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Spring 2022 Public Lecture Series

18 presentations including Tatiana Bilbao, Maya Muchawsky Parnas, Nicole Miller, and other renowned artists, architects, designers, and scholars

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Spring 2022 Fox Fridays Workshops

This semester will feature 16 workshops, beginning February 11, that are open to all members of the WashU community.

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Pressing Innovation: Printing Fine Art in the Upper Midwest

Island Press is among five presses participating in this exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art.

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Infrastructural Optimism

In this Q&A, Linda C. Samuels discusses her new book, the current political moment, and the resurgence of the common good.

At left, a hand-drawn architectural sketch of a residential building plan. At right, a conceptual architectural collage featuring a woman walking away across a concrete path bordered by green grass on one side an a blue reflecting pool on the other.

Two people in full PPE/welding masks using a torch for bronze casting.

Print with multiple rectangular regions; much of it is black-and-white, with some bright red areas, including one with an animal head, and one black block with some neon green.

Aerial photo of construction work on a new viaduct project in Los Angeles, with the city skyline in the background.

18 presentations including Tatiana Bilbao, Maya Muchawsky Parnas, Nicole Miller, and other renowned artists, architects, designers, and scholars

This semester will feature 16 workshops, beginning February 11, that are open to all members of the WashU community.

Island Press is among five presses participating in this exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art.

In this Q&A, Linda C. Samuels discusses her new book, the current political moment, and the resurgence of the common good.

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Jan 18, 2022 • Research

Infrastructural Optimism

Large-format diagram of small, floating lilypad clusters interspersed with falling pink umbrellas, arranged in a pattern.

Nov 18, 2021 • Research

The Nature of Place

Pair of portraits, featuring Yvonne Osei on the left, partially obscured by a colorful artwork, and Jon Young on the right, standing in front of a purple, wall-mounted sculpture with a green scorpion.

Oct 20, 2021 • Research

10th Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award Program

Axo rendering of Loom Room basket-like designs

Oct 14, 2021 • Research

Van Dyck Murphy Studio Wins Ann Arbor Alleyway Project

Two people inspect a platform built to hold a white topographic landscape model.

Oct 11, 2021 • Research

In the News: Week of October 11

Photo of a covered walkway outside a single-story building; to the left of the walkway are two-level rows of lush plants blooming with red, pink, and white flowers.

Oct 4, 2021 • Research

Global Incubator Seed Grants Awarded

Image of a physical model of the neighborhood featuring a land "bridge" and labeled features such as a park, university, highway, and community.

Sep 30, 2021 • Research

Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest 2021

Scaled orthographic rendering, SAMARA House floor plan

Sep 23, 2021 • Research

SAMARA House Survey Wins National Architectural Honors

Sep 23, 2021 • Research

Toppins Explores History of Madame Binh Graphics Collective

Illustration of a crowd of animals, people, and vehicles, all headed in one direction, largely in tones of red, orange, and yellow.

Sep 7, 2021 • Research

In the News: Week of September 7

An orange sky with abstracted smoke emerging from unseen several smokestacks.

Aug 31, 2021 • Research

2021 Steedman Fellowship Applications

Portrait of Mark Fox in studio, with vibrant paintings on the walls behind him.

Aug 23, 2021 • Research

In the News: Week of August 23

Aug 9, 2021 • Research

In the News: Week of August 9

Illustration with text to the left which reads, "Kannagi in the Tamizh epic Silappadikaram, Kannagi, anguished by the unlawful execution fo there husband, tore off her left breast and threw it at the city of Madurai in South India, causing it to go up in flames." Image of Kannagi right, where she raises her left arm, pointing above, with yellow flames behind her.

Jul 26, 2021 • Research

In the News: Week of July 26

Photo of a páramo—a high-elevation ecosystem featuring succulent-like plant life in the foreground, with a water feature in the middle and mountains in the distance.

Jul 6, 2021 • Research

2021 Living Earth Collaborative Seed Grants

Jun 25, 2021 • Research

2021 Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows Program

Rendering of a grassy area next to a street, reimagined as a space to grow tall bamboo.

Jun 23, 2021 • Research

2021-22 Creative Activity Research Grants

Jun 17, 2021 • Research

Lee Selected as HistoryMakers Ambassador

Three-panel image: (left) a sepia-toned photograph of a smiling dancer in a leotard; (middle) a white billboard-like sign on the ground with a yellow top; in black type, it says "Nortpark and St. Louis County Executive Not Fair and Square With What the "TIF" Stands for Dealing with Kinloch Businesses! Please Be Aware When You Deal With...Northpark" and (right) Several kids playing soccer on the blacktop, with multilevel concrete buildings in the background.

May 7, 2021 • Research

2021 Divided City Faculty Collaborative Grant Winners

Person with blue life jacket stands in the foreground, in front of the waterfront and bridge. In the background, students prepare to get into canoes.

Apr 13, 2021 • Research

Watershed Moments

Conceptual rendering of an open-air installation, featuring design boards and models, with a path through the middle for people to walk through.

Apr 6, 2021 • Research

Tracing Our Mississippi

Three individual are crouched down outside. The one in the middle is holding a blue clipboard, and all three are looking at it.

Mar 2, 2021 • Research

Africa Initiative Pilot Grants

Detail from a brightly colored five-panel paper collage that includes flowers, butterflies, chains, belts, fabric, and a headless body dressed in a blue and red outfit.

Dec 1, 2020 • Research

Beauty & Lamentations

Photo/illustration collage featuring an illustration of a person wearing a green hoodie and orange pants by Dmitrit Jackson next to a photo of Jackson. In the background are panels of Jackson's comics against a largely pink background.

Nov 12, 2020 • Research

Drawing from Life

Archival pigment print featuring rubble and construction in the foreground with a couple of cranes, and shining, silver buildings in the background, with the sun reflecting off the facade of one.

Nov 11, 2020 • Research

Nickels from Heaven