In The News Week Of October 18

A new interdisciplinary hiring effort at WashU aims to recruit researchers to study environmental racism in St. Louis and other urban areas. The searches will bring three scholars to the university, including an assistant professor of landscape architecture with expertise in ecological systems, both natural and social, at the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture, and urban design. This group of new hires is part of the Office of the Provost’s Race and Ethnicity Cluster Hiring Initiative.

Aleida Ruelas Hertel (MFA-VA20) is among the artists who created the mural project Building Bridges, featured in this St. Louis NPR story. The artists worked with the Latinx Arts Network STL to secure a $10,000 innovation grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance for the project, which is located on the Loop Trolley Building and intended to spark conversations about the shared African experience in the Americas.

Lecturer Ben Kiel and Jesse Ragan discuss their independent digital foundry, XYZ Type, in this interview with Future Fonts. Started in 2017, XYZ Type merges their collective type and graphic design skills, technical know-how, and teaching backgrounds.

CoXist Studio—led by principals Frank Lin (MArch06) and Megan Lin (MArch06)—is featured in Austin Home’s list of Austin’s Best Architects of 2021. The publication also honored the firm with best kitchen design of the year for the Paramount Residence.

Kaden Chaudhary (BS24 in Architecture) was named a runner-up for the eighth annual McLeod First-Year Writing Prize, for the essay “WashU Undergraduate Admissions: Portrayal of and Catering to Economic Diversity.”

Panelists at the Fashion and Climate Change Climate Conversation include senior lecturer Jennifer Ingram and associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu. Presented by WashU Climate Change Program Oct 18 from 7:15p CDT at Schnuck Pavilion, Room 202

Megan Maguire Steele (BFA02), WashU Fashion Network co-chair and founder/owner of Maguire Steele will be moderating the WashU Fashion Law Alumni Panel Discussion on Oct 22 12:30-1:30p CDT. This is a virtual event.

Island Press’ booth at the Editions/Artists’ Books Fair 2021 (virtual event) Oct 18-31 features new and recent editions by Duane Slick, Paula Wilson (BFA98), Radcliffe Bailey, and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

Associate professor Linda C. Samuels will be speaking at the 2021 Vision Zero Cities Conference (virtual event) presented by Transportation Alternatives Oct 21 3:45p CDT.

Tracing Our Mississippi: Story Gathering and Field Studios by Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow Derek Hoeferlin (associate professor and chair, landscape architecture and urban design) and the Tracing Our Mississippi project team, including MArch candidate Nathan Stanfield and alum Paul Wu will be part of Exhibit Columbus’ Watershed Weekend Oct 22-23 from 10a-8p at Upland Columbus Pump House Columbus, IN.

Submit Watershed Stories for inclusion in the first collection through this link.

Join us for a Ribbon Cutting and Celebration on Oct 23 as we open the West End Park! Games, snacks, and fun from 11a-2p at West End Park (5900 Clemens Ave. 63112).

Take a trip through the Archives of The Fashion Group International of Saint Louis during its 85th Anniversary Celebration curated by associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu. Public viewing hours are Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays between Oct 6-16 from 11a-3p at The Designing Block, 7735 Clayton Rd. St. Louis