Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Photo by Joe Angeles Forgotten Opportunity, an installation by School of Art senior Oliver O’Donnell, is part of the 19th annual University City Sculpture Series.

She joined the museum as curator in fall 1999 and regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.

EckmannSabine Eckmann, Ph.D., will become director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis effective July 1, 2005, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Eckmann joined the Kemper Art Museum as curator in fall 1999 and also regularly teaches seminars in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences. She succeeds Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts, who has led the museum since 1998. Weil, a longtime faculty member in art history, will retire June 30.

The $25,000 gift they received for this award will benefit the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and Springboard to Learning.

The show is comparable to a Broadway-style revue, filled with lights, music, drama and, of course, glamorous costumes.

The event is called “Exploring the History of Art”; Weil has been associated with the University for 47 years.

The William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s highest honor, the Search Award, was awarded to John F. McDonnell and Sam Fox at the 38th annual Eliot Society dinner held April 13 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton.

The Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences will present Exploring the History of Art, a symposium honoring Mark S. Weil, Ph.D., at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building. Weil, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts as well as director of the Sam Fox Arts Center and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, is retiring this June. He has been associated with Washington University for 47 years.

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.

On campus, Duhme is perhaps best known for his large bronze sculpture Fighting Bears near the Athletic Complex.