Cover: Carolee Schneemann, Exercise for Couples (detail), 1972. Self-shot gelatin silver prints with hand coloring and collage. Collection of the artist. Photo: Susan Alzner © Carolee Schneemann. Design: Studio Blue, Chicago.
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exhibitions
Carolee
Schneemann
Within and
Beyond the
Premises
January 27 through
April 1, 2012
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A multidisciplinary artist, Carolee Schneemann
transformed the definition of contemporary art,
steering it toward a discourse on the body, sexuality,
and gender. Schneemann initially examined these
issues through the medium of painting, but in
the early 1960s she began employing other media –
notably, performance and installation art and
documentary photography – to explore suppressive
taboos and the relationship between the individual
human body and the social body.
In the 1960s Schneemann became part of the
“experimental avant-garde” that included Robert
Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow,
Jim Dine, and other artists interested in moving
beyond Abstract Expressionism. She collaborated
with Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton,
and others to develop the Judson Dance Theater and
created performance productions involving multiple
participants that she called “kinetic theater.” Since
the mid-1960s, Schneemann has pursued film as
a mixed-media art form, and on occasion, within
the context of performance. These works place her
at the forefront of experimental film’s investigation
of materiality and abstraction, as well as feminist
content. Work of the late sixties and early eighties
January 26, 5–6 pm
Private Members’ Reception
Please RSVP to Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu)
by Friday, January 20.
January 26, 6–7 pm
(museum open until 9 pm)
Public Opening Reception
Featuring a gallery conversation with
exhibiting artist Carolee Schneemann
at 6 pm
Cash bar provided by Michaels’ Catering
Hosted by the Krannert Art Museum Council
February 23, 7 pm
Film Screening
!Women Art Revolution (2010)
Through intimate interviews, art, and
rarely seen archival film and video footage,
!Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman
Leeson reveals how the Feminist Art
Movement fused free speech and politics
into an art that radically transformed the
art and culture of our times.
KAM Auditorium
Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center
and Krannert Art Museum
March 1, 7:30 pm
Artist Lecture
“Mysteries of the Iconographies”
In her visual lecture, exhibiting artist
Carolee Schneemann travels backwards
and forwards in time. Recurring formal
properties are analyzed beginning with
obsessive childhood drawings of a
staircase. The mysteries of a notched stick,
paper folds, indentations, the slice
of line in space are followed as unexpected
structural motives, up to and including
her recent photographic grids and objects.
KAM Auditorium
Sponsored by the School of Art + Design
Ed Zagorski Visitor’s Series, Lorado Taft
Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and
Applied Arts, and Krannert Art Museum
included protest work related to the Vietnam War
and the atrocities in Beirut.
This retrospective exhibition presents Schneemann’s
career from her earliest work to her most recent
investigations, ultimately revealing the artist’s
thought process. The exhibition includes paintings,
drawings, photography, installation work, video
projections, and writings. Schneemann is a MFA
graduate from the School of Art + Design, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the
Premises, curated by Brian Wallace, was first
organized by and presented at the Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art, State University of New York
at New Paltz from February 6 through July 25, 2010.
This revised presentation has been organized by
Krannert Art Museum in partnership with the Henry
Art Gallery, University of Washington.
Curators: Elizabeth Brown and Kathleen Harleman
Sponsored in part by the School of Art + Design
Ed Zagorski Visitor’s Fund
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Snows, 1967
Kinetic Theater
Performance Martinique
Theater, NYC
Photo: Herbert Migdoll
© Carolee Schneemann
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exhibitions
Fifty Years
Contemporary
American
Glass from
Illinois
Collections
January 27 through
April 29, 2012
Fifty Years: Contemporary American Glass from
Illinois Collections is designed as a sampling
tour through the world of American contemporary
glass art, showing the wide diversity of technique
and vocabulary used by artists.
In 1962 Harvey Littleton, then ceramicist at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison, along with
Dominick Labino, vice-president of the Johns
Manville Corporation, developed a small glass
furnace on the grounds of the Toledo Museum of
Art. This major development in glassmaking
allowed an artist to create works in an independent
studio setting. In addition, Littleton organized
two workshops to demonstrate the use of glass as
an artistic medium. These workshops became the
foundation of the American Studio Glass Movement.
