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Architect Francis Kéré to speak April 1

Francis Kéré’s buildings are at once humble and revolutionary — poetic, light-filled structures internationally celebrated for engaging regional craft traditions and indigenous, eco-friendly materials

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Derek Hoeferlin Releases Book on Three Major Watersheds Panel and Workshop at Pulitzer Arts Foundation April 3

Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor and chair of landscape architecture & urban design, released his book “Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture” this month.

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The air that inhabits: 2023 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition to open April 8

Eleven MFA in Visual Art candidates from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will show their work at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

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Olivia Baba, BFA '23, and Connor Seger, BFA '23, win Fashion Scholarship Fund honors

Baba is one of four finalists for the $25,000 Chairman’s Prize to be awarded April 3.

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Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor and chair of landscape architecture & urban design, released his book “Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture” this month.

Eleven MFA in Visual Art candidates from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will show their work at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Baba is one of four finalists for the $25,000 Chairman’s Prize to be awarded April 3.

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Mar 17, 2023 • Honors & Awards

Olivia Baba, BFA '23, and Connor Seger, BFA '23, win Fashion Scholarship Fund honors

Images of three artworks by Horatio Law, Catalina Ouyang, and Shelby Shadwell.

Mar 17, 2023 • Honors & Awards

2023 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards Announced

Event graphic with the words 2023 Awards for Distinction. Thursday, April 20, 2023.

Mar 3, 2023 • Honors & Awards

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Announces 2023 Awards for Distinction

Mar 3, 2023 • Honors & Awards

MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture Students Awarded Thesis Production Grants

Feb 15, 2023 • Honors & Awards

Two MFA-VA Candidates Awarded Scholarships for Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop

Dec 7, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Patty Heyda recognized by American Planning Association

Nov 22, 2022 • Honors & Awards

College of Architecture faculty awarded 2022 Faculty Collaborative Grants

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Nov 22, 2022 • Honors & Awards

International Textile and Apparel Association recognizes Sam Fox School faculty and students

Nov 18, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Jackson Feinknopf (MArch/MCM22) places second in Architecture Thesis of the Year 2022 international competition

Nov 18, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Two MFA students awarded Graduate Student Thesis Research and Production Grants

Nov 13, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Sparkle Whitaker (BA22) named top changemaker at Taco Bell Foundation's inaugural Ambition Accelerator Summit

Portraits of Carrie A. Johnson and David and Dorothy Kemper

Nov 13, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Carrie Johnson (BA89), David and Dorothy Kemper recognized at 2022 Founders Day celebration

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Sep 1, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Tamara Johnson Named 2022-23 Freund Teaching Fellow

Jul 6, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022-23 Fulbright Scholars Announced

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May 13, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Petra Kempf and Meredith Lehman win Divided City Faculty Collaborative Grant

A rendering of a man, paddling backwards in a rowboat in shappow water toward a triangular wooden structure, with tawny reeds and mountains in the misty distance.

May 13, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2021-22 Steedman Fellowship Awarded

May 4, 2022 • Honors & Awards

MFA-IVC student Danielle Ridolfi wins WashU NEXT Award

Chapter President Sara Poetting (left) and Chapter President-Elect and Sam Fox lecturer Alexandra Mei (right) with scholarship winners Allyssa Gray and Kaiti Burger (MLA).

Apr 18, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 ASLA St. Louis Student Honors

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Apr 14, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 Awards for Distinction

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Apr 11, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards

Drawing of a sleeping white rabbit on a deep gold background with a few green tufts of grass and a flower with a navy blue step and orange top.

Mar 25, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition

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Mar 16, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 Fitzgibbon Charrette

Photo of four team members in orange shirts holding an oversized check, in front of a digital screen for 2022 PCI Design Awards

Mar 8, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Project Precast 2022 Competition

Two students stand around another one, helping arrange a wire-like dome structure around the middle student's head.

Feb 18, 2022 • Honors & Awards

2022 Laskey Charrette

Contamination (Hermaphroditus and Salamacis)

Feb 16, 2022 • Honors & Awards

Spring 2022 Media Artists in Residence