Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Uta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries since 1945 at 6:30 p.m. March 22 in Brown Hall Auditorium.

Courtesy photoUta GrosenickUta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries worldwide since 1945 for Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Jeff PikeJeff Pike, dean of the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art, has been named the first Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, according to dean Carmon Colangelo, the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration in the Arts. The professorship was made possible by a gift from Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr., both of whom hold degrees in art from Washington University. A formal installation ceremony took place Feb. 27.

Hoal’s firm, H3 Studio Inc., was one of five selected to lead the Unified New Orleans Plan, which will coordinate rebuilding in the city’s 13 planning districts. He’ll discuss his work at 6:30 p.m. March 5 in Whitaker Hall Auditorium.

Cultural geographer Olaf Kuhlke will speak on competing representations of nationhood in post-Wall Germany for the Kemper Art Museum at 6:30 p.m. March 8 in Brown Hall Auditorium.

Paul DonnellyPaul Donnelly, AIA, PE, the Rebecca and John Voyles Chair in Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Donnelly is one of only five professors nationally to receive the honor, which recognizes sustained creative achievement in architectural education.

Courtesy photoOlaf KuhlkeCultural geographer Olaf Kuhlke will speak on competing representations of nationhood in post-Wall Germany March 8 for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Kuhlke, assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, investigates the construction of nationalism and its expression in public spaces. His recent study Representing German Identity in the New Berlin Republic (2004) examines how various social and cultural movements have utilized the human body and metaphors of nature to represent German national identity.

David KilperJohn HoalJohn Hoal, Ph.D., associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, will speak about his recent work in New Orleans at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, as part of the spring Architecture Lecture Series. Last fall Hoal’s firm, H3 Studio Inc., was one of five selected to lead the Unified New Orleans Plan, which will coordinate rebuilding in the city’s 13 planning districts.

With so much attention given to transportation, many people are surprised to learn that buildings are the single largest contributor to global warming. Yet in the United States, buildings are responsible for almost half (48%) of all greenhouse gas emissions. On Feb. 20 the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host The 2010 Imperative: A Global Emergency Teach-In, a live web-cast exploring the relationship between ecology and design.

303 Gallery, New YorkCollier Schorr, *Lina, Opening Braid, Bettringen*Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Germany has re-emerged as a potent intellectual and creative center within the international art world. This month, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis opens Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the first thematic museum exhibition to examine how contemporary artists have dealt — both directly and indirectly — with the social, economic and political ramifications of German unification.