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University Day
University Day celebrates the incredible talent of local university students. This event is an opportunity for the St. Louis community to engage with students’ work while celebrating their achievements across diverse practices.
This event will include Student Spotlight presentations. It will also feature a free, hands-on workshop for university students and lifelong learners, led by MFA candidates from the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Participants will explore collage and the readymade as foundational artistic practices of the 20th and 21st centuries, with attention to their connections to assembly line technologies, mass media advertising, and consumer culture. Diazha Berry, Shruti Rao, and Saba Raissian will facilitate this workshop under the direction of Robert Spahr, associate professor and director of the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
See below for more information about Student Spotlight presentations and registration for the workshop.
Museum visitor Marco Cadeno Fonseca explores The Create Lab at SLAM Underground: Drip
Schedule
noon, Gallery 313
Michael Davis (Washington University ’27) will explore how Fragment with Head of a Nubian Prisoner highlights the complex and under-studied interactions between Egypt and Nubia, taking a closer look at how narrative shapes our understanding of Egyptian depictions of Nubian peoples.
12:30 pm, Pauline Gehner Mesker Gallery 205
Drawing on firsthand experience in Egypt and close analysis of Frank Dillon’s The Colossal Pair, Thebes at SLAM, Eve Rosekind (doctorate candidate, Washington University) will examine how visual elements such as format, scale, and color construct an engaging and convincing Egyptian landscape.
4–6 pm, Education Center
This free, hands-on workshop for university students will explore collage and the readymade as foundational artistic practices of the 20th and 21st centuries, with attention to their connections to assembly-line technologies, mass media advertising, and consumer culture. Students from all disciplines are invited to register. Registration is required.
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Hands-on workshop registration
Fill out the information below to register for the University Day workshop on Friday, January 30, 2026, from 4–6 pm.
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
