Author: Liam Otten

The visual communications major has emerged as an outstanding performer, starring as Laura in The Glass Menagerie, among many other roles.

The Buenos Aires, Argentina, native successfully negotiates balance restrictions to create environments that are both functional & stirring.

The series highlights the interdisciplinary, the multicultural and the experimental; the season will open Oct. 21-22 with Slanguage.

Photo by Joe Angeles Forgotten Opportunity, an installation by School of Art senior Oliver O’Donnell, is part of the 19th annual University City Sculpture Series.

Courtesy imageSoweto Gospel ChoirThe Edison Theatre at Washington University in St. Louis will celebrate its 33rd year of exuberant dance, rich musical traditions and classic and cutting-edge theatre with the 2005-06 OVATIONS! Series. Founded in 1973, the OVATIONS! Series serves both the campus and St. Louis communities by presenting the highest caliber national and international artists performing works intended to challenge, educate and inspire. The series highlights the interdisciplinary, the multicultural and the experimental, through new works as well as through innovative interpretations of classical material not otherwise seen in St. Louis.

Winners were Highness by Carolyn Kras; Shades of Light Blue by Yuan Ji; Flick by Nicholas A. Loyal; and Chosen Family by Nick Rogers.

She joined the museum as curator in fall 1999 and regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

It will present works of Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach, today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era.

EckmannSabine Eckmann, Ph.D., will become director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis effective July 1, 2005, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Eckmann joined the Kemper Art Museum as curator in fall 1999 and also regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences. She succeeds Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts, who has led the museum since 1998. Weil, a longtime faculty member in art history, will retire June 30.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has announced winners for the 2005 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. Four student plays were selected in two categories. Full-length winners were Highness, by junior Carolyn Kras, and Shades of Light Blue, by junior Yuan Ji. Flick, by freshman Nicholas A. Loyal, and Chosen Family, by freshman Nick Rogers, won for short plays.