In the beginning, there were two distinguishing
characteristics of American studio glass:
unification of the roles of designer and maker
and a focus on blown glass as distinct from
other processes of forming objects from glass. Fifty
years later, these two characteristics no longer
describe American glass art. Blown glass is still a
major thread; however, cast glass, coldworked
glass, and hot-sculpted glass are also important
techniques of the movement. Although many
January 26, 5–6 pm
Private Members’ Reception
Please RSVP to Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu)
by Friday, January 20.
January 26, 6–7 pm
(museum open until 9 pm)
Public Opening Reception
Featuring a gallery conversation with
exhibiting artist Carolee Schneemann
at 6 pm
Cash bar provided by Michaels’ Catering
Hosted by the Krannert Art Museum Council
artists design and make their own pieces, others,
February 9, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Tour
“Through the Glass, Looking”
Tour of the exhibition Contemporary
American Glass with Jon Liebman,
guest curator
KAM Contemporary Gallery
notably Dale Chihuly, work with gaffers who
make pieces under their direction.
This exhibition emphasizes the latter half of
the movement’s fifty-year history in this country,
although a few early pieces are included. The
works are all drawn from the private collections
of those living in Illinois, with a small bias
towards artists with a connection to Illinois. A few
March 8, 5:30 pm
Panel Discussion
“Contemporary American Glass”
Discussion with Jon Liebman, guest
curator; Carmen Lozar, artist; John Miller,
assistant professor of Art, Illinois State
University; Amy Rueffert, instructor of
Ceramics, U of I; and Joy Thornton-Walter,
collector
KAM Auditorium
of the artists represented in the exhibition,
including Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, and Joel Philip
Myers, were students of, or were directly inspired
by Littleton, while many others were students
of Littleton’s students. Almost all of the artists
are actively producing glass art today, with the
exception of Littleton, Labino (who is deceased),
and William Morris.
Guest Curator: Jon Liebman
Sponsored in part by the Art Alliance for Contemporary
Glass, Midwest Contemporary Glass Art Group, Fox
Development Corporation, Jon and Judith Liebman, and
Joy Thornton-Walter and John Walter
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Untitled, 2011
Cast glass
Courtesy of Jon and
Judith Liebman
Photo: Chris Brown
© Nicolas Africano
Krannert Art Museum Spring 2012 News 7
exhibitions
After Abstract
Expressionism
January 27
through April 29,
2012
Post-war Abstract Expressionism had
century. As artists began to use a
established itself as a popular style
diverse range of media, they continued
within the art world by the late 1950s.
to blur the lines of art and life.
However, at that time many artists
did not share the same interest in
exploring the inner creativity of the
artist and began to challenge the
Abstract Expressionists by turning
almost exclusively to culture. Instead
January 26, 5–6 pm
Private Members’ Reception
Please RSVP to Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu)
by Friday, January 20.
January 26, 6–7 pm
(museum open until 9 pm)
Public Opening Reception
Featuring a gallery conversation with
exhibiting artist Carolee Schneemann
at 6 pm
Cash bar provided by Michaels’ Catering
Hosted by the Krannert Art Museum Council
of exploring the artist’s individuality,
these assemblage and Pop artists
renewed a relationship between art
and everyday life by incorporating
popular culture through the use of
found objects and images from
popular media.
Artists continued to challenge how
the meaning of works of art was
uncovered during the radical 1960s
and into the 1970s. Rather than
finding meaning exclusively within the
work, artists placed more emphasis
on the context in which the work
of art existed. The context became
increasingly more social and political,
which pushed the boundaries of
what constituted art. This interrogation,
which ushered in the age of
Postmodernism, looked back to
what the artist Marcel Duchamp
confronted in the early twentieth
This installation from the museum’s
permanent collection highlights a broad
range of artistic styles – mainly from
the United States – during the late 1950s
through the early 1980s, from Nouveau
Réalisme to Pop Art and Minimalism.
Jerusalem Saved!
Inness and
the Spiritual
Landscape
Through May 13,
2012
This selection, including paintings,
sculpture, and works on paper by Sam
Francis, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly,
Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland,
Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint
Phalle, and Frank Stella, illustrates the
diverse ways that artists attacked
notions of modernism.
Curator: Kathryn Koca Polite
Krannert Art Museum celebrates the
return of nineteenth-century
American artist George Inness’s
Evening Landscape, a fragment from
a monumental canvas entitled The
New Jerusalem, after a miraculous
conservation treatment at the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
This focus exhibition reunites surviving
portions of The New Jerusalem,
which was damaged in a roof collapse
while on display at Madison Square
Garden in New York City in 1880.
