Join Us For
Fall 2026
A Season Worth Experiencing
Discover thought-provoking visual storytelling across campus this season through rotating exhibitions in the Kooyumjian and Hunt galleries. Explore captivating works by renowned conservation photographers, multimedia artists, acclaimed fellows and local creators. The season culminates in the annual Department of Art, Design and Art History (DADAH) Senior Showcase celebrating senior student portfolios.
Kooyumjian Gallery, Sverdrup Hall second floor
Missouri-based photography icon, Noppadol Paothong is a conservation photographer and associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. A staff wildlife photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation, his work appears in national publications including Audubon, Nature Conservancy and National Wildlife. For more than 20 years, Paothong has documented rare and endangered species. In this exhibition, Wild Places, Paothong contrasts spectacular intimate details with dynamic moments of our natural world via his stunning, vibrant photography. Macrophotography of butterfly wings are exhibited alongside moments of dynamic and rarely seen animal behavior.
Kooyumjian Gallery, Sverdrup Hall second floor
Local multimedia artist, Juno Musonda, is inspired by Missouri's beautiful landscapes.
In his exhibition, WILLED, Musonda presents a multi-media exhibit (photography, film, typography and riso printing) exploring three Missouri state parks through the individuals who assembled and gave the land: Hawn State Park, Don Robinson State Park and Elephant Rocks State Park. Juno explains, "It's easy to believe that the individual no longer matters. That our voices are too small, our actions too insignificant, and that lasting change belongs only to institutions or those with extraordinary influence. If these places teach us anything, it is that influence is not reserved for the powerful. It belongs to anyone willing to leave the world better than they found it."
Exhibition opening reception, 6-8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18
Jenna Bauer is a painter as well as an art educator, musician and social practice artist. Bauer earned the MFA degree at Hunter College, New York, in 2013, and BFA in Painting from Webster University. Bauer has had many solo gallery exhibitions including Four Chapter Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; Hoffman-LaChance Gallery, Bruno David Gallery, 10th Street Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Galerie Gris, New York; and numerous groups exhibitions in St. Louis; Kansas City; Brooklyn, New York; and Vienna, Austria. Bauer taught at Washington Market School in New York, New York; was the founder of Colorbridge Art teaching studio and lead instructor (2014-2023); and presently teaches at Notre Dame de Sion, Kansas City, Missouri.
Kooyumjian Gallery, Sverdrup Hall second floor
Internationally-celebrated, award-winning, Sky Hopinka is a filmmaker, photographer and writer whose work centers on Indigenous homeland, landscape and language. Hopinka, who previously taught the Indigenous language Chinuk Wawa in Portland, Oregon, has screened his media work at the Sundance, Toronto and New York film festivals. A member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Hopinka is a MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow and received the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award in Art. Known for his experimental and lyrical work exploring Native American history and life, Hopinka won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2022 for his works like Kicking the Clouds, a 15-minute video featuring audio of his grandmother being taught her ancestral language, woven together with his own poetry.
Kooyumjian Gallery, Sverdrup Hall second floor
St. Louis photographer Lisa Halley Melching uses her work to explore the natural world, capturing images layered with light and motion to interpret a world in flux. "Ultimately, this collection is a meditation on the rhythms of nature as our constant companion," explains Melching.
Senior students from the Department of Art, Design and Art History (DADAH) will present their work at the DADAH Showcase. This event allows seniors the opportunity to present a portfolio of their work to the Webster community as well as industry professionals. Portfolios will be evaluated by industry guest judges.
Experience a vibrant season of live performances at campus venues featuring student ensembles, orchestras and guest artists. The schedule includes dynamic choral presentations, orchestral programs, jazz and chamber concerts.
Community Music School, Concert Hall
The Webster University Choral Ensembles present a fall concert. Conducted by Trent A. Patterson.
Community Music School, Concert Hall
The Webster University Orchestra is directed by Paul G. Davis.
Community Music School, Concert Hall
The Webster University Wind Ensemble is directed by Paul G. Davis.
Community Music School, Concert Hall
A Jazz@Webster event featuring Department of Music jazz students. The Webster University Jazz Collective is directed by Bennett Wood.
Community Music School, Concert Hall
The chamber ensembles are directed by Nina Ferrigno.
St. Clare of Assisi, 1411 Cross St, O'Fallon, IL 62269
The Webster University Choral Ensembles are conducted by Trent A. Patterson.
Winifred Moore Auditorium, Maria Hall
A Jazz@Webster event featuring vocal jazz students. The Webster University Jazz Singers are directed by Michael Engelhardt.
Experience compelling performances by the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Dance program across campus venues, including the Emerson Studio Theatre, Browning Mainstage Theatre and The Dot. The season features captivating productions ranging from inventive musical theatre and original BFA dance choreography to classic dramas by renowned playwrights.
