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  • Studio Blue/KAM Awarded for Design Excellence

    Jul 31, 2014 11:45 am20 views

    The University and College Designers Association has honored Krannert Art Museum publications, designed by Studio Blue, Chicago, with three prestigious awards, including a gold award for the Blind Field exhibition catalogue (2013).

  • Sudden Sound Season 10 | Gerald Cleaver's Black Host to Perform April 23

    Apr 21, 2015 12:30 pm72 views

    Jason Finkelman, organizer of the Sudden Sound Concert Series at Krannert Art Museum, reflects on the tenth anniversary of the series and the upcoming April 23 appearance of Gerald Cleaver's Black Host.

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    Tango at KAM Celebrates Love

    Feb 9, 2016 4:00 pm64 views

    Melih Sener describes Tango at KAM through a piece entitled Tango Is and invites all to a very special Valentine weekend version of Tango. 

  • Thanks to the Friends of Krannert Art Museum!

    Feb 13, 2015 4:15 pm108 views

    I love being a part of the Krannert Art Museum team. It is amazing to see all that goes on “behind the scenes” to create the thought provoking temporary exhibitions, the installations of works throughout the museum from the permanent collection, and the intense research, planning, coordination, and programming that goes into making KAM what it is. Our teamwork extends to all who support this great work at KAM, especially the Friends of Krannert Art Museum. 

     

  • Volunteer | KAM to Offer New Class for Docents

    May 13, 2015 3:15 pm73 views

    Krannert Art Museum (KAM) volunteer docents lead tours of the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions to pre K­–12 student and adult groups. They receive training on art history and teaching techniques. A new training class will begin in Fall 2015 to begin giving tours in January 2016. Applications are being accepted until June 15, 2015.

  • "What Does Black Masculinity Look Like?" Blackness, Gender & Contemporary African Dance

    Sep 30, 2014 3:30 pm166 views

    Krannert Art Museum (KAM, http://kam.illinois.edu) will host its second Global Africa Community Forum on Thurs., Oct. 9 at 5:30 p.m. The event, titled What Does Black Masculinity Look Like? Blackness, Gender and Contemporary African Dance, will be a dynamic and participatory public forum for engaging issues relating to the arts, cultures and communities of Africa and the African diaspora. This year’s forum explores experiences of blackness, gender and coming of age.

  • William Wegman (MFA '67) Returns to Campus and Krannert Art Museum

    Mar 10, 2015 10:30 am88 views

    Krannert Art Museum and the School of Art and Design hosted a visit by University of Illinois alumnus William Wegman this week. During his time on campus, Wegman spoke with MFA students, including studio visits and critiques, and had creative time with local elementary school students in the Krannert Art Museum–Week at the Museum (KAM–WAM) program. Wegman's visit, sponsored in part by the Art + Design Ed Zagorski Visitors Fund, culminated with an artist talk attended by more than 400 visitors, including U of I Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Dean Edward Feser from the College of Fine and Applied Arts. 

  • Edwin Boyd Johnson. Mural Painting (detail), 1934. Oil on canvas. Allocated by the U.S. Government, commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1934-2-22. © Edwin Boyd Johnson

    Works Progress Administration: Edwin Boyd Johnson

    Feb 16, 2017 1:15 pm133 views

    Edwin Boyd Johnson, born in Watertown, Tennessee in 1904, grew up in Nashville. He first studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the National Academy of Design in New York. He worked with watercolors and oils, but is most known for the mural paintings he created during the New Deal. 

    Recently conserved by Chicago-based firm Restoration Division, the artist's Mural Painting had several major issues fixed before being installed in the exhibition Enough to Live On: Art from the WPA.