Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

The Sam Fox Arts Center will dedicate a new School of Art studio building in honor of St. Louis community leaders Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Dec. 10. Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall will be located at the southeastern end of the Hilltop Campus, immediately north of […]

Medical information design is just one of the issues to be explored as part of the national symposium, co-sponsored by the School of Art and the Center for Aging.

A major gift from Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman will create a state-of-the art numismatic museum as part of the Sam Fox Arts Center, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Dec. 10. The Newman Money Museum will house exhibitions and audiovisual displays on a variety of topics relating to the history of coins and currency, […]

“For universities, the question is, ‘How can we look to the future and take a lead role in terms of planning, facilities and operations?'” organizer Peter MacKeith says.

The Gallery of Art will host “An Evening With Comic Artists Charles Burns and Gary Panter” at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Steinberg Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and is organized in conjunction with the St. Louis Comic Art Show, a one-day event held downtown at the City Museum, 701 […]

Distinguished scholar Iain Boyd Whyte, professor of architectural history at the University of Edinburgh and a senior visiting program officer for the Getty Grant Program, will speak on “Expressionist Architecture” at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 for the Gallery of Art. The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in Steinberg […]

Also opening are complementary exhibitions Painting America in the 19th Century and American Art on Paper From the 1960s to the Present.

Tamotsu Edo will work with School of Architecture students to construct and install a “koshikake machiai” in the Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden.

The School of Art is welcoming the new year with its Danforth Scholars Show. The exhibition, on view at the school’s Des Lee Gallery through Jan. 30, showcases the work of five current or recent graduate students: Jill Downen, Brandon Anschultz, Grant Miller, Yoshihiro Kitai and Alison Bates. A reception for the artists will be […]

New York architect Mariano Sagasta has won the University’s 2004 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. The biennial competition, which is open to young architects from around the world, carries a $30,000 first-place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States. Sagasta, who earned a bachelor […]