Video: ‘Adam Pendleton: To Divide By’
“Things are always happening at once,” Adam Pendleton said. “I want the paintings to be like that.” In this video, Pendleton, one of the most celebrated visual artists of his generation, talks about his artistic process and how painting echoes the movement of the body.
Go Your Own Way
A Journal for Building Self-Confidence
From the author of “Start Where You Are,” a beautiful and empowering journal for embracing what makes you special—and charting your own path.
Rising Above
The Wataru "Wat" Misaka Story
This dynamic picture book biography introduces readers of all ages to Wataru Misaka, the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA.
Ruppert-Stroescu to speak for TEDx St. Louis Women Oct. 27
Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, an associate professor and coordinator of the Sam Fox School’s Fashion Design program, will discuss the current state of sustainable fashion Oct. 27 as part of TEDx St. Louis Women: Two Steps Forward.
‘Printing Black America’
Artist William Villalongo and data scientist Shraddha Ramani will discuss their ongoing collaboration “Printing Black America: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century” Oct. 24. As the Sam Fox School’s 2023-24 Arthur and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artists, the pair will create new works for the series based on St. Louis.
Missouri Weird and Wonderful
“Missouri Weird and Wonderful” is a fast-paced, fact-filled collection of the most fascinating parts of life in our state, with a kid’s-eye point of view. Learn the many wild nicknames of our famous native amphibian, get an appreciation for how radical Scott Joplin’s ragtime music was in the early 1900s, and discover the entire branch of medicine that was born here.
21c Museum Hotel St. Louis showcases work by Carmon Colangelo
Over the last two years, Carmon Colangelo, a celebrated printmaker and dean of WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has worked with the new 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis to create artworks for all 173 guest rooms.
Risk Work
Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967–1987
How artists in the United States starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism and surveillance.
Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series begins Sept. 22
Artist Adam Pendleton, designer Kelli Anderson, Whitney curator Adrienne Edwards and architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are among an international array of creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series.
Campbell named 2023-24 Freund Fellow
Multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker and writer Crystal Z Campbell has been named the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts for the 2023-24 academic year.
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