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  Documenting Dress Code Inequality

  Nov 6, 2015 2:00 pm790 views

  Riley Corboy is an undergraduate student in the first year seminar Documenting Inequality, taught by Terri Weissman. He and his classmates are creating documentary films that explore student experiences of social and economic inequality. In the KAM Blog, Riley focuses on sexism and high school dress codes. | Documenting Inequality opens at 5pm December 3 at Krannert Art Museum.

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  Doctoral Student Research: Nancy Karrels Continues Provenance Research, Plans Exhibition at KAM

  Mar 7, 2017 4:00 pm344 views

  Doctoral student Nancy Karrels was recently selected to participate in a German-American provenance research exchange program sponsored by German government agencies. The program is international in scope and will continue her important WWII-era provenance research at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, Karrels will curate the exhibition Provenance: A Forensic History of Art in the Kinkead Gallery at KAM from May 2017 through June 2018.

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  Dance at Illinois | Bodies and Attachment

  Nov 2, 2015 2:15 pm194 views

  Dance at Illinois is investigating the concept of attachment and engaging with the Attachment exhibition at Krannert Art Museum through a research seminar led by Professor and MFA Program co-director Cynthia Oliver. One member of this seminar group, graduate student in dance Charli Brissey, reflects on the "appendages/love objects" theme and how it her continuing work as a dancer speaks to this form of attachment.

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  Conservation | Yves Klein

  Jul 10, 2014 9:15 am248 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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  Conservation | "The Blue Gable" by Gabriele Münter

  Aug 3, 2015 10:45 am298 views

  In 2015, KAM contracted with Rimer Fine Art Conservation, a firm based in Chicago, for conservation work on Gabriele Münter’s oil painting The Blue Gable (1911). Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell describes the project.

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  Conservation | "Kozangrodek III" (1973) by Frank Stella

  Sep 9, 2015 9:30 am291 views

  This summer, Krannert Art Museum partnered with conservators Luca Bonetti and Beth Nunan to conserve the museum's large sculptural collage by American artist Frank Stella. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell, outlines the work completed and briefly discusses Stella's career.

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  Conservation Gives Seventeenth-Century Paintings New Look

  Sep 9, 2016 3:45 pm229 views

  Recent conservation work at Krannert Art Museum was guided by curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren and performed by conservators Barry Bauman, Cynthia Kuniej Berry, and frame conservator Eli Wilner & Co., New York. The paintings conserved and placed on view in the Bow and Trees Galleries include seventeenth-century works by Joos van Creesbeeck, Pieter de Hooch, and a large old master painting by David Teniers II. Work by American painter Ralph Albert Blakelock was also conserved..

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  Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation Announces Grant to Extend KAM-WAM Experience to Area High Schools

  Aug 17, 2015 2:45 pm122 views

  Local teachers from Urbana, Centennial, and Central high schools were awarded a $2700 grant from the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation "It's My I/D.E.A. Collaborative Grant". They will use the funds to create a shared arts education experience for their students at Krannert Art Museum that will reach 100 local high schoolers.

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  "Breaking Books": The Beauty and Dismantling of Medieval Manuscripts

  Nov 20, 2015 12:15 pm301 views

  Anne Gaëlle Churin, a student at the École du Louvre in Paris, spent the fall semester 2015 studying at the University of Illinois and held an Art History internship at Krannert Art Museum under the supervision of KAM's Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren. In this blog post, she outlines the practice of breaking ancient and medieval manuscripts into pieces for distribution to and study at academic institutions. While on campus, Churin studied manuscripts housed at the museum and at the University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 

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  Anne Sautman Wins IAEA Art Educator of the Year

  Nov 4, 2016 2:15 pm76 views

  The Illinois Art Education Association has named Anne Sautman of Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the 2016 IAEA Museum Art Educator of the Year. This award recognizes exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of one outstanding IAEA member annually. The award was presented at the Illinois Art Education Association Conference in Normal, IL on Friday, November 4th, 2016.

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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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  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.