Arts & Culture

Richard WunschPatrick DoughertyEnvironmental artist Patrick Dougherty will launch the fall Visiting Artist Lecture Series, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, with a talk at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Marty SohlAlonzo King’s LINES BalletAcclaimed dancer/choreographer Alonzo King, founder and artistic director of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet in San Francisco, will take part in a public panel discussion on “Understanding Dance as the Language We Embody” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. The talk comes as part of a residency sponsored by a grant from the National College Choreography Initiative. The grant will support a variety of workshops and master classes with both King and Arturo Fernandez, ballet master for LINES, Sept. 12-23.

Uhan Shii, an award-winning Taiwanese theatre group, will visit campus Sept. 18-26.Uhan Shii, an award-winning Taiwanese theatre group, will visit campus Sept. 18-26 and offer a public performance of the narrative opera “My Journey” at the Saint Louis Art Museum auditorium at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.

LaRussaThe Washington University Assembly Series will have an unorthodox start to its fall schedule with a talk by Cardinals’ manager, Tony La Russa at 11 a.m. Sept. 7 in Graham Chapel. The rest of the series features speakers on a wide range of topics including politics, economics, writing, history, religion, medicine, literature, evolution, space exploration, social justice and the Holocaust.

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

GiulianiNational hero and legendary New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani will headline this year’s Founders Day celebration, which will be held on Nov. 5 at America’s Center. In addition to the talk, the event will include the presentation of awards for distinguished alumni and faculty, as well as the Robert S. Brookings Awards.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is currently constructing two new buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki. Photo by Stan Strembicki, professor of art.The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis will reconfigure its nationally ranked programs in architecture and art, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Effective immediately, the School of Architecture will be organized as the undergraduate College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. Similarly, the School of Art will become the undergraduate College of Art and the Graduate School of Art.

Some of the country’s leading scholars of jazz and American culture will teach at Washington University’s National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for High School Teachers July 4-29. “‘Teaching Jazz as American Culture’ will offer participants an exciting opportunity to learn about one of the most extraordinary art forms the United States has ever produced,” says Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., Washington University’s Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Summer Institute. “The instructors in the institute are among the most noted jazz scholars, writers and composers in the country,” says Early, “and the high school teachers’ exposure to this collection of expertise should be both enriching and inspiring.”

James RichardsThe Gateway Festival Orchestra will launch its 42nd season of free summer concerts with “Midwest Musical Masters,” highlighting composers and young artists from Missouri and Illinois, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 10, in Washington University’s Brookings Quadrangle. The orchestra is conducted by James Richards, professor of orchestral studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Subsequent concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 17, 24 and 31.

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.