UTK Tower: Marshall Prado, 2018–19 UDRF Fellow Executive Summary

The Columbus, Indiana community continues to demonstrate that the best way to have an authentically great place to live is through the process of working together with shared values and clear goals. Engaging excellent designers and relying upon a thoughtful process to build new buildings, landscapes, artworks, or reuse existing ones is a key part of our history. After more than seventy-five years, this tradition has created what we hold dear today: an internationally-recognized collection of architecture, art, and design that has become a defining characteristic of the community and the core of this city’s identity. Heritage Fund — The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County launched Foundation (LCF) in 2015 as one of its key programs to ensure that Columbus’ traditions and investments in design excellence are well cared for and can remain a source of inspiration for future generations. With the support of many in this community and those around the state and country, Heritage Fund’s program quickly became a community asset making a big difference through and many progressive preservation efforts. 1 Executive Summary Bartholomew County Courthouse: Isaac Hodgson, 1874

In late 2019 Heritage Fund supported the move of this program to become a stand alone 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with the mission to care for, celebrate, and advance the cultural heritage of Columbus, Indiana. At the start of 2020, the inaugural Board of Directors of LCF met to move the mission forward, and with dedicated staff, volunteers, and collaborators, this organization has made great progress and is poised for continued success far beyond today. All recognize that this work is successful through the acknowledgment and appreciation of what and who came before us. LCF directs three locally-engaged and globally-connected programs that are interwoven in their impact and networks to sustain its mission: Landmark Columbus, Exhibit Columbus, and Columbus Design Institute. Major progress has been made in each area, for example on a Getty Foundation-funded conservation grant for , the launch of the third cycle of Exhibit Columbus, and by exploring design excellence with Indiana mayors. As we prepare for the county’s bicentennial celebrations, this organization is poised to continue making a big impact here and beyond, and with a supportive community, it will remain a critical part of this very special place. 2 3 Soft Civic: Bryony Roberts, 2018–19 Miller Prize Recipient Executive Director, Landmark Columbus Foundation

My first public event in Columbus was in April of 2011 at the re-opening of the Commons when I made remarks about helping to restore the “Chaos No. 1” by artist Jean Tinguely. I was followed by a 12-year old student who had written the winning essay for the opportunity to “flip the switch” and bring that kinetic masterpiece back to its whirling existence. It felt like the entire community was there celebrating the moment. Ten years later as we distribute this, our first annual report from Landmark Columbus Foundation, I feel that same sense of community magic and support behind everything we do. Ours is an organization created to care for, celebrate, and advance the cultural heritage of this amazing place. The opportunity to work with such a dedicated board of directors, staff, volunteers, and collaborators to accomplish our work is singular and amazing. In just a few years, hundreds have helped build this organization into one that creates tremendous impact in our community and provides benefits that reach far beyond Bartholomew County. Landmark Columbus Foundation enjoys a strong alignment to Heritage Fund — The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County, which allowed us to compete for and win a $3.4m grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. Over the next five years, this grant will transform our ability to collaborate with many others, and dramatically increase our impact across all of our program areas. It establishes Landmark Columbus Foundation as an anchor institution in our community, one that is able to sustain its mission well into the future. As we continue caring for what came before us, and dreaming about what is to come beyond, we do it with immense gratitude to those that have helped create and support this organization. I hope that you will read through our report and consider the work we have accomplished, even through the difficult times of 2020.

Sincerely yours,

Richard McCoy 4 Programs Landmark Columbus Foundation

Landmark Columbus Foundation cares for, celebrates, and Landmark advances the cultural heritage of Columbus, Indiana. LCF is the community resource and thought leader for progressive Columbus preservation in Bartholomew County; an advocate and educator for and about cultural heritage; and a source of inspiration to Foundation advance design excellence for community benefit. To sustain its mission LCF directs three locally-engaged and globally- connected programs that are interwoven in their impact and Landmark networks: Landmark Columbus, Exhibit Columbus, and Columbus Columbus Design Institute. Exhibit Columbus Columbus Design Institute 6 7 Landmark Columbus: Purpose and Goals Landmark Columbus: Projects and Events

