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"Chance Encounters"
 Eminent critic Yve-Alain Bois to speak on John Cage, François Morellet and Ellsworth Kelly Nov. 9

Oct. 29,
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| Yve-Alain Bois |
Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, a widely recognized expert on 20th-century European and American art, will present a lecture titled "Chance Encounters: John Cage, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. The talk — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum through Jan. 4 — is cosponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' fall Public Lecture Series and the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
 Dorothée Imbert to chair new Sam Fox School program

Oct. 20,
2009 --
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will launch a new Master of Landscape Architecture program in Fall 2010, announced Bruce Lindsey, dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. The program, which will offer both two- and three-year options leading to a professional MLA degree, will be led by Dorothée Imbert, a noted scholar as well as a practicing landscape architect, who is currently associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design Her appointment in the Sam Fox School will be effective Jan. 1, 2010.

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"An American Diary"
 Celebrated artist Roger Shimomura to speak for Sam Fox School Oct. 12

Oct. 1,
2009 --
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| Night Watch #3 (2007) by Roger Shimomura |
Celebrated artist Roger Shimomura, whose paintings and performances wittily explore issues of culture, discrimination and ethnic stereotypes, will discuss his work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' fall Public Lecture Series at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12. Shimomura's lecture is held in conjunction with the semester-long series "Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy," organized by the Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values.

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A tale of two artists
 A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps

Sept. 17,
2009 --
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| Ansel Adams, Smiling Girl (Oriental Type), 1943 |
In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous "war relocation centers" at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.

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After the hurricanes
 New Orleans still needs a water plan

Aug. 31,
2009 --
Four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita led to devastating floods, the city of New Orleans still lacks a comprehensive plan for dealing with water, argues Derek Hoeferlin, a senior lecturer in the College and Graduate School of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Hoeferlin has led a series of Post-hurricane architecture and urban design studios, including most recently Gutter to Gulf, which explores spatial strategies for a potential water plan. He outlined his views in an Aug. 30 commentary for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is available for further discussion of planning and recovery issues.

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Economies: Art + Architecture
 Sam Fox School to host first ACSA and the NCAA joint conference Nov. 4-7

Aug. 28,
2009 --
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| John Maeda |
World-renowned artist and computer scientist John Maeda will serve as opening speaker for "Economies: Art Architecture," the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National Council of Art Administrators. The conference, which takes place Nov. 4-7, will be hosted by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. In conjunction with the event, the Sam Fox School and the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies are collaborating to present three Skandalaris Awards in art and design.

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Visionary architecture
 Metabolic City at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Sept. 18 to Jan. 4, 2010

Aug. 21,
2009 --
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| Warren Chalk and David Greene, *Electronic Tomato — Collage," 1969. |
Amidst the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s, avant-garde artists and architects began embracing biological and scientific models as well as the potentials of emerging technologies to explore radical new directions in urban design, developing projects that were at once fanciful, complex and conceptually serious. This fall the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Metabolic City, an exhibition surveying work by the British collective Archigram; the Japanese Metabolists (whose members include Fumihiko Maki, architect of the Kemper Art Museum); and the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the Situationist International.

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"A Challenge to Democracy"
 Fall series to explore past and present of ethnic profiling

Aug. 12,
2009 --
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| Passing Poston: An American Story (2008) |
Ethnic profiling is illegal in the United States, prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause for searches and seizures, and by the Fourteenth Amendment, which calls for equal protection under the law. And yet as the recent arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates demonstrates, the issue remains far from settled. This fall Washington University in St. Louis will present "Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy," a semester-long series exploring the history, impact and ethical issues surrounding ethnic profiling through lectures, readings, performances, panel discussions and other events.
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Freund Visiting Artist
 Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum announce new residency

June 15,
2009 --
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| Notion Nanny (2007) |
Installation artist Allison Smith will serve as the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Smith is known for creating large-scale works that critically engage popular forms of historical reenactment along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions to redo, restage and refigure historical memories. Launched in partnership with Washington University's Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Freund Visiting Artist program joins a similar collaboration between the Sam Fox School and the Saint Louis Art Museum, which was initiated in 1995.

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Freund Fellows
 Bruce Yonemoto and Ian Monroe win Freund Fellowships from Saint Louis Art Museum and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

June 12,
2009 --
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| Ian Monroe, The Tesseract |
The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis jointly announce the selection of artists Bruce Yonemoto and Ian Monroe as the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellows for the academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11, respectively. The Freund Fellowship consists of two month-long residencies in the Sam Fox School's Graduate School of Art and a Currents exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The collaboration was established in 1995.

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