UPDATE: Late-summer 2008

Vigilant Vegetation's lid is being repaired by the artist. The base will be removed from the park during this time. We hope to have repairs completed and the Riverbox returned in mid-August.

Vigilant Vegetation is not on view at this time.


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Vigilant Vegetation Riverbox, created by Jean Magdich, can be found in:

Dublin Kiwanis Riverway Park
6245 Riverside Drive
Dublin, Ohio

For a map of DAC Riverbox locations, please click here.

Dublin Kiwanis Riverway Park is located just south of the intersection of Riverside Drive and Route 161 on the east side of Riverside Drive.  As you head south on Riverside Drive, turn right Quarry Place, a commercial area, at 6209-6277 Riverside Drive. Park in the first few available spaces and follow the sign to Dublin Kiwanis Riverway Park, directly across from the parking area.  Public parking is limited.  Dublin parks are open dawn to dusk. When visiting, please observe the City of Dublin’s Parks Courtesy and Rules, http://www.dublin.oh.us/recreation/parks/rules.php.

Dublin Kiwanis Riverway Park, a natural wetland, is a habitat and safe haven for a wide variety of birds and plants. Wetlands clean and purify water. With more than 85% of its wetlands gone, Ohio’s diversity has also declined.  Not only do wetlands help clean the water before it runs to waterways but they also hold run-off water so areas do not drain too quickly, causing flash flooding.

Clues:

GPS Coordinates:
40d 5” 42.330” N
83d 6” 34.758” W

“Vigilant Vegetation” Riverbox/ Kiwanis Park

  • Enter the park and continue down and around the curvy path.
  • Take note as you pass over the first short bridge.
  • Continue across a second, long bridge and follow the path to the right at bridge’s end.
  • Just before the third bridge, follow the fisherman’s path toward the water.
  • If you’re inclined to rest your weary bones, you’ll find Vigilant Vegetation keeping watch over the river.

Once you discover Vigilant Vegetation Riverbox, please tell us about it by sharing your experience in the DAC Riverboxes Guest Book.

To link to these clues as a printable PDF document, please click here.

Artist and Credits:

Gardener and clay artist, Jean Magdich, is the resident artist at The Logan Clay Products Company in Logan, Ohio where she develops garden-related functional and sculptural artworks.  Magdich writes about the Riverboxes project,  “The combination of traditional and contemporary approaches to entice a broad variety of people to interact in the community with nature and art is highly appealing to me.” Magdich believes that,  “… any art piece, especially one made for a specific location, should blend with its environment, and at the same time, beckon for further investigation and a more intimate interaction.”

For more information, please visit www.hockinghouse.com.

Dublin Arts Council thanks our Riverboxes supporters:

Dublin Arts Council thanks The Dublin Foundation and Honda of America for their financial support of this exciting project. Ongoing support for Dublin Arts Council is received from the City of Dublin’s hotel/motel bed tax endowment and the Ohio Arts Council. The City of Dublin Parks and Open Space Department and the Dublin Historical Society have collaborated with Dublin Arts Council in the project’s development.