Landmark Columbus is a progressive preservation effort Keeping it Modern at Conserving an Icon: Landmark North Christian Church Henry Moore’s that assists in caring for buildings, landscapes, and art Landmark Columbus was awarded a Getty While COVID-19 began to tear through Foundation Keeping it Modern grant in late our community, a night of vandalism left in Bartholomew County. It advocates for and educates about 2019 to lead a multifaceted team to create this cherished sculpture defaced. Landmark a conservation management plan for North Columbus quickly mobilized to restore the these culturalC resourcesolumbus through research, conservation, Christian Church (, 1964). icon to its original state. Working closely with leading experts in and fundraising projects and events. In 2020 work was preservation, including J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winner Bryony Roberts, Columbus Cultural Resource Inventory completed onFoundatio a number of key projectsn while the organization the results will be gathered into a detailed and Survey Project social, economic, and cultural study. In the summer of 2020 Landmark Columbus continued to expand its connections within the community. conducted a survey and inventory of 23 significant modern cultural resources in Save the Crump Theatre Bartholomew County, and then extrapolated Community Group Landmark those findings across 80 significant, modern When Crump’s New Theatre opened in1889, cultural resources. This work was supported it was the first stand-alone opera house in by the Cummins Foundation in an effort to Columbus. The Art Deco façade was designed understand the potential of a new preservation Columbus by architect Alden Merenda in 1941. Community tool for Bartholomew County: a Revolving dedication to the theater grew significantly Loan Fund. The ultimate goal of creating the with the 2019 Exhibit Columbus installation Revolving Loan Fund is to have all significant “Love Letter to the Crump,” by Borderless Studio. cultural resources well cared for into the In April 2019 the Crump was placed on Indiana foreseeable future. Exhibit Landmarks’ “Top 10 Most Endangered List” and Landmark Columbus continues to support the potential for it to be repurposed as a Columbus performing arts venue.

Landmark Columbus work is aligned towards Columbus three main goals:

Identify significant and priority cultural resources Design that are in threat and create projects and events that raise awareness for their current state and advocate for their proper care.

Institute Create projects and events that inform audiences about the existence, significance, and condition of cultural resources, and inspire others to do the same.

Leverage the Landmark Columbus Foundation network to assist owners and managers in caring 8 for cultural resources. 9 First Christian Church: Eliel Saarinen, 1942

10 11 Exhibit Columbus: Purpose and Goals Exhibit Columbus: New Middles, 2020–21 Cycle

