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  • Kelly Stachura and Tim Fox, senior exhibition technicians from NFA Space, install work by Victor Ekpuk on the east wall of Encounters: The Arts of Africa.

    New Encounters with African Art

    Oct 27, 2016 3:00 pm129 views

    This year, with its adjacent galleries under renovation, Encounters: The Arts of Africa was de-installed in order to protect the objects from the dangers of construction. Upon re-opening, visitors will notice several exciting changes in the Encounters gallery. In the Power of Script section, an Ethiopian healing scroll, borrowed from the Spurlock Museum, was taken off view to “rest” the delicate parchment’s light sensitive pigments. And new to join the exhibition’s Creativity of Power thematic grouping is a brass divination bowl commissioned by members of the Oshugbo society, the transcendent arbiters of justice and morality in Yoruba culture.

  • Design and Installation Specialist Walter Wilson, Collections Manager Kim Sissions, and Graduate Assistant C.J. McCarrick discuss the placement of "Ophelia" by Gerald Brockhurst in the Trees Gallery at Krannert Art Museum.

    'Ophelia' by Gerald Brockhurst now on view in the Trees Gallery

    Feb 16, 2016 4:30 pm246 views

    Maureen Warren, Curator of European and American Art, describes a new addition to Trees Gallery, an etching by Gerald Brockhurst titled "Ophelia" (1942)

  • Student Member Profile | Melody Chua

    Sep 9, 2015 2:15 pm140 views

    Meet Melody Chua, a senior majoring in music who solved the KAM Newsletter Challenge and won a year-long student membership.

  • Maureen Warren, incoming Curator of European and American Art at Krannert Art Museum (Photo by Yvonne Carns)

    KAM Welcomes Maureen Warren as Curator of European and American Art

    Aug 5, 2015 8:00 am490 views

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill., August 1, 2015 —Krannert Art Museum (KAM, http://kam.illinois.edu), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce that Maureen Warren will become the museum’s curator of European and American Art.

  • 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.