Ball State Architecture students continue building an art instillation at the intersection of Tiger Drive and River Road along the trail network. The project came about after collaboration between Ball State and the Yorktown Arts Council. Staff photo by Corey Ohlenkamp
YORKTOWN — The Yorktown arts council has formed its first tangible project well before expected thanks to a partnership with Ball State University's architecture program, and the project at the intersection of Tiger Drive and West River Road is already catching attention.
Starting in January, Jennifer Groves, the head of the Yorktown Arts Council, contacted Phil Repp with the BSU architecture program wanting to partner for some undefined project.
One architecture professor, Sean Burns, saw potential in Yorktown and staged a two-part immersive learning project with the town. The first iteration of the class, which finished earlier this year, helped design what is currently being built at the site. Burns and students approached the Yorktown Arts Council with several ideas. The council listed what it liked and didn't like about each, eventually generating a sort of hybrid of several ideas.
“It’s really exciting. We had wanted something that would get people’s attention. We wanted something people could see within the first year. It’s good to see progress," Groves said.
The structure has a dominating presence at the trail head by the elementary school and is made out of large cedar posts that extend in a wavelike fashion around a small section of the trail. The design also calls for a section that will hover over some of the trail network. The idea of the project will help give a central point on this section of trail.
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