Author: Liam Otten

Veteran St. Louis trumpeter Kasimu Taylor will launch the fall WashU Jazz Series with a performance Sept. 8 at the 560 Music Center’s Pillsbury Theatre.

Four short films by WashU students premiered as part of the 25th Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.

Architecture critic and theorist Aaron Betsky, conceptual artist Mark Dion and prominent collector Komal Shah will discuss their work this fall for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Black Rep will launch its 49th season with “Raisin,” a lost “treasure of musical theatre” (New York Times) based on Lorraine Hansberry’s iconic family drama.

Monika Weiss, a professor of art at the Sam Fox School, is featured in exhibitions at the Silas von Morisse Gallery Viewing Room and the A.I.R. Gallery, both in New York.

William J. Maxwell has been installed as the inaugural Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. A lecture and reception to celebrate his appointment were held recently in Whittemore House.

This fall, the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection.” Spanning nearly eight decades and featuring nearly 70 artists, the survey places leading contemporary practitioners in dialogue with an earlier generation of artists whose work anticipated current discussions of figuration and abstraction as well as identity and power.

Six projects created by Sam Fox School faculty, students and alumni are featured in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and associated exhibitions.

Rising WashU junior Madison Yue has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York.

Associate Professor Chandler Ahrens has been named chair of graduate architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The new role took effect July 1.