Support Stories

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
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.
Inside Out | Celebrate Glass Art during the International Year of Glass
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Fall 2021 | Letter from the Director
Black and white photograph of George M. Irwin. He wears a collared shirt and is seated at a desk with his glasses in his hand. There is framed art on the wall behind him.
In Memoriam: George M. Irwin (1921-2020)
Krannert Art Museum facade at night
2020 Grants, Awards & Sponsorships
2-panel painting installed on a gallery wall. Each panel is roughly square and they are installed next to one another, touching. The right panel is geometric with a rough texture that looks like a piece is missing, the left is a flowing waterfall.
Inside Out | Making Art in the Midst of Loss
painting of an old fashioned truck, bright red with a gold canvas top and viewed from behind, with a large rock in its bed. It is driverless but points toward a fancifully painted landscape with blue and rose plaid sky and a polka dotted landscape.
2020 Gifts of Art
snapshot of a smiling couple in a big city. He wears a hat and they look like they're traveling. They are Gary and Fraeda Porton of Chicago, Illinois.
Making a Bigger Impact: Gary and Fraeda Porton
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Fall 2020 | Letter from the Director
studio portrait of a man and woman smiling with a blue portrait background behind them. The couple is David and Nancy Morse.
In Memoriam: David Morse
Gallery view of Homemade, with Love: More Living Room, including a colorful quilt in the foreground, music listening station at left, reading area in the center, and furnishings with colored lights at right.
Inside Out | A Season for Work and Welcoming
Partners in Life and Giving: Ruta and Bob Rauber
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Spring 2020 | Letter from the Director
Krannert Art Museum facade at night
2019 Grants, Awards & Sponsorships
Joan and Peter Hood, 2019. Photo by Julia Nucci Kelly.
Giving Back Through the Arts: Peter and Joan Hood
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Fall 2019 | Letter from the Director
Krannert Art Museum donor and art collector Len Lewicki at home in Seattle, 2018.
Law School Alumni Support KAM: Len Lewicki and Iver M. Nelson, Jr.
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Spring 2019 | Letter from the Director
Rosann Gelvin Noel standing next to John Flaxman (designer for Josiah Wedgwood), <em>Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides</em>, ca 1785.
In Memoriam: Rosann Gelvin Noel
head and shoulders portrait of a white man with short cropped dark hair standing in a gallery with paintings and white walls
Fall 2018 | Letter from the Director