Occupational therapy clinic breaks ground in Delmar Maker District

Occupational therapy clinic breaks ground in Delmar Maker District

Over the last year, a team of architects, medical professionals and engineers from Washington University in St. Louis and Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have explored questions about building design and people’s health through interdisciplinary design studios and seminars. Now that research is bearing fruit. On Nov. 11, a new Smart Home for Occupational Therapy Healing — aka SMOOTH House — will break ground in St. Louis’ Delmar Maker District.
‘Lest We Forget’ opens Oct. 20

‘Lest We Forget’ opens Oct. 20

“Lest We Forget,” a public art installation by noted Italian-German photographer Luigi Toscano, will open Oct. 20 in WashU’s Ann and Andrew Tisch Park. The exhibition will feature nearly 100 contemporary, large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors — including 12 survivors now living in St. Louis.
Chakaia Booker’s ‘Shaved Portions’

Chakaia Booker’s ‘Shaved Portions’

As a young sculptor, Chakaia Booker collected scraps of ruined tires from the streets of lower Manhattan. The material was ubiquitous, malleable and symbolically resonant. Now “Shaved Portions,” one of Booker’s largest and most ambitious projects to date, has been installed on WashU’s Danforth Campus.
Media Advisory: Exhibit preview with artist Katharina Grosse

Media Advisory: Exhibit preview with artist Katharina Grosse

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a press preview of the exhibition “Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988-2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions” at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. The exhibition opens to the public the following evening.
‘FIELD-STATION’

‘FIELD-STATION’

In “FIELD-STATION,” a new mural for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Houston-based architectural practice HOME-OFFICE explores the confluence of forestry, activism and place-based research.
Johnson named Freund Teaching Fellow

Johnson named Freund Teaching Fellow

Dallas-based artist Tamara Johnson will serve as the Sam Fox School’s next Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow. Designed to promote the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, the appointment is sponsored in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum, which will present a solo exhibition of Johnson’s work in fall 2023.
Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series

Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series

Architects Hilary Sample and Thomas Phifer; artists Katharina Grosse, Derrick Adams and Meleko Mokgosi; and fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg are among the internationally known visual thinkers who will discuss their work as part of the fall Public Lecture Series sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
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