Curatorial Fellows In our third cycle of programming we have Exhibit Columbus is an exploration of architecture, art, continued to evolve and grow Exhibit Columbus. Iker Gil is a Chicago-based architect, editor, Landmark Now with a dedicated director and a curatorial and curator. He is the director of MAS Studio, design, and community that activates the design legacy of fellowship designed to grow new and diverse a collaborative architecture and design firm voices in every cycle, this project has a renewed as well as the founder and editor-in-chief of Columbus, Indiana. It creates a two-year cycle of programming sense of relevance and a refined purpose. the design journal MAS Context. He teaches The curatorial theme for this cycle of Exhibit that uses thisC contextolumbus to convene conversations around architecture studios at the School of the Art Columbus, New Middles, will re-define and re- Institute of Chicago and, since 2019, he is the envision heartland geography, seeing it as a executive director of the SOM Foundation. innovative ideas and commissions site-responsive installations rich, plural ecology centered on the Mississippi Gil has collaborated with architects, artists, Watershed. It shows middle cities are connected in a free, public exhibition. and designers on projects including Geometry Foundation by this watershed from North to South — from the of Light at the Barcelona Pavilion and Farnsworth Canadian Border to the Gulf, and from East to House, Inside Marina City, and the Oneida West — from Appalachia to the plains. Nation of Wisconsin signage standards. Gil was the Associate Curator of the US Pavilion Columbus, Indiana is a perfect city to explore Landmark at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. these ideas through contemporary design. He has curated exhibitions at the Chicago Although situated in the legacy of modernism Architecture Biennial, the Graham Foundation, and a belief in the social agency of architecture, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Columbus is not sheltered from contemporary realities shared by all cities. The 2021 exhibition Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic, Columbus will specifically explore the questions: How editor, and curator. She was co-curator of the have early and mid-20th century typologies U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture (main street, post office, park, library, church, Biennale. Curatorial projects include Soft or school) adapted to more recent developments: Schindler at the MAK Center for Art and suburbia, the rise and fall of big box retail, digital Exhibit Architecture and Now, There: Scenes from the communication, and new methods of working Post-Geographic City, which received the Bronze and making? What potentials do these models Dragon award at the 2015 Bi-City Biennale of pose now that we are networked, agriculture Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen. Zeiger has is a machine landscape, and migration changes written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Columbus older notions of home and family? Times, Architectural Review, Metropolis, and Architect. She is an opinion columnist for Dezeen Considering the answers to these questions and former West Coast Editor of The Architects in Columbus suggests an expansive identity — Exhibit Columbus is at its heart a community- Newspaper. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the one as responsive to what is contained as to edge Columbus based project with three major goals that the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing conditions. Rethinking the middle can destabilize team keeps front of mind: about landscape architecture. She is faculty at assumptions; as if the tent poles supporting the Southern California Institute of Architecture long held values and identities are knocked (SCI-Arc) and in the Media Design Practices MFA askew. New Middles will embrace this uncertainty Design Grow an engaged community that is program at Art Center College of Design. with a sense of possibility and optimism. In a knowledgeable about and invested in the past, way the 2021 exhibition will be filled with multiple present, and future of Columbus’ cultural heritage supports that can hold up colorful circus tents through symposia, exhibitions, guided tours, under which any number of experiments can online and print publications, and educational happen, as old views and nostalgia are replaced Institute activities. by a carnival of creativity, design, and innovation.

Re-establish and increase Columbus’ relevance in a globally-connected design dialogue through the exhibition, design presentations, and symposium.

Inspire investments in architecture, art, and design for a diverse public of community members, 12 students, professionals, and enthusiasts. 13 Corn / Meal: MASS Design Group, 2018–19 Miller Prize Recipient

14 15 Exhibit Columbus: 2020 Symposium Conversation Plinth: IKD, 2016–17 Miller Prize Recipient

Over six weeks Exhibit Columbus explored the curatorial theme, New Middles, through eight, free, live streamed and recorded conversations featuring 35 architects, designers, artists, community leaders, and academics. The Symposium examined the question What is the Future of the Middle City? from a global perspective through the lens of four thematic topics. We also localized the topics to Columbus, Indiana in conversations between community stakeholders and our 2020–21 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipients. We were able to spotlight eight different organizations and initiatives happening in our community.

2020 Symposium Thematic Topics: The 2020 Symposium was successful in three key ways: Futures and Technologies Resiliency and Climate Adaptation Arts and Community Brought positive international attention to Indigenous Futures and Radical Thinking Columbus and our program by continuing As a kind of Exhibition Design Brief and to convene conversations that explore the Community Design Brief, conversations from importance of architecture, art, design, the symposium have served as foundational and community; research for all New Middles participants, identifying themes and writings for community partners while growing exhibition participants’ Grew our network and audience during understanding of Columbus’ culture and context a challenging year by succeeding on a as they conceptualize their commissioned new platform; installations for the 2021 Design Presentations and 2021 Exhibition. Created lasting content for Exhibit Columbus participants to better understand our community from afar while helping to maintain our commitment to inform and educate our 16 community about this cycle of programming. 17