School of Art +
Design Bachelor
of Fine Arts
May 6 through
13, 2012
April 14, 5–7 pm
Public Opening Reception
Cash bar provided by Corkscrew Wine
Emporium
May 5, 5–7 pm
Public Opening Reception
In this annual exhibition, BFA graduates
present a range of art and design
This annual exhibition represents the
studio practices that illustrate new and
culmination of intense artistic
established technologies in material
development for graduate students
and virtual realms. The exhibition gives
in studio art and design. Marking
a public form to an undergraduate
a meaningful step further into the art
curriculum committed to the arts as both
world, the exhibition highlights and
a distinct and necessary approach to
celebrates the artists’ exceptional
understanding, as well as an expression
creativity, curiosity, and inventiveness.
of diverse human experiences.
Sponsored in part by John and Alice Pfeffer
Sponsored in part by John and Alice Pfeffer
The artist recovered the canvas from
the rubble and cut it into at least
three paintings now divided between
Baltimore and Urbana-Champaign.
Building on recent scholarship by
art historians Sally Promey, Michael
Quick, and former University of Illinois
professor Rachael Z. DeLue, the
story of the loss and salvage of this key
work in the artist’s career introduces
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School of Art +
Design Master
of Fine Arts
April 15 through
29, 2012
the visitor to the cultural context,
inspirational sources, and spiritual
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color theory artfully encoded into
Inness’s landscapes.
Curator: Robert G. La France
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Peace Through Chemistry IV, 1970
Lithograph
John Needles Chester Fund
1983-7-1
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
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Fine Arts, 2011
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acquisitions
RECENT
ACQUISITIONS
krannert
Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum acquires
Throughout 2011 KAM’s first
works in various ways. Each year
50 years were remembered and
generous individuals, personal
celebrated. Now is the time
estates, and artists provide the
to look forward and continue to
museum with gifts of specific
acquire, preserve, exhibit,
works of art.
research, and interpret works of
Individuals also establish art
John McCracken
develop everything to ‘single things’ –
things which refer to nothing outside
[themselves] but which at the same time
Trained at the California College of
the Arts (formerly California College
possibly refer, or relate, to everything.”
This work is one of many that Robert D.
of Arts and Crafts) in Oakland, John
Kleinschmidt has given to KAM from his
McCracken (1934–2011) used color as
impressive collection of approximately
“material,” which became a defining
200 works of modern and contemporary
characteristic in his paintings and
art, housed in his Mies van der Rohe-
sculptures. Although he was primarily
designed apartment in Chicago.
known for his signature plank sculptures
– narrow, rectangular boards painted
in monochromatic colors that leaned
Kleinschmidt, an architect whose
professional beliefs have continually
influenced his collecting of art, received
against the wall – his paintings and
his bachelor’s degree from the U of I
screen prints often included geometric
and a graduate degree in architecture
shapes in solid areas of bright color,
and landscape design from Columbia
which is evident in Mandula (1972). With
University. He ultimately returned
this work, the pulsating concentric
to Chicago to work at Skidmore, Owings
circles are also evocative of Buddhist
and Merrill. After twelve years, he
and Hindu mandalas. McCracken once
and fellow associate partner, Donald
said, “My tendency is to reduce or
O. Powell left to establish their own
firm, Powell/Kleinschmidt.
art in the museum’s collection.
In 2007, KAM and Kleinschmidt
acquisition funds for the purchase
organized the exhibition, An Architect
of other works to help augment
Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt
the permanent collection. In
and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions.
addition, KAM has established a
The exhibition was designed by
practice of collecting work from
Kleinschmidt and celebrated the fact
the exhibitions it organizes. Several
that he has bequeathed his entire
of the works illustrated here were
collection to Krannert Art Museum.
included in the Fall 2011 exhibition
Recent Acquisitions, 2006–2011,
which not only celebrated the
museum’s collection but also the
generosity of so many who
believe in the mission of Krannert
Art Museum. 05
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Mandula, 1972
Screenprint
Gift of Robert D. Kleinschmidt
2007-15-1
© Estate of John McCracken
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acquisitions
Odundo’s ceramic vessels, rooted in
is a lifetime trustee and was a past
both African and European modernist
president. The Noels have also given
forms, are informed by her deep
significantly to the U of I, particularly to
study of the world’s ceramic history.
Intercollegiate Athletics, Krannert
Deliberately blurring the boundaries
Art Museum, and Krannert Center for
Born in Kenya in 1950, Magdalene
between the abstract and the figural,
the Performing Arts.
