Apr 18
View this email in your browser ABOUT: Welcome to the third edition of the Celebrating Art for Senior Engagement newsletter! This is the first area wide festival dedicated to our community’s older adult population. The festival will be from Thursday, 28th April to Sunday, 7th May 2016 and will showcase creative work, promote arts-related aging …
Jan 29
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St.Louis has announced the recipient of Dean’s Medal will be Leslie J. Laskey! Congratulations Leslie!!! From the website: “Passionate. Challenging. Inventive. Inspiring. Leslie J. Laskey is an accomplished teacher and artist who influenced generations of students during his 35-year tenure at what was then …
Nov 09
Maturity and Its Muse has just wrapped up one of its busiest weeks of community involvement and betterment. Recapping: Monday-we were at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis for our monthly KARE program. Memory Care friends from Sunrise Senior Living came …
Oct 07
Community Day is this Saturday from 11a – 3p! Mildred Lane Kemper Museum is partnering with students from the Architecture School Council to offer a variety of architecture-themed drawing and building stations, including LEGO and Sukkah City stations. It should be lots of fun for everyone. In addition to 2 permanent collection tours, our own Leslie …
Jul 22
Maturity and Its Muse is pleased (and button popping proud) to announce that Meredith Malone, Associate Curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis, has agreed to serve as co juror for the show entitled, Maturity and Its Muse. As previously announced …
May 16
Architecture Studio Explores Aging Concepts in Design Studio Instructor Peter MacKeith, Sam Fox School Photo: Courtesy Washington University in St. Louis Institute of Public Health By 2017, for the first time in human history, the number of adults over age 65 will outnumber children under the age of five. As our demographics shift, designs for …
Apr 15
If you are in the vicinity of Forest Park, St. Louis, MO on May 7, 2014 at 10:30 am Make Plans to Attend The Silver Stages Series: Mature St. Louis Performers for Mature St. Louis Audiences and watch a special screening of “From Jim Crow to Barack Obama” An award winning documentary Featuring inter-generational conversations …