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Tristan Dumas (left) plays Mr. Darcy, Ella Sherlock is Charlotte Lucas and Hope McKinney is Lizzy Bennet. (Photo: Danny Reise/WashU)

Three faculty members from WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy — have been named University Design Research Fellows for the 2024-25 cycle of Exhibit Columbus.

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In some situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. But over the last year, the interdisciplinary SAIL lab, with help from WashU Rowing, has explored nonvisual means for transmitting real-time performance feedback.

Can we ever see too much data? Yes, actually. In certain situations, visual overload can paralyze decision-making. Adding one more screen, one more monitor, one more chart, table, ticker or graph becomes counterproductive.

Larissa FastHorse’s Broadway hit comes to Hotchner Theatre Nov. 21-24

Monika Weiss, a professor of art at WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, was trained in piano but then branched into visual art and beyond. Her works encompass many formats and senses. She recently installed “Metamorphoses (Sound Sculpture),” at St. Louis' Laumeier Sculpture Park.

Group exhibition grapples with climate crisis, explores human entanglements with the natural world

An audience assembles in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Grigg Gallery earlier this fall. On Dec. 6, more than 150 WashU musicians will perform in spaces throughout the museum as part of its Festive Fridays series. (Photo courtesy of Saint Louis Art Museum)

Original works by resident, guest dance artists to explore notions of time

Sam Fox speaks at the dedication of WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in 2006. (Photo: Stan Strembicki/Sam Fox School)