Spring art lectures + public programs

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce its public programs related to art and design for spring 2020. The lineup includes lectures by Michael Joo, Kyle T. Webster, Pablo Helguera, Rob Giampietro, Valentina Castellani, Wafaa Bilal, Dan Graham, and others, plus the annual BFA exhibitions, Fashion Design Show, and MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition at the School’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

A complete list of the Sam Fox School’s public programs, including those related to architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, can be found here. Details about the School’s Public Lecture Series can be found here.

Applications for the MFA in Visual Art and the MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture programs are open through February 3. Apply now.

Artist talk: Abbey Hepner & Alicia Plemmons
January 21, 5:30pm, Steinberg Auditorium

MFA in Visual Art Open Studios + Island Press Open House
January 25, 4–8pm, Weil Hall and Bixby Hall

Lecture: Michael Joo
Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture
February 3, 5:30pm reception, 6pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Kemper Art Museum spring exhibitions opening
–Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965
–Truths and Reckonings: The Art of Transformative Racial Justice
–Tomás Saraceno: Aerocene Tata Inti – Event Horizon – Aerocene, Launches at White Sands
February 7, 7–9pm, Kemper Art Museum

Exhibition opening: BODY SCRN MEME
February 7, 6–9pm, Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave.

Lecture: Kyle T. Webster
Graduate School of Art MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture Lecture
February 19, 6pm reception, 6:30pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Pablo Helguera
Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture
February 20, 5:30pm reception, 6pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Reinhard Bek
February 24, 6pm, Kemper Art Museum

Film screening + Q&A: This Movie is a Gift (Anja Salomonowitz, 2019)
February 29, 5pm, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Rob Giampietro
Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture
March 2, 5:30pm reception, 6pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Music at the Kemper: Darmstadt School
March 5, 6pm, Kemper Art Museum

Lecture: Valentina Castellani
Women and the Kemper Public Lecture | Co-sponsored by Olin Business School
March 18, 6pm, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Wafaa Bilal
Graduate School of Art MFA in Visual Art Open House Lecture
March 20, 5pm reception, 5:30pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Natilee Harren
March 23, 6pm, Kemper Art Museum

Lecture: Alexander Alberro
April 1, 6pm, Kemper Art Museum

BFA in Art Junior Exhibition
April 3, 6–9pm, Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave.

Kemper Live: Transformation through Movement
April 4, 11am, Kemper Art Museum

Lecture: Evgeny Svyatsky of AES+F
Graduate School of Art MFA in Visual Art Lecture
April 6, 5:30pm reception, 6pm lecture, Steinberg Auditorium

Lecture: Dan Graham
Art on Campus Lecture
April 7, 6pm, Steinberg Auditorium

BFA in Art Capstone Exhibition, Part 1
April 9, 6–9pm, Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave.

BFA in Art Capstone Exhibition, Part 2
April 17, 6–9pm, Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave.

BFA in Communication Design Capstone Exhibition
April 23, 5pm, Steinberg Hall Gallery

91st Annual Fashion Design Show
April 25, 7pm, Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall

MFA in Visual Art First-Year Exhibition
May 1, 6–9pm, Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave.

Kemper Art Museum summer exhibitions opening
–2020 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition
–Christine Sun Kim: Off the Charts
–Amy Sillman: After Metamorphoses
–Global Vistas: American Art and Internationalism in the GIlded Age
May 8, 7–9pm, Kemper Art Museum