Continuing Education Opportunities

Lifelong Learning Institute

"Eero Saarinen and the Gateway Arch"
Date: Saturday, February 21st
Times: 10:00am-12:00pm or 1:00-3:00pm
Location: Kemper Art Museum

**This special program is only open to students registered with Washington University's Lifelong Learning Institute. For more information, visit http://lli.ucollege.wustl.edu/**

Participants will explore the Kemper Art Museum's spring exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future ---the first major museum exhibition to explore this significant figure of 20th-century public art and architecture. Among Saarinen's large body of work, we will focus much of our attention on Saarinen's Gateway Arch (Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in order to engage with the creative process of architectural design and its impact on our lives.

Participants in this program are asked to spend some time prior in advance reflecting on their experiences with the Gateway Arch, and to bring with them a short piece of writing about their perspective of the Arch or personal photographs (old or new) that connect in any way to the private or public understanding of this monument. Through discussions in the galleries, participants will have the opportunity to connect their knowledge of Saarinen's design to their own experiences with the Gateway Arch--and think about this familiar monument in new and different ways.