News | Krannert Art Museum

  • Kathleen Harleman Wins 2013 Ace Award for Arts Advocacy

    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.

  • MetaModern Draws Attention

    Select Press Coverage of the KAM exhibition MetaModern 

  • Kara Walker. Freedom, A Fable (1997). Courtesy of the University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Photo by Julia Nucci Kelly

    Student Review | Memory and "Attachment"

    Art History Senior at the University of Illinois Makayla May reviews the Attachment exhibition at Krannert Art Museum, using the concepts of memory and shared history as a way to connect artists, viewers, and objects on display. 

  • 2014 Fall Newsletter Available Online

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

  • New Terrains: The Landscape Reviewed

    On Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th, the Society for Art History and Archaeology (SAHA) hosted New Terrains: The Landscape Reviewed, an IPRH-funded interdisciplinary symposium and exhibition aimed at re-considering the landscape in visual practice, co-sponsored by the Krannert Art Museum, the departments of Art History and Art Education, and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.

  • Students from the School of Music perform with Lyric Theatre's "Singing in the Spring", April 30, 2015.

    Lyric Theatre "Singing in the Spring" at Krannert Art Museum

    Lyric Studio provides an introduction to stagecraft and ensemble and scene work through focused study of specific periods in the history of sung theater. This semester, Professors Sarah Wigley Johnson and Michael Tilley chose baroque opera and Tin Pan Alley as the areas of specialization.

  • Studio Blue/KAM Awarded for Design Excellence

    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).

  • Road Work graphic | Krannert Art Museum project update

    News | Peabody Drive Construction (May 2015)

    Krannert Art Museum visitor information, including details of construction along East Peabody Drive from May 21 through June 6, 2015.

  • Nov 2014 Construction, Parking, and Access

    Beginning in November 2014, there will be road construction along Peabody Drive at Fourth Street near the museum. The project is expected to extend into January 2015.

  • KAM Publications Win Prestigious Design Awards

    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.