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Associate Professor of Music and Vocal Coordinator Stephanie Tennill recently appeared in "Into the Woods" at Union Avenue Opera. Professor Tennill played Jack's Mother in the company of esteemed musicians and actors.
Visual and Performing Arts Coordinator Sara Rae Womack made her directorial debut in May 2024 with the classic musical "Anything Goes" at Kirkwood Theatre Guild. Womack invited sophomore Theatre student Colleen Dundon to serve as Assistant Director.
Dance Minor Samanvita Kasthuri (A&S '24) explores a conceptual dance project which examines how viewers experience Indian classical dance.
An innovative book developed by Stephanie Hirschman, an ESL educator in Lewes, England, and Saint Louis University Studio Art faculty, Amy Alton Bautz, to activate learning through haptic and meditative coloring exercises. It is a remarkable and unique use of art to support language acquisition.