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  International video exhibition and Japanese vampire film coming to Krannert Art Museum

  Oct 8, 2014 11:45 am61 views

  Starting Oct. 17, Krannert Art Museum will celebrate video art’s early beginnings and its first major practitioner, Nam June Paik (1932–2006), with the opening of “Global Groove 1973/2012.” Later in the month, the museum will host a free screening of Japanese silent film "Sanguivorous" as part of the Sudden Sound Concert Series.

   

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  "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.

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  Japanese Printmaking Explored at Krannert Art Museum | "The Creative Print Movement in Japan" to Feature Illinois Faculty

  Sep 25, 2014 4:00 pm108 views

  Visitors to Krannert Art Museum (KAM, http://kam.illinois.edu) are invited to explore Japanese printmaking by participating in a Gallery Conversation entitled “The Creative Print Movement in Japan,” Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the museum’s Asian Gallery. 

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  Amy L. Powell Joins Krannert Art Museum as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

  Sep 23, 2014 11:45 am1056 views

  Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to welcome Amy L. Powell as the museum’s curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

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  KAM Curator Allyson Purpura and Asst. Professor Prita Meier Awarded NEH Planning Grant

  Sep 8, 2014 11:30 am177 views

  Krannert Art Museum curator of African Art Allyson Purpura and Prita Meier, Assistant Professor of Art History, have received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) planning grant for the museum exhibition World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean.

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  2014 Fall Newsletter Available Online

  Sep 2, 2014 3:30 pm21 views

  Krannert Art Museum's Fall 2014 newsletter is now available in print and online.

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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).

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  Conservation | Yves Klein

  Jul 10, 2014 9:15 am262 views

  Conservator Jackie Wilson of Wilson Conservation, Brooklyn, NY, was recently onsite at KAM to conserve an Yves Klein sculpture in the permanent collection...

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  Krannert Art Museum Wins AAMC Award for Excellence

  May 7, 2014 2:45 pm129 views

  Krannert Art Museum (KAM, http://kam.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was the recipient of a 2013 Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC, http://www.artcurators.org) Award for Excellence for its permanent collection installation, Encounters: The Arts of Africa, curated by Allyson Purpura. The installation was awarded co-First Prize in the annual AAMC Awards of Excellence for exhibitions organized by museums with operating budgets of under $4 million. The AAMC Awards of Excellence were formally announced on May 5, 2014 at the AAMC annual conference at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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  Kathleen Harleman Wins 2013 Ace Award for Arts Advocacy

  Oct 17, 2013 5:00 pm53 views

  The Champaign County Arts Council 40 North/88 West awarded Krannert Art Museum Director Kathleen Harleman an ACE award for her arts advocacy work in Champaign-Urbana and the state of Illinois.

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  KAM Opens Renovated, "Reimagined" African Gallery

  Oct 9, 2012 9:00 am204 views

  Krannert Art Museum opens its newly designed gallery devoted to the arts of Africa. Encounters: The Ats of Africa is a thematically organized installation inspired by the idea that art objects can "tell multiple stories."

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  Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from Illinois Collections (January 27–April 29, 2012)

  Jan 5, 2012 9:00 am44 views

  Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion is honored to present Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from Illinois Collections...

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  KAM Publications Win Prestigious Design Awards

  Sep 30, 2011 9:00 am14 views

  The catalogue for KAM's 2010 exhibition, The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux, was one of five publications to win Awards of Distinction from the Society of Typographic Arts (STA), as well as the Judge's Choice.