Kinkead Pavilion entrance photographed at sunset. Hive, two lighted sculptures, fill the space symmetrically. Each is pink with a conical structure built of stacked inflated orbs with a long braid that reaches ceiling to floor.

Hive

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Krannert Art Museum, Kinkead Pavilion entrance. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer (2015)

Welcome to Krannert Art Museum

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Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017.

European and American Art in the Trees Gallery, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, 2019.

European and American Art: Trees Gallery

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European and American Art in the Trees Gallery, installation view at Krannert Art Museum, 2019.

gallery view of entry wall of Art Since 1948 with text and a row of paintings from the museum's modern and contemporary collection. Wall angles toward the viewer to guide their eye down the line of paintings to the next gallery beyond.

Art Since 1948

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Krannert Art Museum

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

We are open 10 am to 4 pm.

Krannert Art Museum (KAM) serves the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the communities of East Central Illinois. All are welcome to enjoy KAM's rich collection of fine art from across the globe, vibrant exhibitions, and engaging programs.

Image of a gallery with home furnishings, colored lights, and a painted "Art Studio" sign. Two Black women sit a table beneath the sign to welcome young people to the gallery for studio art days.

Aug 27, 2020 through Jul 3, 2021

Homemade, with Love: More Living Room

What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior worldmaking imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods?

Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation that brings together interior design, audio and visual art made with Black girls. The exhibition seeks to merge local, national and global critical arts engagement with Black girls to curate a homemade space that centers Black girls’ creativity, design, and lived experience.

Exhibitions

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Kinkead Pavilion entrance photographed at sunset. Hive, two lighted sculptures, fill the space symmetrically. Each is pink with a conical structure built of stacked inflated orbs with a long braid that reaches ceiling to floor.

Jan 30, 2020 to May 16, 2021

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gallery view of entry wall of Art Since 1948 with the exhibition title text and art from the museum's modern and contemporary collection.

Oct 3, 2020 to Aug 26, 2021

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Florence Kent, Jewish Refugees, 1935–1943. Lithograph. Allocated by the US Government, Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-210.

Oct 3, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020

Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States

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Hand colored photograph of a young girl looking at the camera. The background is a deep blue with shades of lighter color. The girl's face is serious.

Nov 5, 2020 to Mar 6, 2021

Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory

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Sculptures by Stephen Cartwright containing layers of clear and colored resin are on pedestals in the foreground. Freeform sculpture of foil and fabric by Melissa Pokorny are in the background in this gallery image of the Faculty Exhibition at KAM.

Feb 18, 2021 to Apr 24, 2021

2021 School of Art + Design Faculty Exhibition

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Krannert Art Museum facade at night

Apr 3, 2021 to Apr 24, 2021

2021 School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

Events

Image of a gallery with home furnishings, colored lights, and a painted "Art Studio" sign. Two Black women sit a table beneath the sign to welcome young people to the gallery for studio art days.

Oct 22, 2:30-4 pm

Homemade, with Love: Studio Art Days

Color photo of a smiling white woman in a grey dress and blue cardigan. She stands in a gallery with WPA prints installed at Krannert Art Museum.

Members Oct 23, 12 noon

Fall 2020 Krannert Art Museum Council Lecture and Luncheon

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum

Oct 23, 12 noon

Yoga at KAM: Virtual Edition

Image of a gallery with home furnishings, colored lights, and a painted "Art Studio" sign. Two Black women sit a table beneath the sign to welcome young people to the gallery for studio art days.

Oct 23, 2:30-4 pm

Homemade, with Love: Studio Art Days

Print of a white man speaking into a microphone in front of a window that says "Campaign Headquarters." The audience is men of varying ages, races, and (by their clothing) social class. Some are listening. Some do not seem to be.

Oct 29, 4:30-6:30 pm

Pressing Issues Political Postcard Workshop

Yoga at Krannert Art Museum

Oct 30, 12 noon

Yoga at KAM: Virtual Edition

Stories

Color photo of a smiling white woman in a grey dress and blue cardigan. She stands in a gallery with WPA prints installed at Krannert Art Museum.

"Pressing Issues" at KAM Shows WPA Printmakers' Thoughts on Social Justice

Color print of the american flag with a brown face in the center and white faces and skulls in the upper left.

Message from the Director: May 31, 2020

Image of Bolivian skyline with new skyscraper that contains Native imagery in its architecture. The view is looking up from the courtyard of a much more traditional building.

Lives in Fragments: Reassessing the KAM Andean Collection

Image of a dark-haired woman leaning close to examine a textile that lays flat on a table. The woman is Andean researcher Rosa Varillas Palacios

Weaving Object Histories: Andean Textile Research at KAM

View of the front of Krannert Art Museum focusing on the gold 1961 brise soleil across the front facade of the building.

Campus-connected Resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Portrait of a young Black woman smiling in an art gallery, Before her is a brightly colored quilt and in the background art is installed on the walls with comfy furnishings for sitting, like a home setting.

Black girls create a space of their own in 'Homemade, with Love' exhibition at KAM

Collection Highlights

Small brown tea bowl that could fit in a person's hand. Glaze is grey in the middle and deeper brown at edges, with silver on the rim. Surface is smooth. This bowl is around 700 years old.

Chinese artisan, Jianyao (Hare's Fur Glaze) Tea Bowl, 12th - 13th century

Kozangrodek III by Frank Stella is a large relief collage that is taller than an average man and about as wide. It contains panels of vibrantly colored, smooth material that stand out at angles from each other, forming an abstract citiscape.

Frank Stella, Kozangrodek III, 1973

Unknown artist (Active in Edgefield, South Carolina). Face Jug, ca. 1850–1865. Alkaline-glazed stoneware. Museum purchase through the Theresa E. and Harlan E. Moore Charitable Trust Fund 2018-15-1

Unknown artist (active in Edgefield, South Carolina), Face Jug, ca. 1850–1865

Barbara Kruger. Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982. Photo offset lithograph, serigraph. 73 x 49 inches. Art Acquisition Fund 1986-36-1.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982

Charles Burchfield. The Four Seasons, 1949–1960. Watercolor. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund 1961-2-1

Charles Burchfield, The Four Seasons, 1949–1960

Ban Chiang Vessel, 4000 - 3000 BCE. Ceramic. Class of 1908 Fund 1979-9-1

Ban Chiang Vessel, 4th – 3rd millennium BCE

Attic black-figure kylix, ca. 530 BCE. Earthenware, slip. Gift of Theresa E. and Harlan E. Moore, 1970-8-1

Follower of Exekias (Greece, active ca. 550–525 BCE), Attic black-figure kylix, ca. 530 BCE

Winslow Homer, Cerney-La-Ville-French Farm, 1867. Oil on panel. Gift of Merle J. and Emily N. Trees 1940-1-3

Winslow Homer, Cerney-la-Ville–French Farm, 1867

Ceremonial drum, ca. 100 BCE, Peru, Nasca. Terracotta, polychrome slip. Gift of Fred Olsen and the Art Acquisition Fund 1967-29-110

Nasca, Peru, Ceremonial Drum, ca. 100 BCE

Attributed to Areogun of Osi Ilorin, Bowl for Divination Implements (Opon Igede Ifa), early 20th century. Wood. Gift of Richard J. Faletti Family Collection 2001-16-24/a

Attributed to Areogun of Osi Ilorin, Bowl for Divination Implements (Opon Igede Ifa), 20th Century