Columbus Design Institute Columbus Design Institute: Projects and Events

Columbus Design Institute is a technical service initiative 16 Tech Bridge Mayors Institute on City Design Landmark This bridge is an urban innovation district The Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a that promotes the value of design excellence and its ability to under development in the historic Riverside leadership initiative of the National Endowment neighborhood and within the Indiana Avenue for the Arts in partnership with the United States improve quality of place. In an effort to be helpful to leaders Cultural District on the northwestern edge of Conference of Mayors. Columbus Design Institute downtown Indianapolis. Columbus Design was selected to host a regional session with six in Columbus,C andolumbus throughout the state, Columbus Design Institute consulted on the RFQ/RFP process mayors and eight design experts from across the to identify an excellent team to build a $14.5m country for a Regional Session in October 2019. Institute collaborates with partners through its design process bridge that will be completed by the end of 2023. to encourageFoundatio meaningful investmentsn in the sustainable and DAYLIGHT Together with People for Urban Progress and Indiana Main Street: equitable development of communities. with the support of Cummins, in 2018 Columbus Mayors’ Workshop 2021 Design Institute produced two four-part monthly Inspired and supported by the Mayors’ Institute conversation series in Indianapolis to bring Landmark of City Design, Columbus Design Institute hosted together national and local thought leaders an online workshop with five mayors from around the topic of inclusive design. The series the State of Indiana. This three-day workshop was well attended and was made into a podcast. focused on the challenges cities are experiencing Columbus on their main streets or in their Downtowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, while looking Waterside Design Competition optimistically towards a safe, post-COVID-19 With support from the Lilly Endowment’s era next summer. Strengthening Indianapolis Through Arts and Exhibit Cultural Innovation initiative, Columbus Design Institute partnered with the Central Indiana 2020 Indy Design Week: Community Foundation to run an international Homeworks design competition for Ambrose Property Group. Columbus Design Institute created Homeworks Before the property was sold in 2020, the effort Columbus to provide thoughtful responses to the beginning was to create a transformative public space at the of the COVID-19 pandemic through a series General Motors Stamping Plant site in downtown of conversations with academics, designers, Indianapolis. and community practitioners. Over the course Columbus of four days, conversations focused on: Social Connectivity, Public Space, Home Life, and Design Food Systems. Institute 18 19 Intern Highlight: Kyle Kingen 2016–17 High School Design Team

“I established a relationship with the Landmark Columbus Foundation by being involved with the inaugural Exhibit Columbus High School Design Team. This experience has inspired me to appreciate my hometown, as well as pursue an education at the Herron School of Art and Design. I’ve learned to establish professional relationships and strive to challenge myself whenever a new opportunity arises.” Kyle Kingen

Exhibit Columbus is dedicated to engaging, connecting, and inspiring young people and students in the transformative power that architecture, art, and design has to improve people’s lives and make cities better places to live. To bolster this work, we were recently awarded $25,000 through the Grants for Art Projects program from the National Endowment of the Arts. This effort is concentrated in our High School Design Team, and one of the original team members stands out: Kyle Kingen. He joined the High School Design team for the 2017 Exhibition, and since that transformative experience he has grown more dedicated to the work and school, and recently completed a successful internship in the summer of 2020. Kyle will soon receive his Bachelor of Arts in Art History from IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design. Also joining us in 2020 was Mila Lipinski who was a member of the first High School Design Team and will graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Architecture Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign this year. 20 21 Into the Hedge: SO-IL, 2018–19 Miller Prize Recipient Fiscal Report: 2020–21 Income and Expenses

Landmark Columbus Foundation has Income strong fiscal health, and has received major Grants 19.2% contributions in recent years from significant $1,548,000 and visible businesses and community leaders in Columbus, Indianapolis, and the region. Corporate Contributions While our budget has fluctuated in relation $469,000 to Exhibit Columbus events, the overall trend Individual Contributions is towards increased sustainability. Income $160,000 from grants, donations, and services generated by our other programmatic arms Exhibit Columbus Revenue 4.7% are used to balance the costs of producing $150,000 Exhibit Columbus, our most visible, and PPP Loan nationally-renowned program. $109,000

Landmark Columbus Foundation uses 6.1% Columbus Design Institute Revenue Blue & Co. as its accountant. For more detailed

$55,000 questions about the budget, please feel free 63.3%

to contact us at [email protected].

