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.
