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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,
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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,
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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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MFA Thesis Exhibition
at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 8 to July 27
May 1,
2009 --
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| Hye Young Kim, Awakening Moment I |
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The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 8 to July 27. The exhibition will feature thesis projects by 27 master of fine arts candidates in the Sam Fox School's Graduate School of Art. Works will explore a wide range of thematic territory, from formal concerns to social issues, ecological simulations and scientific research. Media include painting, printmaking and sculpture as well as photography, video and site-specific installation.
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Runway Projects:
Sam Fox School to present 80th Annual Fashion Design Show March 29
March 20,
2009 --
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Fashion is fun, challenging, inspiring and everywhere. It is also hard work. Next week 11 seniors and seven juniors from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — home to the nation's oldest four-year fashion design program — will present the fruit of their labors in the school's 80th Annual Fashion Design Show Sunday, March 29, at Lumière Place Casino & Hotels.
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New dean to guide College of Art
Franklin "Buzz" Spector named dean of art in Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Feb. 25,
2009 --
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Franklin "Buzz" Spector, professor and former chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has been named dean of the College and Graduate School of Art, both part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Spector also will hold the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professorship of Art. The appointment, effective July 1, was announced by Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts.
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"The Future of the Image"
W.J.T. Mitchell to speak on visual culture March 2
Feb. 24,
2009 -- W.J.T. Mitchell, the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of Art History and English at the University of Chicago, will speak on "The Future of the Image" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the Etta Eiseman Steinberg Auditorium as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring lecture series. An award-winning teacher, scholar and theorist of media, art and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology—the study of images across the media.
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Architects and artists to speak
Sam Fox School launches spring Public Lecture Series
Jan. 20,
2009 -- Beverly Fishman, head of the painting department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.
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Winners announced:
Architectural competition reinvents St. Francis de Sales children's theater
Oct. 24,
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A team of six graduate and undergraduate architecture students — led by graduate teaching assistant Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' Community Service Competition. The competition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned 8,000-square-foot children's theater located on the campus of St. Francis de Sales church, 2653 Ohio Ave. (63118), popularly known as "the Cathedral of South St. Louis."
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Eco-fashion
Sam Fox School and Fashion Group International to host sustainable fashion symposium Sept. 18
Sept. 2,
2008 --
Can eco-fashion outgrow its granola image? On Sept. 18 the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the St. Louis chapter of Fashion Group International (FGI) will explore that question with "Eco-Watch...Creating Fashion Solutions." The evening-length symposium will feature a keynote address by Jana Hawley, Ph.D., professor and department head for Apparel Textiles and Interior Design at Kansas State University, as well as a panel discussion with local fashion professionals
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Bold Strokes and Finesse:
The Stage Designs of John Ezell at Des Lee Gallery Sept. 11 to Nov. 22
Aug. 22,
2008 --
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St. Louis native John Ezell is one of contemporary theater's most influential scenic designers. Over the last five decades the Washington University alumnus has created hundreds of sets for major regional, national and international companies and festivals. Next month the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' Des Lee Gallery will present Bold Strokes and Finesse: The Stage Designs of John Ezell. The exhibition will include drawings, models, painter elevations and other material surveying the breadth and scope of Ezell's work.
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