Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis

Vanessa German is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewoodthe community that is the driving force behind her powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics form the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. Her online lecture on November 11, 2020, was supported in part through funding from Washington University's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity: Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program, as well as by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Corey Escoto (MFA07) gave an interactive talk about his artwork and life, followed by a Q&A, on November 3, 2020. The talk was presented by the Sam Fox School's MFA in Visual Art program.

This semester, students in our undergraduate programs have been taking a mix of in-person, hybrid, and online courses. Here’s a peek inside our first-year architecture studio! We have taken numerous measures to provide a safe, on-campus learning environment for our students, faculty, and staff. To learn more, visit insidesamfox.wustl.edu/covid-19.

Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, originally delivered this lecture, titled The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa: Recomposing Place, Intertwining Time, Transforming Reality, on October 15 via Zoom. If you were unable to attend, you can watch the video here or on the Sam Fox School YouTube channel, where we will be sharing many of the lectures from our fall Public Lecture Series.

Thanks to all the participants in our inaugural Pumpkin Carving Contest and Glow, and congrats to the winners: Odette James (First Place), Natsuko Nozaki and Yuwei Yang (Second Place), Stephen Barany (Third Place), and Lily Leonard (People's Choice).

Thank you for joining us last night for the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture by Deborah Berke. If you were unable to attend, you can watch the video here or on the Sam Fox School YouTube channel, where we will be sharing many of the lectures from our fall Public Lecture Series.

Graduate art students from our MFA in Visual Art and our MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture programs met last week for an actual in-person, socially distant, (really awesome!), joint open studio event. Check out their work in progress, and see more student work in on the program pages of our website: https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/node/4145 Studios from all of our graduate programsIllustration & Visual Culture, Visual Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban D...esignare located in our brand-new building, Weil Hall. Prospective students can learn more about our new facilities and our grad programs by visiting us virtually at one our fall open houses Nov. 18 (grad arch. programs) and Nov. 19 (grad art programs) or through a National Portfolio Day event. (Email us for details!) #SamFoxSchool #WashU #MFA

Thank you for joining us on Zoom for the lecture by cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis. If you were unable to attend, you can watch the video here or on the Sam Fox School YouTube channel, where we will be sharing many of the lectures from our fall Public Lecture Series.

Margarita Jover originally delivered the Abend Family Visiting Critic Endowed Lecture, titled Cities & Rivers, on October 12 via Zoom. If you were unable to attend, you can watch the video here or on the Sam Fox School YouTube channel, where we will be sharing many of the lectures from our fall Public Lecture Series.

On Monday, please join us for the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Trust Lecture by Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, architect, educator, and founder of the New York-based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners. Free & open to all | Register here: https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/events/lectures/13974 Berke leads the firm alongside her ten partners. Among the firm's most significant works are the Residential Colleges at Princeton University, the Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters, ...the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia, the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and the 21c Museum Hotels across the South and Midwest. In 2017, Deborah Berke Partners was honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Berke is the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, the first woman to hold the position. She has been a professor at Yale since 1987. In 2012, she was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at the University of California at Berkeley, which is given to an architect who has advanced the position of women in the profession and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and the community. She is a board member of the James Howell Foundation, a member of the board of directors of Yaddo, and an advisor to the Norman Foster Foundation. She serves on the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the field. Berke is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The City University of New York. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. #SamFoxSchool #WashU #Architecture #Lecture

Please join us tomorrow at 6p CDT when cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis will deliver the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture online. Free and open to all; register here to get the link: https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/events/lectures/14079 Davis' books include How To Be Happy, You and a Bike and a Road, Why Art?, and The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook. Her latest graphic novel, The Hard Tomorrow, is out now from Drawn and Quarterly. Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Google, The National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Students in associate professor Derek Hoeferlin’s seminar Field Work 2.0 [Reality + Remote???] have been collaborating with Big Muddy Adventures @paddlestl on research excursions on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. As a hybrid course, students can participate in person (actual canoes!) or via Zoom in real time (virtual paddling!). Students will generate hybrid drawings and mappings from their field work that question what reality is and what remote is, seeking out new tools of representation during these complicated times. #SamFoxSchool #WashU #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture #UrbanDesign #MississippiRiver # @ derek_hoeferlin_design @washu.architecture @washu.urbandesign @washu.landscapearchitecture

Monday, Monday! Please join us for "Cities & Rivers," a lecture by Margarita Jover, co-founder of the Barcelona-based firm aldayjover architecture and landscape and associate professor in architecture at Tulane School of Architecture. Abend Family Visiting Critic Endowed Lecture: Margarita Jover October 12 | 5:30p CDT via Zoom | Free + open to all ... Learn more about Jover's work and register for the event here: https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/events/lectures/13972 #SamFoxSchool #WashU #Lecture #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture #Design #UrbanDesign

Thank you for joining us last night on Zoom for the conversation between artist Jamal Cyrus and Stephanie Weissberg, associate curator at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation! We apologize for the techinical difficulties that prevented us from livestreaming the lecture here, as planned, but we hope you will check it out at your convenience.

This Wednesday (hey, that’s tomorrow!), please join us for an online conversation between artist Jamal Cyrus and Stephanie Weissberg, associate curator at @pulitzerarts. Cyrus' work interrogates and commemorates political and social struggles, specifically those of the African diaspora and Black people. Weissberg is curator of the current Pulitzer Arts Foundation retrospective exhibition "Terry Adkins: Resounding." (Adkins was also Cyrus’ mentor!) Wednesday, October 7 at 6p ...CDT via Zoom + Facebook Live | Free and open to all! | Register through website to participate in Zoom: samfoxschool.wustl.edu/events/lectures/13973 | Part of the MFA Lecture Series #SamFoxSchool #WashU #MFA #Art #JamalCyrus Images: 1. Lights from the Garden, 2019. Bentwood chairs, stainless steel rods, oak ooring. 74 x 87 1/2 x 31 . 2. Pride Record ndings-Tokyo, 2005-2016. Collage on paper, wood paneling, wood shelving, plastic bags. 99 1/2 x 99 1/2 x 4 . 3. Book sleeve prototype for W.E.B. Dubois’s Encyclopedia Africana, 2016. Drum skin, books, twine. 11 x 4 3/4 x 8 5/8.