Upcoming Events: Miller M. Arch Lecture and Exhibition Series: Speaker Series: Events: Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design: Indiana University Bloomington

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

6:30 p.m.

This fall's Miller M. Arch lecture series, in partnership with the Landmark Columbus Foundation, offers lectures by the 2025 Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize recipients. Each conversation will begin with a reading from an Indiana poet. Guests are invited to a reception preceding each talk.

Germane Barnes and Joseph Zeal-Henry

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

6:30 p.m.

This fall's Miller M. Arch lecture series, in partnership with the Landmark Columbus Foundation, offers lectures by the 2025 Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize recipients. Each conversation will begin with a reading from an Indiana poet. Guests are invited to a reception preceding each talk.

Chris Cornelius

Thursday, October 09, 2025

6:30 p.m.

This fall's Miller M. Arch lecture series, is being held in partnership with the Landmark Columbus Foundation, presenters of the Exhibit Columbus biennial and the Exhibit Columbus 2025 University Design Research Fellowship Colloquium, for which Chris Cornelius of studio:indigenous will offer the keynote presentation.

Nina Cooke John and Julia van den Hout

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

6:30 p.m.

This fall's Miller M. Arch lecture series, in partnership with the Landmark Columbus Foundation, offers lectures by the 2025 Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize recipients. Each conversation will begin with a reading from an Indiana poet. Guests are invited to a reception preceding each talk.

Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood with Billie Tsien

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

6:30 p.m.

This fall's Miller M. Arch lecture series, in partnership with the Landmark Columbus Foundation, offers lectures by the 2025 Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize recipients. Each conversation will begin with a reading from an Indiana poet. Guests are invited to a reception preceding each talk.

Dream-Home

Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 12 p.m.—Thursday, April 09, 2026, 5 p.m.

In the collaborative exhibition "Dream-Home," artists Derek Besant, Tracy Templeton, and Betsy Stirratt examine the evolving tensions between the constructed environment, environmental concerns, and the fragile concept of "home" in an era of profound transformation.

Mariana Noreña: Narratives of Place

Tuesday, March 03, 2026, 6:30 p.m.—Tuesday, March 03, 2026, 7:30 p.m.

Through sculptural installations and material experimentation, artist Mariana Noreña explores how humans relate to place through ecology, history, and mythology. In this lecture, she shares the evolution of her research-driven, site-responsive practice, rooted in close attention to place, material, and community.

Photo of an indigo and cream woven tapestry on a gallery wall. There are cloud-like shapes around the left, right, and bottom edges and a bird-like shape in the middle.

Rowland & Chinami Ricketts: Recent Works | Lecture and Exhibition

Thursday, April 02, 2026, 6:30 p.m.—Saturday, May 30, 2026, 5 p.m.

The Columbus Area Visitors Center presents a lecture and exhibition featuring recent works of Rowland & Chinami Ricketts.

Photo of Olga Mesa. Greyscale photo of a smiling woman with long dark hair. She is wearing a dark blazer over a shiny v-neck blouse, large earrings, and a metal necklace.

Olga Mesa | Performance2: Crafting material and spatial interactions

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

6:30 p.m.

Olga Mesa will present an approach towards architectural design called Performance2 developed with Nathan Fash, her partner at Nuvola Studio, which pairs the social, cultural, and communicative forms of performance with quantifiable characteristics such as heat transfer, structural integrity, and energy use.

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