Here & Now: Art from Greater C-U
May 31 through July 18, 2003
Guest Curator: Dori Johnson
Our own vibrant arts community was the focus of this invitational exhibition featuring just some of the high quality art being created in and around Champaign-Urbana. Working with guest curator Dori Johnson, Springer Cultural Center Coordinator for the Champaign Park District, Krannert Art Museum invited approximately two-dozen artists to exhibit their works.
Exhibition programming
June 28
2–4 pm: Artists@Krannert
Artists were available in the gallery to discuss their work
June 17–28
eMotions: Our Reality as Seen and Unseen
In a collaborative technology dance piece, reflectors on a performer's body were mapped onto a computer screen as mathematical coordinates in space. Visiting assistant professor Luc Vanier, Department of Dance; graphic artist Lance Chong, Beckman Institute; and graduate student Bradford Blackburn, School of Music opened their rehearsal/laboratory to the public. Sponsored by Flex-N-Gate, John and Alice Pfeffer, and Champaign Park District.
School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
April 26 through May 18, 2003
Exhibition programming
May 3
2 pm: Exhibition Walk-through
With 2003 MFA Artists
Picturing the Familial: Impressionist Works on Paper
April 18 through August 3, 2003
This was part of KAM's Featured Works Series (XII).
Larger than Life: Mythic Women in American Cinema
April 18 through May 25, 2003
Guest Curator: Christine Catanzarite
Exhibition programming
May 7
5:30 pm: Lecture
"Coming Attractions: Hollywood, Women, and the Art of Movie Advertising," a talk by exhibition curator Christine Catanzarite
May 11
1 pm: Second Sunday Gallery Tour
Guided tour of the exhibition led by exhibition curator Christine Catanzarite
Petals and Paintings
April 11 through 13, 2003
Exhibition programming
April 13
1 pm: Second Sunday Gallery Tour
Guided tour of the exhibition led by exhibition curator Rick Orr
American Folk Art from the Herbert Fried Collection
March 28 through September 21, 2003
Creativity in Print:
Artistic Interactions through the Work of Edward Weston
January 31 through April 13, 2003
This was part of KAM's Featured Works Series (XI).
Exhibition programming
March 5
5:30 pm: Gallery Conversation
"Behind the Scenes," an informal discussion with the curators on planning an exhibition
April 9
12 pm: Gallery Conversation
"Poets, Musicians, and Artists: Weston's Portraiture in the 1930s," with the curators
The Beginning of Seeing:
Tribal Art and the Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb
January 24 through March 30, 2003
Exhibition programming
February 9
1 pm: Second Sunday Gallery Tour
Guided tour of the exhibition led by museum director Josef Helfenstein
February 12
12–2 pm: Colloquium
"On Adolph Gottlieb's Pictographs and the Collection that Inspired His Works," coordinated by Jordana Mendelson, professor of Art History, and Dana Rush, professor of Art History
April 3
7 pm: An Evening at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
"Stefan Wolpe and Abstract Expressionism," a discussion with museum director Josef Helfenstein and Guy Garnett, School of Music
April 3
8 pm: Performance
"Stefan Wolpe: Student, Teacher...Composer," a concert featuring the Williams/Bugallo Duo. Sponsored by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Composition-Theory Division, School of Music, and the Stefan Wolpe Society
The Idea of Landscape in the Western Tradition:
Works from the Permanent Collection
January 17 through April 13, 2003
Guest Curator: Rachel DeLue
Exhibition programming
March 9
1 pm: Second Sunday Gallery Tour
Guided tour of the exhibition led by exhibition curator Rachel DeLue
Art and Conflict: The Image of War in 20th Century Art
November 16, 2002 through May 18, 2003
Exhibition programming
April 30
5:30 pm: Lecture
"Something Went Wrong: Burmese Rebel Camps and the Photographs of Chan Chao," a talk by Chan Chao. Sponsored by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts
New Acquisitions 2000–2002
October 25, 2002 through March 23, 2003