibit Columbus from its inception as Design Legacy Supporters. As Landmark Columbus Foundation prepares for its third exhibition, it acknowledges the profound impact of all the Design Legacy Supporters: City of Columbus, Columbus Area Visitors Center, Deer Crossing Fund, Columbus Regional Health, Efroymson Family Fund, Elwood Staffing, Haddad Foundation, Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation, Johnson Ventures, Moravec Realty, Schumaker Family, and SIHO Insurance Services.
In its third cycle, curated by Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, Exhibit Columbus is exploring the theme New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City? in an effort to look outward from Columbus and draw connections between Columbus’s local ecosystem and larger regional networks. In posing the question, “What is the future of the middle city?” Exhibit Columbus acts as a living laboratory, inviting people to envision many possibilities and multiple paths forward that build on Columbus’s robust legacy of design in service to the greater community.
The 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus Participants
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients
Dream the Combine (Minneapolis)
Ecosistema Urbano (Miami and Madrid, Spain)
Future Firm (Chicago)
Olalekan Jeyifous (Brooklyn)
Sam Jacob Studio (London, England)
University Design Research Fellows
Derek Hoeferlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
Joyce Hwang (University at Buffalo)
Jei Jeeyea Kim (Indiana University)
Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller (Texas Tech University)
Ang Li (Northeastern University)
Lola Sheppard and Mason White (University of Toronto & University of Waterloo)
Natalie Yates (Ball State University)
Columbus High School Design Team
Naricyn Andis
Brody Copas
Harley Grant
Chase Jones
Andrew Krueger
Alyson Le
Eshaan Mehta
Grishma Pitkar
Alex Thomas
Darin Johnson (Instructor)
Photography Fellows
Virginia Hanusik (New Orleans)
David Schalliol (Minneapolis)
Environmental Design and Wayfinding
Some All None (Los Angeles)
The Exhibition will be on display August 21 through November 28 and include programming for youth and families, a University Design Research Colloquium in collaboration with Ball State University and Indiana University, and other community-related events unique to the different installations.
About Cummins Inc.
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of complementary business segments that design, manufacture, distribute and service a broad portfolio of power solutions. The company’s products range from diesel, natural gas, electric and hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 57,800 people committed to powering a more prosperous world through three global corporate responsibility priorities critical to healthy communities: education, environment and equality of opportunity. Cummins serves its customers online, through a network of company-owned and independent distributor locations, and through thousands of dealer locations worldwide and earned about $1.8 billion on sales of $19.8 billion in 2020.
About Heritage Fund—The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County
Heritage Fund – The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County was formed as a community foundation in 1976 with the purpose of continuing a legacy of giving by providing an opportunity for all citizens to make gifts and establish charitable funds to benefit the local community. It was created primarily to: provide responsible stewardship of gifts donated for broad charitable purposes; promote leadership to address community issues; serve as a catalyst for positive change in partnership with others; and promote philanthropy broadly within the community.
About Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow
Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT) is a series of statewide initiatives that help strengthen community foundations in Indiana and build their capacity to support the needs of their local communities. Since it began in 1990, GIFT has helped community foundations strengthen unrestricted endowments, fund special projects and inspire others to give through challenge grants. In October 2018, the Endowment launched the seventh phase of the initiative (GIFT VII) and is making available $125 million in grants to help community foundations raise financial resources and provide community foundations with funds to enhance their leadership competencies and address high-priority challenges and opportunities in the towns, cities and counties they serve.
About Landmark Columbus Foundation
Landmark Columbus Foundation cares for, celebrates, and advances the cultural heritage of Columbus, Indiana. In keeping this spirit of innovation in design and community collaboration alive, Landmark created the program Exhibit Columbus in 2016 as a vested way to connect design excellence to quality of place. To fulfill its mission Landmark Columbus Foundation directs three locally-engaged and globally-connected programs that are interwoven in their impact and networks: Landmark Columbus, Exhibit Columbus, and Columbus Design Institute. landmarkcolumbusfoundation.org
About Exhibit Columbus
Exhibit Columbus is an exploration of architecture, art, design, and community that activates the design legacy of Columbus, Indiana. It creates a cycle of programming that uses this context to convene conversations around innovative ideas and commissions site-responsive installations in a free, public exhibition. exhibitcolumbus.org
