Author: Liam Otten

*The Great General Mighty Wing*Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Japanese manga, or comic books, in the United States, yet Korean comics remain relatively unknown. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Korean Comics: A Society through Small Frames, a rare U.S. exhibition of work from both North and South Korea. Organized and curated by The Korea Society, the exhibition provides a decade-by-decade glimpse of the evolving social realities in contemporary Korea, as depicted in comics ranging from popular children’s entertainment to aggressive forms of political commentary.

*screens*Windows shape and frame, both literally and figuratively, the ways we see the world around us. Interfaces represent the points of contact between different systems, spaces and entities — for example, the screen, the mouse or the keyboard that connects the computer with the human user. In August, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Window | Interface, an exhibition highlighting the use of windows and interfaces as both boundaries and sites of transaction between machine and mind, data and perception, the world of the body and the world of the imagination.

Jeffrey MarlowJeffrey J. Marlow, a senior in Arts & Sciences, is one of 20 students nationwide named to the 2007 All-USA College Academic First Team, USA Today’s recognition program for outstanding undergraduates. Two other Washington University students were named to the third team and one student received honorable mention, resulting in WUSTL tying with the University of Alabama for the most students selected in the newspaper’s competition.

Over the past year, six faculty and students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have planned, created and installed a series of large-scale artworks for the Grace Hill Water Tower Health Center, 4308 North Grand Ave.

Patricia OlynykPatricia Olynyk has been named director of the Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Olynyk is an internationally known artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences. She previously served as professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, as well as a research associate professor in Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute.

Carlene Nicholson Juncker, instructor in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences from 1973-1981 and a 1959 alumna, died of cancer Sunday, May 13, 2007.

Patricia Olynyk has been named director of the Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Olynyk is an internationally known artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences.

From 8-10 p.m. July 12, saxophonist Willie Akins and the Miles Vandiver Quartet will launch Jazz at Holmes Summer Nights, a five-week series of free jazz concerts on Thursdays.

James RichardsThe Gateway Festival Orchestra will begin its 44th season of free Sunday-evening performances with “All American,” a concert highlighting the varied genre of this country’s music — from classical works to patriotic tunes and the music of Hollywood and Broadway. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. July 8 in Washington University’s Brookings Quadrangle. Subsequent concerts take place July 15 and 22 in Brookings Quadrangle and July 29 in Graham Chapel.

The Gateway Festival Orchestra of St. Louis begins its 44th season of free Sunday performances at 7:30 p.m. July 8 in Brookings Quadrangle. Concerts continue through July.