Arts & Culture

“Retina Burn” is an annual concert designed to showcase the skills that student lighting designers have learned during their studies in the Performing Arts Department. This year’s event will return April 25 to Edison Theatre.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present “Cry It Out,” Molly Smith Metzler’s darkly comic exploration of class, friendship and motherhood, April 18-21 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.

Inspired by global travel, alumnus Lavar Munroe creates dreamlike versions of our world.

As an architect and as co-chair of Make Way: Our Student Initiative, Carrie Johnson seeks to construct places of belonging.

WashU alumni are writing and illustrating the books you wish you could have read as a kid — increasing diversity one picture book at a time.

Aki Ishida, an associate professor and interim associate director of the School of Architecture at Virginia Tech, has been named director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Sam Fox School will present WashU’s 95th Annual Fashion Design Show April 27 in Ridgley Hall, Holmes Lounge. One of the oldest such shows in the nation, the event will feature dozens of models wearing scores of outfits that together explore the intersection of clothing and culture.

Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit, an assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a 2024 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present both a performance and a two-day gathering on artistic research at WashU’s Tyson Research Center. Organized by postdoctoral researcher Anya Yermakova, the events build on her scholarship, her creative work and her current seminar, “Topics in Embodied Communication: Listening.”