In The News Week Of September 27

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo II, a solo exhibition by José Guadalupe Garza (MFA-VA13, academic programs coordinator for the Kemper Art Museum), received a superb review in Art in America. The show debuted at the High/Low gallery in St. Louis and is now on view at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) gallery through October 14, with an opening reception from 5:30-8p CDT September 30.

Eric P. Mumford‘s book review of the fifth edition of Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture: A Critical History is featured in the September edition of Architectural Record. Mumford is the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School. Frampton will be on campus to deliver the Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture on October 21 and participate in an October 22 panel discussion on Mumford’s book, Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850.

Patterhn Ives is featured in A South Forty: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South, an exhibition that coincides with the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Partners Anna Ives (visiting assistant professor), Eric Hoffman (MArch05), and Tony Patterson (MArch06) founded the full-service architecture practice in 2014. The exhibition is on view through November 21.

Kaden Chaudhary (BS24) has been selected as a finalist for the eighth annual McLeod First-Year Writing Prize, for the essay “WashU Undergraduate Admissions: Portrayal of and Catering to Economic Diversity.” Chaudhary will be recognized at The CWP Presents: WashU Writing Showcase at 5:30p CDT September 29.

VoyageSTL interviews Tay Tuteur (BFA18) about their work, from branding, website design, and illustration for a variety of projects that embrace diversity and aim to improve the community, to commissioned projects including pet portraits, coffee shop merchandise, and online blog publications.

The Divided City Graduate Fellows Colloquium will feature PechaKucha-style research presentations by fellows, including Nathan Stanfield (BS18, MArch22), from 12-1:30p CDT via Zoom on Monday, October 4. RSVP is required through link.

Fire Ecologies, a musical and visual experience featuring video by Zlatko Ćosić (MFA-VA11), composition by Christopher Stark, and a live performance by Unheard-of/Ensemble, will take place from 7-8p CDT September 30 at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer (BFA99/BA99, Sam Fox School communications specialist) will take part in the Poetic Justice Event Series: Online Public Reading and Q&A, presented by Fordham University, from 10:30a-11:45p CDT via Zoom October 1 (RSVP required).

Mapping the Middle: Design Research Conversations—featuring the 2020-21 Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellows, including associate professor Derek Hoeferlin (chair, landscape architecture and urban design)—will take place from 12:30-4p CDT October 2 at First Christian Church courtyard in Columbus, IN.