• Associate Professor, College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

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• B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at University of Kansas

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The St. Louis Projection at St. Louis Public Library April 16-18 Internationally renowned projection artist Krzysztof Wodiczko examines questions of loss and healing with large-scale public artwork April 15, 2004 -- Krzysztof Wodiczko's The St. Louis Projection, a poignant and provocative community art project about the shattering effects of violence and the healing power of public discourse, will be broadcast onto the St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive St., from 9 to 11 p.m., April 16, 17 and 18.

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A most unlikely father and son CBS Evening News / Assignment America and 6 others Aug. 13, 2007 -- This past Friday, on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman's "Assignment America" segment featured the special relationship between WUSTL architecture professor Bob Hansman and his adopted son Jovan.

Hansman founded City Faces in 1993. The program has received numerous awards, including a World of Difference Award and recognition in Coming Up Taller: The Report of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, both in 1996; a Missouri Arts Award and a resolution from the Missouri House of Representatives in 1997; and an award from Colin Powell's America's Promise campaign in 1999.

In 1997 Hansman moved his own studio and part-time living space into the Clinton-Peabody public housing projects, from which he runs the Jermaine Lamond Roberts Memorial Art Studio. The youth at the studio have worked on numerous community art programs and have become peer-teachers with other youth in the housing projects. The program also tries to partner financial supporters with employers who can offer the youth professional, art-related employment.

Hansman has served on the Mayor's Darst-Webbe public housing revitalization focus group and works with the St. Louis Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Coalition's Youth Art Program. He is on the Advisory Board for the CoLibri Housing Cooperative and is a professional advisor for the YouthBuild charter school plan. He has served as an instructor for The Department of Parks and Recreation's Project Artspark and for the Children's Art Circuit for youth in Juvenile Detention. He has received several Bi-State Development Agency Arts in Transit grants and is currently serving on the Arts in Transit artist review panel for community project proposals.

In addition to his drawing and painting, Hansman is an accomplished designer of stained glass. Major projects include the Missouri Baptist Hospital Chapel and the Anheuser-Busch Tourist Center.

Hansman received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1970 and was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society in 1997.