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The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is a leader in architecture, art, and design education.

We are advancing our fields through innovative research and creative practice, excellence in teaching, a world-class university art museum, and a deep commitment to addressing the social and environmental challenges of our time. Through the work of our students, faculty, and alumni, we are striving to create a more just, sustainable, humane, and beautiful world.

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Upcoming Public Lecture Series

Kelli Anderson, “This Book is a Camera” (2015).

Dec 7 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium

Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture: Kelli Anderson

Artist, designer and animator Kelli Anderson will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture.

Known for reinventing commonplace objects in ways that disrupt audience expectations, artist, designer, and animator Anderson is the creator of — among other projects — “This Book is a Camera” (2015), a pop-up book that transforms into a working camera, and “This Book is a Planetarium” (2017), which explores how paper taps into larger phenomena of light, time, sound and mathematics.

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