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Saturday, November 19

Chakaia Booker: 'Shaved Portions'
19 Nov

Chakaia Booker is renowned for her artistic practice that pushes the limits of abstraction through the use of her signature material—discarded rubber tires...

Ervin Scholars: Honor the Legacy
19 Nov

The John B. Ervin Scholars Program honors the memory of a nationally renowned educator and community leader who believed in giving students a first-rate...

Help build the Peace Park bamboo pavilion
19 Nov

Peace Park is an ongoing project that was initiated by the 2015 "For the Sake of All" report that documents significant health inequities in the St. Louis...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 12:00 AM
Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood
19 Nov

Leaving China is an exhibition of work by accomplished artist James McMullan that focuses on watercolor paintings about his childhood during World War II....

Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste Land
19 Nov

The Waste Land by St. Louis native TS Eliot was published in 1922 and forever changed literature. The Life in St. Louis 1888-1905: T.S. Eliot’s First Waste...

Ron King, Hick, Hack, Hock, 1995. Julian and Hope Edison Collection, Washington University Libraries
19 Nov

The Miniature Museum is a new series of exhibitions in which books are displayed as sculptural objects in a custom-built dollhouse museum. The first...

Stories From World War II
19 Nov

The "Stories From World War II" exhibition brings together stories from the Second World War told through special collections. A variety of personal accounts...

The Dust
19 Nov

Love and Mortality. Existence and Destruction. These are the tensions at play in Hsu Yen Ling’s "The Dust." The play presents a series of seemingly...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 12:00 AM
Translation : Dramaturgy
19 Nov

“Translation : Dramaturgy,” is supported by a grant from the Republic of China (Taiwan) and features presentations by translators working in a variety of...

Valuable Dregs: Research in the William Gaddis Papers
19 Nov

Novelist William Gaddis famously shunned the spotlight and dismissed attempts to tie his private life to his creative work. However, Gaddis also kept an...

Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols: Selections from the Collection of Tim Huskey
19 Nov

Tim Huskey has been collecting Cardinals baseball memorabilia since he was five years old, when he stood in line to get an autograph from his favorite...

2022 Fall Open House: The Graduate School
19 Nov

The Office of Graduate Studies, Arts & Sciences is pleased to announce a 2022 Fall Open House! The open house will be held Saturday, November 19 from 9:00am...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Glaser Gallery Exhibit: 'How did we get hear? Historic hearing devices, 1800-2000'
19 Nov

The hearing aids we are familiar with today are both tiny and mighty, but they weren’t always that way. This exhibit highlights the long history of hearing...

Ambivalent Pleasures: Advertiser Content in American Art
19 Nov

This installation prompts the question of how the visual culture of marketing and markets influences our lives. Bringing together modern and contemporary...

Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions
19 Nov

Katharina Grosse is internationally celebrated for her large-scale, on-site works that she paints across built and natural environments. To date, less focus...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Katharina Grosse: On the Edge of Something Else
19 Nov

The renowned contemporary artist Katharina Grosse, whose exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions is on view...

String Division Recital
19 Nov

Students in the String Division will present solo works.

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Public Tour: Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings
19 Nov

Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 2:00 PM
Public Tour: Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings
19 Nov

Student educators lead interactive tours of this season’s exhibition Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revision, Inventions. The...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 2:00 PM
Women's Basketball McWilliams Tournament
19 Nov

Come and support our Women's basketball team as they host the McWilliams Tournament!

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 5:00 PM
The Dust
19 Nov

Love and Mortality. Existence and Destruction. These are the tensions at play in Hsu Yen Ling’s "The Dust." The play presents a series of seemingly...

Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 8:00 PM

Saturday, November 19