Can a museum be place of rest? Krannert Art Museum education coordinators Ishita Dharap and Kamila Glowacki have proven the answer is a resounding “yes!” with their multiyear, ever-evolving, pop-up project: Rest Lab.
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) is partnering with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) as well as scholars and descendent communities across the Midwest and in Peru to completely reinstall its collection of pre-Hispanic Andean art.
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) played a pivotal role in the 2024 U.S. presidential election season as part of a coalition of 10 public university art museums.
Four faculty from the School of Art & Design showcase their work in an exhibit that explores the themes of time, space, identity, music, and memory through the lens of Black Quantum Futures.
Krannert Art Museum will have The Ink Wash Paintings of Shozo Sato on exhibit through December 16, 2023. The rarely exhibited ink wash paintings celebrate Sato’s enduring and thoughtful engagement with vistas of the American Southwest, American West, and childhood memories of Osaka and Hiroshima during World War II.
Kathryn and Michael Andrecak have fond memories of their time in Champaign-Urbana despite no longer living there. They both have a strong appreciation for the arts and would often attend productions at Krannert Center and visit the Krannert Art Museum. In 2022, Michael and Kathryn designated a significant portion of their estate to be split evenly between Krannert Center and Krannert Art Museum.
As part of their 2022 programming, Krannert Art Museum (KAM) hosted two dance residencies that culminated in immersive live performance experiences. Dance in museums, while not unheard of, introduces visitors to an art form not typically represented in these spaces — a living work made of bodies in motion that cannot be confined to a dated plaque on the wall.
The Krannert Art Museum (KAM) featured a new exhibit that amplified Latina/x girls’ voices through multimedia works. Centering their lived experiences, the exhibit created space for the girls to represent their stories, languages, and cultures in humanizing and empowering ways.
Krannert Art Museum mourned the passing of alumna Louise Fishman, an artist whose unwavering commitments to both abstraction and feminism will continue to thrive through her work.
KAM and other campus and community partners collaborated on a call for art in February for an exhibition titled Pandemics as a Portal to Change. We sought visual art, creative writing, original music, video, audio, and performance, focused on hopeful approaches that creatively imagine what the future can look like. It was open to creators on campus and throughout Champaign County.
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) recently brought on visual artist and educator Liza Sylvestre as the museum’s inaugural curator of academic programs. In this new role, Sylvestre is responsible for connecting the university’s faculty and students to the museum – developing KAM into a vital teaching resource across all disciplines at the University of Illinois.
