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Designing Better Tools

Four Sam Fox School students served as the inaugural design consultants in WashU’s Digital Transformation Research Corps, ensuring AI-based tools were designed with human users in mind.

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Making Things, Together at Milkwood

Illustration as a field — unlike the studio arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics — does not have a long history of artist residencies.

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Bonvehi Rosich, Denizen win 2026 J.B. Jackson Book Prize

Their 2025 book, “Thinking Through Soil,” explores the world’s largest wastewater agricultural system, centering soil as a way to a better environmental future

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Stas Orlovski named 2026 Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist

Orlovski will make work and give a public lecture while in residence at Island Press

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Four Sam Fox School students served as the inaugural design consultants in WashU’s Digital Transformation Research Corps, ensuring AI-based tools were designed with human users in mind.

Illustration as a field — unlike the studio arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics — does not have a long history of artist residencies.

Their 2025 book, “Thinking Through Soil,” explores the world’s largest wastewater agricultural system, centering soil as a way to a better environmental future

Orlovski will make work and give a public lecture while in residence at Island Press

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Oct 2, 2026 • Students

Designing Better Tools

Oct 2, 2026 • College of Art

Making Things, Together at Milkwood

Sep 29, 2026 • Art faculty newsfeed

Dingwall publishes “Black Designers in Chicago”

Sep 25, 2026 • Arch faculty newsfeed

Bonvehi Rosich, Denizen win 2026 J.B. Jackson Book Prize

Sep 22, 2026 • Arch faculty newsfeed

Mumford to speak in Barcelona, Cincinnati

Sep 22, 2026 • College of Art

Stas Orlovski named 2026 Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist

Sep 22, 2026 • Alumni

Alumni News - September 2026

Sep 18, 2026 • Arch faculty newsfeed

Hoeferlin, Denizen presented at Living Earth Collaborative Symposium

Sep 17, 2026 • Alumni

Kesler, MLA ’26, named Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar

Four people explore an outdoor park installation with paved stone pathways and tall, perforated metal display panels under bright sunlight.

Sep 17, 2026 • Socially Engaged Practice

Sam Fox School to expand Office for Socially Engaged Practice

Sep 14, 2026

Alberti campers sketch, build and dream big

Sep 11, 2026 • University Announcement

Sam Fox School faculty, students participate in WashU AI Perspectives Week

A person leans against a vending machine of hair products and smiles at the camera with their arms crossed.

Sep 11, 2026 • Students

‘Hair is my identity’: Sam Fox fashion designer sells textured-hair products from Village vending machine

Sage Dawson, Eternal Loop: Lavender Lattice (2026) Reductive linoleum cut and acrylic on canvas

Sep 4, 2026 • Faculty

Dawson shows solo exhibition, “Soft Architecture,” at Principia College

Sep 4, 2026 • Faculty

Laker to speak at "Leading with Listening: Modernizing Public Health Communication in a New Information Age," Sept. 23

Sep 4, 2026 • Socially Engaged Practice

Bernstine participates in keynote panel at Association for Community Design’s annual conference

Anabeth and John Weil Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, featuring its prominent glass-curtain wall facade and the surrounding sculpture garden at dusk.

Sep 2, 2026 • In the News

Niche ranks WashU among top U.S. programs for art, architecture, and design

a faculty member showing a student how to create a Japanese wooden box

Sep 2, 2026 • Sam Fox School Announcement

Fox Fridays announced for Fall 2026

Sep 2, 2026 • Faculty

Professors Olynyk, Craver participate in online lecture series in collaboration with Harvestworks

Sep 2, 2026 • MFA-VA Faculty Research

Monika Weiss to share recent work in WashU’s Environmental Research Collaboration Series

Aug 28, 2026 • In the News

Hendrix reviews "Hometown" by Shaun Tan in The New York Times

Aug 27, 2026 • Island Press Announcement

Island Press at Chicago’s IN / PRINT

Aug 27, 2026 • Honors & Awards

Lecturer Kaitlin Sampson, MLA ’25, wins ASLA Student Award

Aug 27, 2026 • Kemper Art Museum

Dana Ostrander, assistant curator of modern art, juries St. Louis Artists’ Guild exhibition

Aug 27, 2026 • Alumni

Alumni Sleet, Schwaiger open exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery