Join Merritt Chase’s Chris Merritt in conversation with Frida Escobedo and Daniel Ostroff on Thursday, November 15th at 5pm for an Exhibit Columbus Evening Conversation in Columbus, Indiana.
Meet 2018-19 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Winner, Frida Escobedo of Frida Escobedo Studio in her first public presentation in Columbus. Escobedo’s studio will create an installation for the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library Plaza during Exhibit Columbus’ 2019 exhibition, which opens to the public on August 24, 2019.
Special guest Daniel Ostroff, an Eames scholar and film producer, will present on Eames + Morality prior to our program with Frida Escobedo. Ostroff is the author of "Modern Classic", "Eames + Valastro", and "Collecting Eames." He was consulting curator for Eames Words and curator of Collecting Eames: The JF Chen Collection, both for The Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Consortium.
Following presentations by Daniel Ostroff and Frida Escobedo, Chris Merritt will lead a moderated discussion with our guests. Merritt is a landscape architect and founding principal of Merritt Chase, and currently serves on the Curatorial Advisory Committee for Exhibit Columbus.