Arts & Culture

Peter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). MacKeith received the award for the design studio “Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi,” which he led in the spring of 2007.

Peter MacKeithPeter MacKeith, associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture, has received one of three national Creative Achievement Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). MacKeith received the award for the design studio “Lighthouses: Adventures on the Mississippi,” which he led in the spring of 2007.

Irish poet and novelist Ciaran Carson will read from his work at 8 p.m. Monday, April 14, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. Born in Belfast in 1948, Carson is the author of nine collections of poems, including The Irish for No (1987) and Breaking News (2003), as well as four prose works, including the novel Shamrock Tea (2001), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Josiah Gerdts and Isabelle Chumfong, both first-year students in the School of Medicine, play the leads in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the spring musical production by School of Medicine students.

Below is a link to the Washington University news release about the U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings for 2004-05: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/3627.html To view a full listing of U.S. News magazine, book and Web-only rankings for 2004-05, please visit the U.S. News & World Report site: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Renowned Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun will join award-winning American poet Brian Henry for a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3. Šalamun has published more than 30 books of poetry, including nine collections in English. Henry is the author of five collections, most recently The Stripping Point and In the Unlikely Event of a Water.

CarlinWashington University’s Eliot Trio will perform a pair of piano trios by Edouard Lalo and Franz Schubert at April 10 in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Dedicated to performing masterworks of the piano trio literature, the group consists of Seth Carlin, professor of music and director of the piano program in the Department of Music; violinist David Halen, concertmaster for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; and cellist Bjorn Ranheim, also with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Photo by David KilperMiniature books have served many purposes, from political propaganda to curiosities.Throughout history, people have been fascinated by extremes, whether it’s the tallest mountain, the longest river or the deepest sea. Julian Edison is no exception — only instead of things large, it’s small books that fascinate him. Edison, a noted miniature book collector, is displaying approximately 200 of his volumes in the exhibition “Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures,” which recently opened at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Library.

Courtesy photo*My Brother is an Only Child*The Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will host the 2008 Italian Film Festival of St. Louis April 4 to 19. The festival will feature the St. Louis premieres of six recent Italian feature films, screened on Fridays and Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. All films will be shown in 35mm format in Italian with English subtitles.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — home to the nation’s oldest four-year fashion design program — will present its 79th Annual Fashion Design Show at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 30. The show, a fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza, is the concluding event of Saint Louis Fashion Week. The hour-long show takes place […]