Author: Liam Otten

Ronald Leax, the Halsey Cooley Ives Professor of Art, has been named dean of art, according to Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Leax will lead the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art, succeeding Jeff Pike, the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professor in Art.

Outstanding Graduate, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Graduate School of Architecture

Photo by Joe AngelesOver the last several months, a group of architecture students have designed two projects to help rebuild neighborhoods and communities in New Orleans.

Bob Hansman, associate professor of architecture and artist-in-residence in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture, and his son, Jovan, were honored at FOCUS St. Louis’ 11th annual “What’s Right With The Region!” awards ceremony May 7.

Rebecca J. DeRoo, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history & archaeology in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2008 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for her book “The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968.”

Legendary news producer Lynne “Angel” Cooper Harvey, wife of broadcaster Paul Harvey, died Saturday, May 3, at the couple’s home in River Forest, Ill., following a long battle with leukemia. She was 92. Born and raised in St. Louis, Angel — as she was universally known — earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English from Washington University and worked at local radio station KXOK-AM, where she met Paul, her husband of 68 years.

St. Thomas Seven Pepper Hot Sauce is one of the hottest pepper sauces in New Orleans, grown and bottled at God’s Vineyard Community Garden, 918 Felicity St. Yet like much of the city, this nonprofit farm was severely affected by Hurricane Katrina. Over the last several months a group of St. Louis architecture students have collaborated with garden founders Earl Antwine and Noel Jones to reestablish God’s Vineyard by designing, building and installing a new chicken coop. At the same time, the students also have been working with the Good Work Network on redevelopment plans for the Franz Building, located at 2016 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. The latter project was recently named a finalist in the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition.

Courtesy PhotoFaculty from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences gathered at Whittemore House April 30 to celebrate the 90th birthday of Annelise Mertz, professor emerita in dance.

This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating the life and work of neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer with a special exhibition on view May 2 through July 21.

The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, at Umrath Hall Lounge as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. Performances are sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and are free and open to the […]