2.2% 4.5%

15.5%

Expenses Exhibit Columbus 1.9% $1,125,000 Landmark Columbus Foundation $840,000 Landmark Columbus $368,000

Columbus Design Institute 47.3% $46,000 22 35.3% Featured Awarded Grants Thank You

Lilly Endowment Inc: Heritage Fund — The Community Foundation of GIFT VII Community Leadership Grant Bartholomew County: COVID-19 Organizational We are grateful for the tremendous support that Landmark Resiliency Heritage Fund — The Community Foundation Columbus Foundation received in 2020 and before. This of Bartholomew County received a five-year Grant supported the purchasing of new Large-Scale Community Leadership Grant that computers, adapters, and subscriptions for the generosity helps us continue our mission to care for, celebrate, will be applied to our organization. $3,498,824 organization to ensure that Landmark Columbus was awarded through the seventh phase of Foundation staff were able to complete their and advance the cultural heritage of Columbus, Indiana. Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Giving Indiana Funds for work during a time with increased remote work. Tomorrow initiative. These funds will transform Adding these items allowed for the organization our ability to sustain our mission to care for, to become more resilient to our ever-shifting 2021 promises to be an excellent year for our organization, celebrate, and advance the cultural heritage cultural landscape. of this remarkable place. Our Board of Directors and it will be made possible with your support. and staff are grateful to Heritage Fund for its visionary efforts to help establish Landmark Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) Columbus Foundation and develop it into Support allowed Columbus Design Institute a position where it can receive this level to lead a free, invitation-only, online workshop of support. that focused on the challenges cities are experiencing on their Main Streets and in their Downtowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, National Endowment for the Arts: while looking optimistically towards a safe, Grants for Art Projects post-COVID-19 summer. Mayors and other Exhibit Columbus was awarded $25,000 for leaders from their communities engaged leading Design Legacy Supporters The Next Generation Project — a comprehensive design and transportation experts as they initiative to engage, connect, and inspire young presented case studies from each of their cities. City of Columbus people and students in the transformative The workshop was inspired and supported by power that architecture, art, and design have MICD, a leadership initiative of the National Columbus Area Visitors Center to improve people’s lives and make cities better Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the places to live. The Next Generation Project United States Conference of Mayors. Mayors’ Cummins Inc. has three core components; the High School Workshop Post COVID-19 builds upon Columbus Design Team, composed of Columbus public high Design Institute’s work last year when it was Deer Crossing Fund school students that participate as designers in one of three institutions selected to host a MICD the exhibition; the Activity Guide, designed for Regional Session. Columbus Regional Health youth to explore the exhibition and learn about Columbus’ design heritage; as well as customized Efroymson Family Fund tours and programs created for local and visiting Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent and Clarence E. Custer Elwood Staffing youth and their families. and Inez R. Custer Foundations Support allowed Landmark Columbus to Haddad Foundation document recent preservation projects connected Indiana Humanities: Action Grant to SO-IL’s 2019 installation at the Miller House Heritage Fund — The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County This grant supported speaker fees for the 2020 and Garden, and create a way to engage more Exhibit Columbus Symposium: New Middles. By high school students on private tours of this Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation convening a symposium with leading academics, special home when it is safe to do so. practitioners, and community leaders in free, Johnson Ventures online conversations, the symposium advanced Columbus’ design legacy for a broad public. Moravec Realty Robert and Helen Haddad Foundation Schumaker Family 24 SIHO Insurance Services 25 2020 Donors North Christian Church: Eero Saarinen, 1964

