Charlie Vinz

Thanks SF pals for coming out last week for Informal Light! Super thanks to @cahadesign for this awesome storefront gallery space, @jiimbeau for these lovely pictures, and @jemonks & @dickyk for hosting ❤️❤️❤️

8 years ago this month! I collaborated with @jeremiahchiu on designing Song Poems, an installation for his prescient visual music and graphic scores, creating a flexible listening station hangout zone, a speaker chair/physical music dispenser on wheels, and a TV sling because why mount it on the wall? It was the first show @marzbrewing 's gallery space (RIP). It was also my introduction to working with @adigoodrich and @seanpecknold , who were visiting to support and expertly stepped in to help pull it all together the night before. I think @theandicrist may have also helped a bit behind the scenes at Hyde Park Art Center where some of the fabrication might have happened. All of em amazing collaborators.

There's a deck! Landscaping to come .. Swipe for before

Very excited to share some objects I've been working on these past few months for a small exhibition I'm calling Informal Light at my pal Hallie's space in San Francisco @cahadesign There will be an opening May 1 for SF pals, and maybe even some words by @thegibran to help make sense of the weird layers of thoughts happening in these objects (pendant lights, yes, they're ultimately pendant lights made out of worn out men's shirts).

Final details coming together over at this a-frame rehab, including turning 2 of the beams into light fixtures

Earlier this year, in the midst of our Exhibit Columbus process, we were asked to develop schematic concept renderings for Project Encore, an emerging organized effort to restore the Crump Theatre and build a new addition that would make the building accessible and provide new support program, as well as an enclosed outdoor courtyard space. Our proposal extended the 1940s accordion facade with a folded perforated metal screen, overlayed with the facades of the historic buildings that once stood in that adjacent location, restoring the street edge and creating a transitional, accessible entrance/lobby, and forming an outdoor performance/gathering space. Over the summer we teamed up with @oriley_office as finalists in a selection process to be the architects for this. Ultimately the project leaders had something else in mind, but we were extremely pleased with this approach and excited about the possibilities. A few extra images show the process of developing the design and final renderings through physical collaging and multiple overlays, mimicking to an extent the palimpsest nature of the historic theatre. Extremely patient rendering assistance from @mellljg

Updates from Lake Wandawega, and its early October, late afternoon sun #wip

7 Pants Lamp A lamp shade made from 7 pairs of exhausted pants and wood glue woven into a self supporting sphere. This lamp will be available at the @latitudechi fundraiser on Thursday Oct. 16. See ya there!

We’re excited for Wednesday’s Miller Prize Conversation with Charlie Vinz of Adaptive Operations (@adaptive_operations )! Take a look at these photos of Charlie working with summer camp kids, high school students, Columbus Propeller, builders, and more, in Columbus over the last two-year cycle of Yes And. Join us at 6:30 pm at The Crump Theatre (@the_crump_theatre ) for a conversation with Charlie and special guest Shannon Stratton (Executive Director, Oxbow Arts), moderated by Leticia Prado (J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program). The conversation will start with an Indiana guest poet, Eugene Gloria. Guests are invited to arrive early for a reception. Charlie, with his team at Adaptive Operations—Curt MacIver and Melanie Gregorio—created the installation Accessing Nostalgia at The Crump Theatre. The installation peels back the building’s layers, exposing forgotten architectural details and stories. On the north façade, 130 silhouettes of Columbus residents who have cared for the theater reflect like a window to the past. Inside one of the long-sealed opera boxes, the project invites visitors to reflect on the theater’s complicated history, including its era of racial segregation, while imagining what new uses could take root. The 2025 Miller Prize Conversations are made possible by a generous grant from the Mark and Wendy Elwood Foundation. The series is being produced in partnership with the Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program (@iu_architecture ) and Indiana Humanities (@inhumanities ). #millerprize #exhibitcolumbus #yesand #exhibition #community #art #architecture #design #installation #publicart #humanities

STIR visits ‘Yes, And’, the 2025 Exhibit Columbus exhibition, featuring 13 site-responsive installations spread across the city’s streets and terraces. Curated by the Landmark Columbus Foundation, the exhibition builds on the town’s rich modernist heritage—shaped by icons such as Robert Venturi, César Pelli, and Richard Meier—and invites the public to become part of the city’s unfolding narrative. As the curators put it, “Exhibit Columbus brings the public into the evolving performance of the city,” turning heritage into a participatory experience. Read more: Link in Bio - Image: Hadley Fruits for Landmark Columbus Foundation - @exhibitcolumbus @landmark.columbus @Helloakima @hadleyfruits @chandlerahrens @constancevale @kelleyvandyckmurphy @studiocookejohn @ninacookejohn @Ad__wo @germane.barnes @Lofteson @suzannelettieri @jeleoffice @adaptive_operations @cesar_adrian_lopez @dragons_podcast @amelynamelyn @gp_arq @aschool_uva @syr_arch @columbiagsapp @risdarch @aaahirszz @columbuspropeller - #exhibitcolumbus #publicinstallation #architecturefestival #thisislandscapearchitecture #senseofplace #thinkNEXT #STIR #staySTIRred @sunena_maju

For the front facade installation at the Crump Theatre, we resurrected an arched opening from a 1920 facade that lies buried beneath the folded 1940s facade. To create this shape, we took silhouettes of ~130 community members who have had some role in keeping the theatre alive all these years and cut them full scale out of mirrored vinyl and salvaged polycarbonate yard signs. The silhouette process began as an exercise with the Columbus Youth Design Camp participants earlier in the summer, who are represented in the installation as well, with support from @columbuspropeller to laser cut each one. The silhouette idea was referencing some backlit decorative screens on the interior, and mirror surfaces are a motif found throughout the interior from the 1940s renovation. Prior to photography, silhouettes were a way to have a portrait done for those who could not afford to have one painted. I liked the use of it here because it flattens out the pronounced class hierarchy found in Columbus, and renders individuals somewhat more anonymous, recognizable only to those who really know you, but each one still completely unique and individual. We cheated on a few in order to include folks like theatre patron J. Irwin Miller himself, whose Esquire cover profile picture also helped inspire this, and whose wealth could have saved the Crump many times over perhaps if it had been just a bit more modern 😉 All photos by @hadleyfruits for @landmark.columbus

Lovely images of our installation - Accessing Nostalgia - for @exhibitcolumbus from last weekend. There are a lot of experiments folded into this project, something I felt free to do with a prompt that almost resisted making something purely for programmatic function. But I still wanted something visceral and emotional that could be understood in some way regardless of a viewer's connection with the Crump, let alone an understanding of architectural history. Having a layer of the building literally peeling away to create a non-hierarchical, liminal space felt like an intuitive gesture, the resultant form of which, while I understood just fine in digital form, still has an ambiguity about what it really is. For me it's about a complicated building in a complicated small city, slowly learning to come out and unfurl itself, warts and all, to see what will happen when it invites other people into this process All photos by @hadleyfruits for @landmark.columbus - thank you Hadley for the morning photography that gets the shadow projection lined up almost perfectly, something which isn't actually possible ❤️