Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Art & Design Creative Perceptive Curious Collaborative WashU
2020-21
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Join our community of artists and designers. The Sam Fox School offers three primary degree paths: studio art, communication design, and fashion design. You can earn a degree with a deep studio focus, or one with a broader liberal arts orientation. Whether you want to publish illustrated books, create sculptural installations, design for public health initiatives, launch your own fashion line, produce aerial drone videos, or make interactive websites, you can forge an educational path to pursue a career in any field you choose.
STUDIO CULTURE
Studio is a place for collaboration and creative development. Our students are bright and driven, but they are also incredibly supportive of one another and engaged with social issues and the community. You will learn to make exceptional visual work with technical and conceptual depth, working with faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized in their fields.
CAREERS
Sam Fox School students are uniquely innovative, entrepreneurial, and engaged, and they find rewarding careers that match their vast ambitions. Many of our alumni become prominent artists and designers, but they also go on to diverse professions in business, law, medicine, public health, publishing, and writing. AREAS OF STUDY
Animation Book Arts Comics Design for Social Practice Fashion Design Foundry + Metalsmithing Graphic Design Hybrid + Experimental Media Illustration Interaction Design Installation Art Narrative Design Painting Photography Printmaking Sculpture Textile Design Typography Video + Time Arts Visual Reportage
“I know so much of what we do will really help me in the future as I navigate what it means to be a professional in the world.” Sparkle, Class of 2022 Major: BA in Design, Fashion Concentration, Second Major in Sociology Hometown: Justice, Illinois
“Artists really care about the community they live in. I think that’s something the Sam Fox School has done to help its students make a positive impact in the world.” Madeline, Class of 2019 Major: BFA in Communication Design Minor: Korean Language and Culture Hometown: Durham, North Carolina
We have expansive spaces for digital fabrication, woodworking and metalworking, textiles, and photography & video, as well as an integrated printmaking + book arts studio. Juniors and seniors have their own individual studio spaces. The School is also home to the world-class Kemper Art Museum and the Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library.
We offer semester and summer programs in Florence, Italy, where studio work is complemented by courses in Italian language and Renaissance art and architecture history, along with field trips around the region and Europe.
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