The ticket deadline for the Exhibit Columbus preview party at 5 p.m. Aug. 20 under a tent at Mill Race Park downtown has been extended to Sunday at exhibitcolumbus.org, according to organizers.
Currently, more than 600 tickets have been sold, according to Jeff Baker, coordinating the rain-or-shine event with John Pickett. In both 2017 and 2019, the gala attracted 700 people, including visitors and media nationwide and worldwide.
“Things are going well,” Baker said. “This is such a great community celebration.”
The gathering is presented by MyTruAdvantage, a SIHO product. Ticket prices begin at $200.
The event will feature a meal, music, speakers, and designers and fabricators, including local and area contributors, of the 13 installations planned for the biennial exhibition that highlights art, architecture, design and community. The pop-up-style architecture in the installations spins a story or an element of significance off the city’s iconic Modernist architecture located nearby.
Designers call this the idea of creations being “in conversation with” pieces by world-class architects such as I.M. Pei and Eliel Saarinen.
The 2017 exhibition attracted about 40,000 people in person interacting with installations, and the 2019 exhibition attracted about 30,000 people, according to organizers. Those figures exclude many others reacting on websites and social media and print media worldwide.
The theme of the exhibition, running through Nov. 28, is “New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City?” This cycle of programming explores the future of the center of the United States and the regions connected by the Mississippi Watershed.
