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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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.
  1. Jan 30, 2020 to May 16, 2021
Hive
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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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Florence Kent, Jewish Refugees, 1935–1943. Lithograph. Allocated by the US Government, Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-210.
  1. Oct 3, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020
Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States
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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.
  1. Nov 5, 2020 to Mar 6, 2021
Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory
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Sculptures by Stephen Cartwright containing layers of clear and colored resin are on pedestals in the foreground. Freeform sculpture of foil and fabric by Melissa Pokorny are in the background in this gallery image of the Faculty Exhibition at KAM.
  1. Feb 18, 2021 to Apr 24, 2021
2021 School of Art + Design Faculty Exhibition
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Krannert Art Museum facade at night
  1. Apr 3, 2021 to Apr 24, 2021
2021 School of Art + Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

Events

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.
Oct 22, 2:30-4 pm
Homemade, with Love: Studio Art Days
Color photo of a smiling white woman in a grey dress and blue cardigan. She stands in a gallery with WPA prints installed at Krannert Art Museum.
Members Oct 23, 12 noon
Fall 2020 Krannert Art Museum Council Lecture and Luncheon
Yoga at Krannert Art Museum
Oct 23, 12 noon
Yoga at KAM: Virtual Edition
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.
Oct 23, 2:30-4 pm
Homemade, with Love: Studio Art Days
Print of a white man speaking into a microphone in front of a window that says "Campaign Headquarters." The audience is men of varying ages, races, and (by their clothing) social class. Some are listening. Some do not seem to be.
Oct 29, 4:30-6:30 pm
Pressing Issues Political Postcard Workshop
Yoga at Krannert Art Museum
Oct 30, 12 noon
Yoga at KAM: Virtual Edition

Stories

Color photo of a smiling white woman in a grey dress and blue cardigan. She stands in a gallery with WPA prints installed at Krannert Art Museum.
"Pressing Issues" at KAM Shows WPA Printmakers' Thoughts on Social Justice
Color print of the american flag with a brown face in the center and white faces and skulls in the upper left.
Message from the Director: May 31, 2020
Image of Bolivian skyline with new skyscraper that contains Native imagery in its architecture. The view is looking up from the courtyard of a much more traditional building.
Lives in Fragments: Reassessing the KAM Andean Collection
Image of a dark-haired woman leaning close to examine a textile that lays flat on a table. The woman is Andean researcher Rosa Varillas Palacios
Weaving Object Histories: Andean Textile Research at KAM
View of the front of Krannert Art Museum focusing on the gold 1961 brise soleil across the front facade of the building.
Campus-connected Resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Portrait of a young Black woman smiling in an art gallery, Before her is a brightly colored quilt and in the background art is installed on the walls with comfy furnishings for sitting, like a home setting.
Black girls create a space of their own in 'Homemade, with Love' exhibition at KAM

Collection Highlights

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
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982. Photo offset lithograph, serigraph. 73 x 49 inches. Art Acquisition Fund 1986-36-1.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You Rule by Pathetic Display), 1982
Charles Burchfield. The Four Seasons, 1949–1960. Watercolor. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund 1961-2-1
Charles Burchfield, The Four Seasons, 1949–1960
Ban Chiang Vessel, 4000 - 3000 BCE. Ceramic. Class of 1908 Fund 1979-9-1
Ban Chiang Vessel, 4th – 3rd millennium BCE
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