Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Sean Scully, *Untitled* (1989), Oilstick and watercolorThe Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present American Art on Paper from the 1960s to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection Jan. 23 to April 18. The exhibiiton includes 47 prints, drawings and photographs by 31 nationally and internationally known artists.

William Merritt Chase (American 1849-1916), *Courtyard of a Dutch Orphan Asylum* c. 1884, Oil on canvas on boardAll roads may lead to Paris, but for 19th century American painters, many at least traveled through St. Louis. In January, the Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present Painting America in the 19th Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The exhibition includes works by 13 major American painters — many of whom lived or worked in Missouri.

Shimon Okshteyn, *Alarm Clock*, 2001, Lithograph, CollagraphIsland Press, the School of Art’s professional printshop, will host a special, one-time-only holiday sale Dec. 14. The event will feature works by nationally and internationally known artists at steeply discounted prices.

Photo courtesy of Visual Media Center, Columbia UniversityAmiens CathedralStephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18.

Sheet music for the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”Selections from the 1902 stage musical The Wizard of Oz by St. Louis native Paul Tietjens will highlight a concert of 19th- and early 20th-century popular song at the Washington University Gallery of Art Friday, Nov. 7.

Master carpenter Tamotsu Edo of Awajishima, Japan, will work with students from the Washington University School of Architecture to construct and install a traditional Japanese teahouse waiting bench, or koshikake machiai, in the university’s Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden.

Courtesy photoAn alternate ITC Galliard (1978) italic letter “g” drawn for Cherie Cone.Matthew Carter is perhaps the preeminent type designer of the latter 20th century, his work featured in Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated magazines as well as The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post, among many others. The Washington University School of Art will survey Carter’s distinguished career with the exhibition Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter, on view at the Des Lee Gallery Oct. 10-Nov. 29.

The Washington University Gallery of Art will host An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Iain Boyd Whyte, professor of architectural history at the University of Edinburgh, will speak for the Washington University Gallery of Art at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Steinberg Auditorium.

Wang Haichen, *Garden Blues* (2002), porcelainChina boasts one of the world’s oldest and richest pottery traditions, yet only in recent years have Chinese ceramicists begun to emerge as individual “studio artists,” rather than collective practitioners. The Washington University School of Art’s Des Lee Gallery explores this burgeoning “new age” in Chinese Ceramics Today: Between Tradition and Contemporary Expression, an exhibition of works by 23 contemporary ceramicists from mainland China and Hong Kong.