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Architizer shortlists project by Chandler Ahrens in its A+ Architecture +Ceiling category

The project was created for Sophie’s Artist Lounge, a venue of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

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MAS Context features essay by Derek Hoeferlin

The essay comes from Hoeferlin’s forthcoming book, Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture.

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Lynn Peemoeller to moderate Rice Design Alliance Civic Forum on Food Equity

The annual event examines urban and design topics that are critical to the Houston region but which also have a larger national and international relevance.

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Stars Design Group collaborate with Sam Fox 2D Fashion Design students

The course was taught by associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, and the students included Olivia Baba, Zinaida Calixte, Mackenzie Llewellyn, Maddie Savitch, and Connor Seger.

A bar indoors with aurora colored ceiling details

A satellite view of earth with the Mississippi river highlighted in North America

Birds eye view of a worker in a rice field

Students examine fabric samples on a rack

A bar indoors with aurora colored ceiling details

The project was created for Sophie’s Artist Lounge, a venue of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation.

A satellite view of earth with the Mississippi river highlighted in North America

The essay comes from Hoeferlin’s forthcoming book, Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture.

Birds eye view of a worker in a rice field

The annual event examines urban and design topics that are critical to the Houston region but which also have a larger national and international relevance.

Students examine fabric samples on a rack

The course was taught by associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, and the students included Olivia Baba, Zinaida Calixte, Mackenzie Llewellyn, Maddie Savitch, and Connor Seger.

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Students examine fabric samples on a rack

May 18, 2022 • College of Art

Stars Design Group collaborate with Sam Fox 2D Fashion Design students

A young woman with a walker modeling a fairytale green and gold dress pauses on a fashion design show runway and smiles to an applauding audience.

May 12, 2022 • College of Art

Fashion Design Show Debuts Adapative Formalwear

May 9, 2022 • College of Art

Class Acts: Bo Schmit

May 4, 2022 • College of Art

MFA-IVC student Danielle Ridolfi wins WashU NEXT Award

Counterpublic

May 4, 2022 • College of Art

Counterpublic 2023 participants announced

Side-by-sideheadshots of Heather Snyder Quinn and Seth Denizen

May 3, 2022 • College of Art

Heather Snyder Quinn and Seth Denizen Join Faculty

Exterior photo of the three-story, contemporary building Weil Hall, with three levels of windows lit up at dusk. Additional campus buildings can be seen in the background; an orange Alexander Calder sculpture is visible in the foreground.

Apr 14, 2022 • College of Art

2022 Awards for Distinction

Three-panel image, featuring a detail view of a red textile with vibrant repeating, kaleidescopic patterns that include a person in a yellow garment, two graphite sculptures with etchings protruding from the water, and a cylndrical sculptural installation of bricks and straw.

Apr 11, 2022 • College of Art

2022 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards

Black-and-white photo of a large church on the corner of a street, with trees to the sides.

Apr 4, 2022 • College of Art

Acts of Love and Resistance

View of Kahlil Robert Irving's solo exhibition at MoMa

Mar 28, 2022 • College of Art

In the News: Week of March 28

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 • College of Art

2022 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition

Mar 14, 2022 • College of Art

Faculty Announcements: Mónica Rivera and Monika Weiss

Museum installation featuring a large-scale, 11-panel work, configured as a square with a hole in the middle, featuring various, brightly painted scenes of people. Single artworks with cream-colored backgrounds and text are hung on the walls to the left and right.

Mar 10, 2022 • College of Art

Mokgosi to Serve as Spring 2022 Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist

A dimly lit space, fluorescent lights illuminating the edge of a raised level of see-through architectural forms: two people sit in chairs below, as if sunken into the ground, so that they can see above the partitions into the vast space. Another person stands in the background.

Mar 8, 2022 • College of Art

In the News: Week of March 7

Painted panorama featuring a variety of objects on a bright blue and gold background.

Feb 16, 2022 • College of Art

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Research and Production Grants

Three side-by-side images of a model wearing three different dresses made of recycled fabrics.

Feb 7, 2022 • College of Art

Reimagining Textile Production

Amy Hauft working on a sculptural installation.

Feb 2, 2022 • College of Art

In the News: Week of January 31

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.

Jan 26, 2022 • College of Art

Spring 2022 Public Lecture Series

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

Jan 24, 2022 • College of Art

Spring 2022 Fox Fridays Workshops

Exterior photo of the three-story, contemporary building Weil Hall, with three levels of windows lit up at dusk. Additional campus buildings can be seen in the background; an orange Alexander Calder sculpture is visible in the foreground.

Jan 10, 2022 • College of Art

Sam Fox School Announces 2022 Awards for Distinction

Dec 18, 2021 • College of Art

Making Waves in Sustainable Swimwear

Jamie Harris in at the pottery wheel in the ceramics studio, working to shape clay.

Dec 16, 2021 • College of Art

Harris Wins Horizon Award

Black-and-white photo of an open, snowy landscape, with a person bent at the waist, their face close to a snowbank.

Dec 13, 2021 • College of Art

MFA in Visual Art Production Grants Awarded for Fall 2021

Students in PPE look on as red hot melted steel is poured into a mold

Dec 9, 2021 • College of Art

B.A. Sunderlin Bellfoundry Apprenticeship

Billboard featuring a landscape with a mounded green hill and the words Double Presence in all-caps, set in an outdoor area with trees and grass.

Nov 22, 2021 • College of Art

In the News: Week of November 22