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.

Exhibitions

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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.
  1. Oct 3, 2020 to Aug 26, 2021
Art Since 1948
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multicolored graphic with white text on a blue background that says "Pandemics as a Portal to Change: A Community Exhibition". Below the graphic there is a white bar with logos for the organizing partners.
  1. May 21, 2021 to Aug 28, 2021
Pandemics as a Portal to Change: A Community Exhibition
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Paul Kelpe, Man and Machines (Abstraction #5), 1934. Oil, canvas. Commissioned through the New Deal art projects 1943-4-209
  1. Jun 5, 2021 to Dec 23, 2021
Modernist Strategies: Highlights from the WPA
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Grid-based abstract oil painting with bright colors amid finely-drawn black squares by abstract artist Louise Fishman
  1. Aug 26, 2021 to Feb 26, 2022
A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing
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photograph of a man seated in a leather straightjacket and leather hood. text on the photo, titled 'Submission' describes the type of bondage practice being pictured. The man is wearing no pants, only underwear.
  1. Aug 26, 2021 to Dec 22, 2021
Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics
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Blue wooden bench in a gallery with text painted on it. The back of the bench says "This exhibition has asked me to stand for too long." The seat says "Sit if you agree."
  1. Sep 23, 2021 to Dec 11, 2021
Crip*

Events

Two young Black women wearing masks and sitting at a table beneath an Art Studio sign in the Homemade, with Love exhibition at KAM. They are SOLHOT homegirls Blair Smith and Kamari Smalls, both artists and educators.
Jun 17, 3-4 pm
Open Studio Art Days: Homemade, with Love
painting with red and gold flowers over a background that is gradations of blue. Stenciled in large letters is "TAKE UP SPACE", paint drips in places from the flowers like tears running down the painting
Talk Jun 17, 6:30-7:30 pm
You Are Not Alone: Creative Expression and Mental Health During the Pandemic
Two young Black women wearing masks and sitting at a table beneath an Art Studio sign in the Homemade, with Love exhibition at KAM. They are SOLHOT homegirls Blair Smith and Kamari Smalls, both artists and educators.
Jun 24, 3-4 pm
Open Studio Art Days: Homemade, with Love
Purple graphic with text that says "Homemade, with Love: More Living Room Closing Celebration, Sat. July 3,1-3pm; Krannert Art Museum, Open-mic and art making, outdoors weather permitting with covid-19 precautions, mask required unless vaccinated".
Reception Jul 3, 1-3 pm
Closing Celebration: Homemade, with Love
An African American ceramic artist leans forward over his spinning wheel turning a pot. The clay is covered in slip, so appears wet. He concentrates on his work, one hand inside the pot, the other outside, shaping as the clay spins on the wheel.
Talk Sep 16, 5:30 pm
Jim McDowell Lecture | African American Face Jugs: Thoughts Become Art Inspired by the Ancestors

Stories

Image of a museum display case filled with intricately painted Japanese ceramics along with a few pieces of Chinese export porcelain. Vases and plates are pictured.
New Installation of Asian Ceramics in the Moore Gallery of Decorative Arts
Several children look at several paintings in the Trees gallery at Krannert Art Museum. They are standing individually or in pairs looking at oil paintings by European artists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
How to Talk About Art
Abstract artist Louise Fishman examines her 1976 oil and wax work on paper, My Pigeon (a geometric drawing in white and grey wax on paper), with her spouse Ingrid Nyeboe
Research Conversation with Amy L. Powell
Television with a black and white image of a Black mother smiling. Her baby is seated on her hip, looking up at her. In the background is patterned cloth and a vintage stereo speaker. The snapshot appears to be from the mid to late 20th c. US.
Research Conversations: Blair Ebony Smith and Jen Everett
Image of art installed in a gallery, with emphasis on the new LED lights at the ceiling. The artwork is by Bea Nettles, and the gallery is KAM's recently renovated East Gallery
Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory Reopens for Final Month at KAM
Graphic with text that says Pandemics as a Portal to Change, call for artwork.It is decorated with fluid fields of color on a white background and a stylized imprint of a human fingerprint.
Call for Art | Pandemics as a Portal to Change: A Community Exhibition

Collection Highlights

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
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
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
"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
Camille Pissarro, Statue d'Henri IV, matin, soleil d'hiver (Statue of Henri-IV, Morning, Winter Sunlight), 1900. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 3/4 inches. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Merle J. Trees 1951-1-2
Camille Pissarro, Statue d'Henri IV, matin, soleil d'hiver (Statue of Henri-IV, Morning, Winter Sunlight), 1900