Emerson Studio Theatre, Loretto-Hilton Center lower level
Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts is pleased to announce their upcoming production of "In the Green." The production will take place in the Emerson Studio Theatre (130 Edgar Rd., Loretto Hilton Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO 63119).
As a young girl, medieval saint, healer, visionary, exorcist and composer Hildegard von Bingen was locked in a cloister's cell after demonstrating a preternatural sensitivity to the world around her. Sequestered with Hildegard is Jutta, a woman who has spent her life secluded in an effort to recover a whole self after deepest trauma. Under Jutta's guidance, Hildegard attempts to reassemble her own fragmented self while her mentor proselytizes a rejection of brokenness. "In the Green" is a musical unlike any you've seen, an astonishing, sonically sophisticated saga of two exceptional women broken by the world and their journey of healing that changed history.
The BFA Choreographic Concert showcases the original choreography of senior BFA Dance candidates.
Browning Mainstage Theatre, Loretto-Hilton Center
Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts is pleased to announce their upcoming production of "The Crucible" on the Browning Mainstage Theatre (130 Edgar Rd., Loretto Hilton Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO 63119).
One of the most acclaimed plays in the American theatrical canon, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is a gripping and timely parable of contemporary society, as well as a studied historical tale. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his wife and a young servant-girl who maliciously causes the wife's arrest for witchcraft. The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie — and the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned along with a host of others.The Dot, Webster Hall
Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts is pleased to announce their upcoming production of "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde." The production will take place in The Dot (470 E Lockwood Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119).
In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing sodomite." Wilde sued the Marquess for criminal libel. The defense denounced Wilde's art and literature as immoral, leading the prosecuting attorney to declare, "It would appear that what is on trial is not Lord Queensberry but Mr. Wilde's art!" In the end Queensberry was acquitted, and evidence that had been gathered against Wilde compelled the Crown to prosecute him for "gross indecency with male persons." With Wilde's arrest, his hit plays running in London's West End were forced to close, and Wilde was reduced to penury. A second trial ended in a hung jury with Wilde's impassioned defense of "the love that dare not speak its name," prompting a third trial. In the third and decisive trial, Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor. He was separated forever from his wife and children and wrote very little for the rest of his life. In addition to Wilde, Douglas and Queensberry, characters ranging from Queen Victoria to London's rent boys, to a present-day academic are assembled to explore how history is made and how it can be so timely revisited in the theatre.
Discover a diverse cinema series at the Winifred Moore Auditorium featuring independent features, documentaries and innovative shorts. Audiences can experience rare cinematic artistry through special programs and historical film series.
Three programs of animated shorts from the 2025 Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film: Best of ITFS, the family-friendly Best of Tricks for Kids, and the nature-focused Best of Trickstar Nature. Presented in collaboration with St. Louis Filmworks.
Brydie O'Connor's new documentary about the pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose body of over eighty films include influential experimental classics such as 1990's "Sanctus" and 1992's "Nitrate Kisses."
Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, is an acclaimed filmmaker, photographer, and poet, who was awarded a 2020 Guggeinheim Fellowship and 2022 MacArthur Fellowship. Appearing in person at the Webster Film Series alongside his new feature film, "Powwow People," the Film Series will also present his 2020 feature "malni - towards the ocean, towards the shore" and a program of his short films from 2014-22.
From legendary experimental filmmaker and programmer Jonas Mekas is 1997's "Birth of a Nation," which, unlike the D.W. Griffith movie of the same name, is about a nation of film artists and scholars, presented as a series of portraits. On the same program is East Coast audio professor Cliff Roth's cult short "The Reagans Speak Out On Drugs," a masterclass of what can be done in the editing room.
While some events are free to the public, others will require a ticket. Once you register, admission information will be sent to your email.
For more information on our events, please contact:
The Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts
Campus Map (Building 14)
130 Edgar Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63119-3194
Phone: 314-246-6929
Parking in campus lots I, J and K.
Webster Hall ground floor
Campus Map (Building 32)
470 East Lockwood Ave.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
Parking in campus lot B.
Visual Arts Studios
Campus Map (Building 30)
8342 Big Bend Blvd.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
Phone: 314-246-7957
Street parking available or campus lots H and D
Open Tuesday-Saturday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
School of Communications, Sverdrup Building Second Floor, West Wing
Campus Map (Building 27)
8300 Big Bend Blvd.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
Street parking available or campus lots H and D.
For immediate gallery entry, call Public Safety at 314-246-6911
Open daily, 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Maria Hall
Campus Map (Building 34)
470 East Lockwood Ave.
Webster Groves, MO 63119
Parking in campus lot B:
