Exhibitions | Krannert Art Museum

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 through Mar 6, 2021

Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory

Bea Nettles explores the narrative potential of photography through constructed images often made with alternative photographic processes. The first large-scale retrospective of her fifty-year career, Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory demonstrates this celebrated artist’s experimental approaches to art-making.

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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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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 to Jul 3, 2021

Homemade, with Love: More Living Room

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Image of a long gallery wall hung with prints. The wall is white and the prints are black and white and color. There is a doorway to an adjacent gallery visible. It has similar artwork.

Oct 3, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020

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

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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

Gallery Features

Pair of thick silver anklets from Oman or Zanzibar. They are decorated with textures that resemble folded or embroidered fabric and have a button at the top that serves as a clasp to close them around the ankle of the wearer.

Oct 3, 2020 to Jul 3, 2021

Gallery Feature | Between Land and Sea: The Itinerant Arts of the Swahili Coast

Exhibition Open Closed:

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Black and white print with seven male figure in dark suits hanging over a balcony jeering and shouting. One whistles, one has his hands cupped to direct his shout, one waves his hat. Their faces have derisive expressions.

Feb 12, 2020 to Mar 31, 2020

The Hecklers by Joseph Hirsch

Exhibition Open Closed:

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Black and white photograph of a bullet cutting a playing card in half. The bullet seems frozen in time and the card halves have not yet had time to fall. This was a feat of high speed photography at the time.

Nov 20, 2019 to Feb 12, 2020

Bullet Through Jack by Harold Eugene Edgerton

Exhibition Open Closed:

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Richard Meisinger (b. 1945), Edge Effects: Fence with Rooftop and Rectangular Chimney, 1993. Photographic print. Gift of the artist 2018-3-10

Mar 13, 2019 to May 19, 2019

Edge Effects by Richard Meisinger

Exhibition Open Closed:

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8 to Create Alumni Exhibition, 2019 promo image

Jan 14, 2019 to Mar 1, 2019

8 to Create Alumni Exhibition

Exhibition Open Closed:

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Guerrilla Girls (American, active since 1985), Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz from Portfolio Compleat, 1990. Digital print on paper. Museum purchase through the Art Acquisition Fund 2014-13-1.29

Jan 2, 2019 to Mar 1, 2019

Guerrilla Girls' Pop Quiz

Exhibition Open Closed:

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