‘Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection’
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.
WashU architecture in Venice
Six projects created by Sam Fox School faculty, students and alumni are featured in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and associated exhibitions.
Ahrens named chair of graduate architecture
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.
I Make Envy on Your Disco
A novel
It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a 37-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the […]
Mrs. Tan’s Grand Plan
A Children's Rhyming Storybook About Music, Friendship and Community
This children’s book tells the story of the Bright Birds, a colorful group of young birds living in a town where families often lead separate lives. The narrative unfolds as Mrs. Tan devises a grand musical plan that brings the young birds together, illustrating how music can bridge divides and foster community connections. This beautifully […]
Violet is Blue
Amazon bestseller, Suburban Fiction Violet Sellers is blue, and for good reason. She’s holding a shocking secret she won’t tell anyone, especially her comfortably middle-class parents. When she befriends Jules Marks, who lives on the “other side of the tracks” with his five little sisters, she is introduced to a dark world of self-abuse. As […]
Where the WashU community goes to see art in St. Louis
St. Louis is known nationally for its excellent (and free) art. Here, staff, faculty, students and alumni of WashU share their favorite places to view visual art around St. Louis during the summer.
Ethical exotics
Kahan Chavda, BSBME ’16, co-founder of Inversa, a company pioneering the field of ethically harvested leathers, workshops with Sam Fox School students on how engineering and fashion design can support endangered ecosystems.
Hello Kitty, McDonald’s and K-pop
From West to East and back again, an Arts & Sciences course uses pop culture and food to examine East Asia and globalization.
A man of letters
A surprising donation of correspondence to WashU Libraries last winter is starting to yield new insights into the life of poet Howard Nemerov.
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