In the News: Week of October 4
2021-10-05 •
Jess T. Dugan, Shira (hot tub), 2020.
Dugan's feature in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jane Henderson reviews 2020-21 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Jess T. Dugan‘s Currents 120 exhibition for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Dugan’s photographs capture light and shadows, couples and individuals, in the continuation of work focusing on desire, connection, intimacy and gender,” Henderson writes.
HEC-TV features Wilson's Kemper Museum exhibition
HEC-TV presents a video featuring the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Teaching Gallery exhibition Colonizing the Past: Constructing Race in Ancient Greece and Rome. Curated by senior lecturer Kathryn Wilson (Arts & Sciences), the exhibition is on view through December 27.
Work from Precast Concrete Enclosures Seminar Featured on Facade Tectonics
Facade Tectonics features the work of architecture students from assistant professor Pablo Moyano‘s spring 2021 seminar Precast Concrete Enclosures. The class was awarded $50,000 as part of a 4-year PCI Foundation grant in collaboration with Gate Precast to lay the foundation of applied research in precast concrete building enclosures.
A conversation with senior lecturer Heather Bennett is featured in issue 2 of REMAKE, published by WashU’s College Writing Program. Senior lecturer Eileen G'Sell (Arts & Sciences) talks with Bennett about her artistic practice, including the role writing plays in her art-making.
Allen Presents Paper at Mass Housing Across the Soft Iron Curtain Workshop
Senior lecturer Michael Allen will present the paper “The Shadow of the High-Rise: Postwar Debates Over the Form of US Public Housing” as part of the Mass Housing Across the Soft Iron Curtain: Connecting the US and Yugoslavia workshop funded by WashU’s Divided City initiative from 10:45a CET October 4 in Belgrade, Serbia.
AIA Continuing Education Workshop on Asian American Architects and Their Impact on St. Louis
The AIA Continuing Education Workshop series presents Asian American Architects and Their Impact on St. Louis, featuring presentations by assistant professor Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, Rod Henmi, FAIA, NOMA (MAUD83), and Young-Hie Nahm Kromm, AIA (BA69, MArch71). The workshop will take place from 6-8p CDT October 6 via Zoom. This is a paid and ticketed event.
Ruppert-Stroescu Presents at Fashion Group International Panel
Associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu is among the St. Louis fashion changemakers, designers, and thought leaders taking part in the panel Fashioning the Future: Voices & Visions from the Saint Louis Fashion Scene. Presented by Fashion Group International, this paid and ticketed event will take place from 12p CDT October 8.