Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Edited by D.B. Dowd, professor of visual communications in the School of Art, and 2002 alumnus M. Todd Hignite, The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics investigates a series of key themes and moments in the history of comics. Angela Miller, Ph.D., associate professor of art history & archaeology in Arts & Sciences, observes […]

Eric Mumford, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Urban Design Program in the School of Architecture, will speak on “Modern Architecture in St. Louis” at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in Steinberg Auditorium. Mumford recently edited Modern Architecture in St. Louis: Washington University & Postwar American Architecture, 1948-1973 (2004), the first in-depth survey of modern […]

This fall, the Sam Fox Arts Center began construction of two buildings designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. When completed in 2006, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall will be integrated with the adjacent Bixby, Givens and Steinberg halls to form a state-of-the-art, five-building arts […]

At the Kemper Art Museum through Dec. 5, it will showcase nearly 50 pieces by 38 artists, both current faculty and emeriti.

Kevin LowderA bike rack designed by senior James Lewis was inspired by the movements of Soulard Market patrons.

The Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis will present its first annual Festival of the Arts from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1. The event, which will feature a variety of student-led arts activities, is free and open to the public and takes place on the grounds of Bixby, Givens and Steinberg halls, located adjacent to one another near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. Food and beverages will be available. For more information, call (314) 935-9347.

Russ RosenerRuss Rosener, “Lost in Skool” The Washington University School of Art Faculty Show will open in the University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30. The all-media exhibition will showcase close to 50 pieces — ranging from video and installation to prints, drawings, painting, sculpture, graphic design and fashion design — by 38 artists, including both current and emeriti faculty.

Michael Bierut, principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, will launch the Washington University School of Architecture’s fall Monday Night Lecture Series Sept. 13 with a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture on Graphic Design, Big and Small.

The principal designer for Pentagram Design in New York, he’ll present a Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture Sept. 13 on “Graphic Design, Big and Small.”

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.