AI + Design
WashU students and faculty are cutting through the hype and grappling with artificial intelligence.
Designing woman
Molly Maginnis Tippe, BFA ’73, talks about what it’s like to be a costume designer for stage, film and TV.
Himes wins Visionary Trailblazer Award
Ron Himes, in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Visionary Trailblazer Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education during the group’s 2023 national conference.
Allen curates Pulitzer Arts Foundation exhibition
“Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis,” a new exhibition curated by WashU’s Michael Allen, will open Sept. 8 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
G’Sell wins $50,000 Rabkin Prize
Eileen G’Sell, a senior lecturer for the College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, has won a 2023 Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism.
Adventure
An Argument for Limits
What is the meaning of “adventure” as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? What stories are humans telling about wilderness, remote destinations, and the most difficult thoughts thinkable?
‘Adam Pendleton: To Divide By’
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents “Adam Pendleton: To Divide By,” an exhibition that spans the past five years of the renowned artist’s practice, with a marked emphasis on abstract composition.
Sam Fox School, AIA St. Louis announce ‘Care,’ 2023 Steedman competition
Architecture shelters and protects. But what if architecture also tended to the health of society and of the planet? That’s the question posed by “Care,” the 2023 James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture biennial research competition.
Himes wins Black Theatre Network Lifetime Award
Ron Himes, the Henry E. Hampton, Jr. Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Black Theatre Network Lifetime Award during the organization’s 2023 national conference.
Nell Plants a Tree
A picture book that shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living center of a loving, intergenerational Black family. Before her grandchildren climbed the towering tree, explored its secret nests, raced to its sturdy trunk, read in its cool shade, or made pies with its pecans… Nell buried a […]
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