John and Katina Sadtler John and Sally Brand John and Sarah Lechleiter Johnson Ventures Judy Shepherd Julia Reese Adam Green Kathy Shimizu Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards Kelly Neuner Aidan Cronin Ken Koense Andrew Hine Konrad Fiedler Angela Julian Kwok-Sang and Linda Chui Ann Stack Laura Morgan Anonymous Leaveil Flowers Barbara Tuttle Lori Davis Bill and Ann Jones Lori Goldstein Bob Richardson Louis Joyner Architect Brenda Pitts Louisa Zheng Brent and Becky Church Margie Berns Casey and Betsy Cronin Marilyn Hayes Cathy Robinson Marilyn J. Richardson Charlie and Jayne Farber Mary Ann Hull City of Columbus Mayor Jim and Pam Lienhoop Costello & Associates Micah Zender David and Claudette Hayward Michael and Liz Kaufmann David and Wilma Doup Michael J. Muzar David Stahl and Julie O'Brien Michelle Griffith Deer Crossing Fund Michelle Mirrielees Don and Dody Harvey Milestone Contractors, L.P. Donna Rosenberg Nancy and Winthrop Morris Doug and Laura Leonard Nancy Bumb Drew White and Patricia Clark Nancy Proctor Efroymson Family Fund Nelson B. Nave Elizabeth and Mordechai Kubany Nicholas Steinkraus Eric Robbins Pam Flores Gary Vance Randall Tucker Greg and Camille Willmore Randy and Linda Allman Gregg and Judy Summerville Rebecca Uchill Gregory and Susan Boll Rich and Alice Gold Gregory Ibanez Richard McCoy and Tracey Gallion Griffith Family Foundation Inc. Rick Valicenti Haddad Foundation Robert and Mary Orben Hadley and Amanda Fruits Robert Pulley Heritage Fund — Robert Stacy The Community Foundation Ronald Luther of Bartholomew County Sade Powell James and Karin Scarbrough Sandy Lichlyter Jason and Melissa Larrison Sarah and John Green Jean Marr Wilkins Sarla and Swadesh Kalsi Donor Advised Fund Jeeyea Kim and Dorian Bybee Schumaker Family Jeff Baker and John Pickett Steven Mannheimer Jeffrey Carowitz Sunny Currier Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher Surekha Malkani DiOrio Jesse Brand and Geri Handley Susan Cox Jessica Bricker and Nick Essling Terry and Connie Marbach Jim and Dana Roberts Tom and Tina Vujovich Jim and Toots Henderson Tracy L. Haddad Joe and Linda Hale Upland Brewing John and Amy McCormick Wendy Gilmartin John and Arleen Keele Will Miller and Lynne Maguire 26John and Beth Stroh Winter Bottum 27 Board of Directors Key Personnel

“The future is bright for Landmark Columbus Foundation and I’m glad to serve as board chair of this organization. We have made an incredible impact in a short time period.” Rick Johnson, Board President

Rick Johnson Tracy Haddad Richard McCoy Courtney Xavier Board President Interim Executive Director, Executive Director, LCF Design Specialist, Columbus Design Institute President and CEO, Johnson Ventures, Inc. Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Property Anne Surak Kyle Kingen Manager, Golden Endeavors, LLC Hutch Schumaker Director, Exhibit Columbus Intern, LCF Board Vice President Betsy Laskey Ben Valentine Elizabeth Kubany President, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Inc. Columbus Community Supporter and Volunteer Development and Engagement Manager, LCF Public Relations, Kubany LLC Tracy Souza The Honorable James Lienhoop Hannah Brokenshire Rick Valicenti Board Secretary and Treasurer Mayor of the City of Columbus Communications & Operations (Departed 2020) Design Direction President and CEO, Heritage Fund Karen Niverson Jamie Goldsborough Anna Mort Richard McCoy Executive Director, Columbus Area Visitors Center Communications & Operations (Joined 2021) Graphic Design Executive Director, LCF Surekha DiOrio (Joined 2021) Hadley Fruits Jeff Baker and John Pickett Mark Elwood Chief Financial Officer, Photographer, LCF Hospitality Co-chairs Chairman and CEO, Elwood Staffing Indiana Youth Services Association Janice Shimizu Mimi Zieger and Iker Gil Associate Curator, Exhibit Columbus 2020–21 Exhibit Columbus Curators Chris Merritt 28 Project Manager, Columbus Design Institute