The 76th Annual Fashion Design Show

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo ServicesWedding gown by Barbara MoranThe Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis will present The 76th Annual Fashion Design Show at Saint Louis Galleria Sunday, May 1. The fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza will feature dozens of professional and volunteer models wearing more than 100 outfits created by 13 seniors and five juniors from the school’s fashion design program.

Rafael Campo

Acclaimed writer and physician Rafael Campo will read from his work at 7 p.m., Friday, April 15, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art (through April 24).

A Concert on Women’s Mental Health

Washington University’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present A Concert on Women’s Mental Health at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The performance, which will feature compositions based on poems by Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, is free and open to the public and held in conjunction with the exhibition Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.

‘A craftsman at heart’

Breathing lessons with Allen Ginsberg. Blowgun practice with William S. Burroughs. Ken Botnick could tell some stories. But in many ways, Botnick, professor of visual communications and director of the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book, has dedicated his career to facilitating the stories of others. Over the past 25 years, Botnick has […]

Couture creations

Photo by Kevin LowderSenior Langley Snyder models a gown by classmate Caitilin Black for guest judge Susan Barrett at the recent “Gowns in the Gallery.”

Marilyn Hacker

HackerAward-winning poet Marilyn Hacker will read from her work at 7 p.m. Friday, March 18, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The author of 11 books of poetry and essays, Hacker is a cancer survivor and prominent lesbian activist as well as an influential literary editor and a gifted translator. Much of her work details her own struggles with breast cancer and the loss of friends to AIDS. The talk sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Kemper Art Museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art.
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