Krannert Art Museum

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

We are open 10 am to 4 pm. Due to construction, please enter via Sixth Street.

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.

Exhibitions

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Round, buff-colored ceramic jar with fine hatching patterns in black over much of its surface. The circular opening has red pigment that swoops down into the strongly geometric design
  1. Jan 27, 2022 to Sep 3, 2022
To Know the Fire: Pueblo Women Potters and the Shaping of History
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Claes Jansz Visscher (publisher and perhaps printmaker, Dutch 1587–1652), The Far-famed House of Nassau or Orange, ca. 1628–1629. Engraving. Museum purchase through the John N. Chester Fund 2019-7-9
  1. Aug 25, 2022 to Dec 17, 2022
Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic
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A collection of family photos that include images of a Black mother, father, and children and their family car. Happy memories. The colors are faded like these are old images from the 1980s or 90s.
  1. Sep 24, 2022 to Dec 10, 2022
Black on Black on Black on Black
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Cylindrical green glass sculpture with textured sides similar to the weaving pattern of a Tlingit basket. The top third of the object has a black pattern of jagged parallel lines and flying birds.
  1. Nov 15, 2022 to May 13, 2023
Well-Designed Beauty: Trade, Technology, and Decorative Arts
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Krannert Art Museum facade at night
  1. Feb 2, 2023 to Dec 22, 2023
Pattern and Process
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An older Japanese man with white hair and glasses stands near calligraphy he has created. He is in a room with an ink wash painting of a windswept landscape behind him. He is the artist, Shozo Sato.
  1. Mar 2, 2023 to Dec 22, 2023
The Ink Wash Paintings of Shozo Sato

Events

A snowy landscape that includes the shore of a partially frozen lake. A treeline that combines dense evergreens with the bare branches of winter sits beneath a chilly blue-lavender sky. There are no people or animals about.
Reception Aug 25, 5:30-7:30 pm
Reflections on Life Through Art: A Celebration of Artist Sandra Batzli
Photo of two people holding wine glasses and smiling at one another.
Reception Aug 31, 5-7 pm
Fall 2022 Members' Preview & Reception
book cover that shows an image with two heads, one that can be viewed upright and a different one when it's held upside down. The title is shown with text in two directions to encourage this double-viewing.
Talk Sep 1, 10 am
Virtual Book Launch: Paper Knives, Paper Crowns
brightly colored print of a queen under a tree surrounded by attendants. a trumpeting angel floats overhead. text says, "Krannert Art Museum Fall 2022 Opening Night"
Reception Sep 1, 5-8 pm
Fall 2022 Public Opening Night Reception
a man, artist Ben Blount, rolling ink onto a letterpress printing machine in a workshop filled with equipment. He is dressed in a printer's apron.
Sep 9,
Fake News | Broadside Printmaking Workshop
Black and white image of a man and woman doing the bump, a dance from the late 1970s US popularized on Soul Train. Both dancers have natural afro hairstyles
Reception Sep 24, 12 noon to 6 pm
Opening Celebration for Black on Black on Black on Black

Stories

Claes Jansz Visscher (publisher and perhaps printmaker, Dutch 1587–1652), The Far-famed House of Nassau or Orange, ca. 1628–1629. Engraving. Museum purchase through the John N. Chester Fund 2019-7-9
Call for Papers | Early Modern Global Political Art
cartoon man with glasses and dark hair gestures toward a Dutch print in the background. Text says in script: Is this a meme?
Call for Art | Lying Pictures Zine
three friends stand arm in arm in a museum gallery with white walls. They are dressed up and share smiles, laughter, and a glass of wine. At the center is a woman in a flower-embroidered sweater. She is artist Sandra Batzli.
An Artist's Life: Sandra L. Batzli
A young Black woman with a serious expression, long, wavy hair, and glasses that have aqua frames
Summer at KAM by Brishaun Cunningham
A hand holds a small Pueblo pot with an intricate design in black, white, and terracotta. the hand is drawn but the pot itself is a photo The title of the exhibition
KAM Downloads: To Know the Fire Self-Guide
A Black woman in a white top with a natural hairstyle and big smile. She is in her twenties.
U of I Alum Bethany Johnson Earns Position as DEAI Coordinator at Field Museum

Collection Highlights

Gabriele Münter, The Blue Gable, 1911. Oil, canvas. Gift of Albert L. Arenberg 1956-13-1
Gabriele Münter, The Blue Gable, 1911
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
Cylindrical oyster jar with a narrow neck, made of grey glazed ceramic. It stands 6-8 in tall and has writing stamped on it, highlighted with cobalt blue glaze. "T. Downings Pickeld Oysters, No. 5 Broad St. New York"
Unknown artist, Oyster Jar (from the oyster house of Thomas Downing), ca. 1840
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
Charles Burchfield. The Four Seasons, 1949–1960. Watercolor. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund 1961-2-1
Charles Burchfield, The Four Seasons, 1949–1960
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
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
"Singer" dance mask, early 20th century Ivory Coast (We) Wood, bells, fiber, chalk 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches Gift of Richard J. Faletti Family Collection 2000-5-1
Ivory Coast (We), "Singer" dance mask, 20th Century