Author: Liam Otten

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will conclude its fall season with a series of December concerts.

St. Louis Cold Storage CompanyThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is accepting registrations for its 2008 Steedman Traveling Fellowship Competition. Granted since 1925, the biennial Steedman Fellowship is open to citizens of all countries with not more than eight years of experience following receipt of a professional degree in architecture. The competition carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Iconic Blonde Film Festival Dec. 4-6. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture,” the festival will feature screenings of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Dec. 4, “Vertigo” Dec. 5 and “Bonnie and Clyde” Dec. 6.

Washington University Dance Theatre, the annual showcase of professionally choreographed works performed by student dancers, will present its 2007 concert “rEvolutions,” Nov. 30-Dec. 2 in Edison Theatre.

Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s most distinguished authors, will deliver the keynote address, “The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration,” as part of Washington University’s sixth annual faculty book colloquium “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors.” Her talk will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in Holmes Lounge.

Washington University alumna Kathleen Finneran, author of the memoir “The Tender Land: A Family Love Story” (2003), will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The talk, part of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ fall Reading Series, is free and open to the […]

Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been ranked 5th in the nation by Architect magazine in its first annual education survey. The survey, published in the magazine’s November issue, examined all 117 programs recognized by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Washington University alumna Kathleen Finneran, author of the memoir The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (2003), will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.

Courtesy photoJoyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates, one of America’s most important and distinguished authors, three times nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, will deliver the keynote address, titled “The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration,” for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” Washington University’s sixth annual faculty book colloquium.

Andy Warhol, *Marilyn 1/10,* 1967.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Iconic Blonde Film Festival Dec. 4 to 6. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, the festival will feature screenings of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Dec, 4), Vertigo (Dec. 5) and Bonnie and Clyde (Dec. 6).