Studios & Facilities

Opened in fall 2019, Anabeth and John Weil Hall is a hub for our graduate programs in Visual Art, Illustration & Visual Culture, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design. Designed by the firm KieranTimberlake, the 82,000-square-foot facility includes studio spaces across graduate programs; exhibition and project spaces; communal spaces for socializing and working; and numerous resources for making, including an experimental studio for video, film, and time-based media. The building achieved LEED Platinum status—the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest certification.

Want to see more of our facilities and maker spaces without leaving the comfort of your couch? Take our 360º tour.

>> samfoxschool.wustl.edu/admissions

Weil Hall

Weil Hall offers ready connections to the facilities and maker spaces in the School’s six-building complex.

MFA-VA Studios

MFA-VA studios are located across the south side of Weil Hall’s second and third floors, providing abundant natural light. Each student gets their own, 180-square-foot, loft-style studio space. Installation spaces throughout the studio areas allow students to convene for critiques, student-curated exhibitions, and impromptu gatherings.

Whitney Curtis / Washington University

Whitney Curtis / Washington University

Kuehner Court

Adjacent to studios, Kuehner Court in Weil Hall offers a welcoming space to relax and work, and includes a lush, two-story living green wall.

James Ewing / JBSA

Wood and Metal Shops

The School’s wood and metal shops are staffed by expert teaching technicians. Walker Hall houses wood and metal shops, plaster and mold-making, foundry, and ceramics facilities, including several kilns. Interior courtyards in Walker and Weil, along with numerous exterior spaces, provide opportunities for large-scale investigations.

Caleres Fabrication Studio

The Caleres Fabrication Studio supports complex projects and digital fabrication, featuring industry-grade tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers, a large-format CNC milling machine, vacuum and thermoforming, and a knife plotter. Special workshops, including Fox Fridays (see p. 2), provide students opportunities to learn to use these tools.

Printmaking and Book Studio

The School has a new, integrated printmaking atelier for letterpress, etching, lithography, and illustrated books. The space includes the Dubinsky Printmaking Studio, which features very large, electrically powered etching presses and Island Press, our collaborative printmaking workshop (see p. 8). A collaboration with University Libraries, the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book is a working book and print production facility that includes equipment for letterpress, intaglio, photopolymer plate, and silkscreen processes.

Joshua White / JWPictures.com

Des Lee Gallery

MFA-VA students are provided numerous opportunities to exhibit their work, both on and off campus. Located in downtown St. Louis, the Des Lee Gallery is one of the School’s many exhibition spaces. Throughout the year, it presents work by students, faculty, and alumni, as well as other leading artists and designers.

Carol Green / Washington University

Kranzberg Library

The University’s library system features 12 distinct sites, including the Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library, which holds more than 105,000 volumes in various media, and subscribes to the foremost electronic article indexes, e-book reference works, and digital image databases. The D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library is the most comprehensive archival collection of periodical illustration held by any academic institution.

Joe Angeles / Washington University

What do the University's resources mean for you?

The Sam Fox School is an integral part of Washington University’s diverse academic community, which is home to some of the world’s leading experts in the humanities and the sciences. You’ll have access to the University’s system of 12 libraries, a professional media production center, two observatories, an environmental field station, and much more. Immersed in this rich research environment, our students are ideally equipped to develop ideas and artworks of consequence and significance.

James Byard / Washington University