Odundo moved to England in 1971
she makes subtle references to the
to train initially in graphic art, and later
human form, hairstyles, or to the body
turned to clay. She returned to Africa
adorned. Though Odundo shapes
in 1974–75, visiting Nigeria and then
her vessels with exquisite, technical
Kenya to study the ways women make
precision, she delights in the “alchemy
pottery and to learn their thousand-
that occurs in firing,” which transforms
years-old traditions of hand-building
the “severe, static orange into so
and firing. She also traveled to New
many unpredictable shades of black.”
Magdalene
Odundo
Mexico and observed the women
of San Ildefonso who are known for
their distinctive blackware vessels.
Odundo returned to the London area
where she still lives and works.
David Smith
1952 is more representative, evocating
classical repertoire in recitals. Robert
hands playing trumpets or another
was given the opportunity to choose any
musical instrument.
two of David’s drawings if Robert would
David Smith (1906–65), perhaps the
Robert B. Smith, the individual who
most influential Abstract Expressionist
gifted these two drawings, met the
sculptor, experimented with drawing
sculptor David Smith in 1952–53 while
The Noels have established major art
and painting at the same time as he
both were teaching at the University
acquisition funds at the museum,
was creating sculptures. However, this
of Arkansas. Robert, assistant professor
and they actively collaborate in purchase
drawing is not a study for a potential
in the Music Department, and David,
decisions. In 2010, KAM was interested
sculpture but is instead what the artist
guest artist in the Art Department, both
in acquiring a work to be featured in the
described as “what sculpture could
had studios in the Fine Arts Center
upcoming reinstallation of the African
never be.” The imagery in Untitled from
and, as such, developed a friendship.
Gallery. After deliberating between
Each teased the other about their focus
two works by African artists, the Noels
in the arts – Robert about David’s
Richard and Rosann Noel are very
and the museum’s curator shared
new direction in sculpture and David
generous and active members of the
the decision to acquire this exceptional
about Robert’s over-reliance on the
Champaign-Urbana community.
ceramic vessel by Odundo.
play an “All No Beethoven” concert. After
the concert, David offered to buy back
the two drawings, but Robert refused to
part with them.
They founded the Noel Foundation in
1981, which has funded large grants
to support institutions such as Parkland
College and Cunningham Children’s
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Home. Richard is recently retired as a
director of the National Kidney
Foundation of Illinois, where Rosann
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Vessel (Untitled), 2009
Red clay, multi-fired
Richard M. and Rosann
Gelvin Noel Krannert Art
Museum Fund
2010-3-1
© Magdalene Odundo
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Untitled, 1952
Egg ink and tempera on
paper
Gift of Robert B. Smith
2010-11-1
Art © Estate of David
Smith/Licensed by VAGA,
New York, NY
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acquisitions
William Wegman
A video artist, painter, and photographer,
William Wegman is one of the leading
American conceptual artists of the
late 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1943 in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, Wegman
received his MFA in painting from the
launched what became a lifetime of
It is a very special event when
photographic projects featuring
exceptional artists give us their works.
generations of his celebrated pet dogs.
White Shade is a gift from William
Using sets, poses, and props, Wegman
Wegman and his wife Christine Burgin.
has deployed his beloved Weimaraners
A second work by Wegman, Boarding
in photographs ranging from satire and
(1997) was a gift/purchase. White Shade
Although better known as a painter of
visual pun that poke fun at art historical
is one of the artist’s favorites and
the French Romantic period, Théodore
subjects and conventions, to portraits
Boarding is from his personal collection
Géricault (1791–1824) was also an
that convey the deepest humanity.
and has not been for sale.
early adopter of lithography. During his
University of Illinois at Urbana-
White Shade (1994) demonstrates
Champaign in 1967. In 1978, he began
Wegman’s attention to formal,
taking pictures of his dog, Man Ray,
more technical dimensions of the
with a large-format (20 x 24 inches)
photographic image. With head lowered
Polaroid camera. These early images
and feet apart, a Weimaraner stands
Théodore
Géricault
brief and turbulent career, the artist
obsessed over equine, war, and literary
subjects, along with images of the
sick and insane. This hand-colored
lithograph (1818), a rare print, likely
depicts a monumental Egyptian soldier
is a mutually rewarding process and
protecting a wounded Frenchman
the results to date have been stellar
during the defeat of Napoleon’s multinational Grande Armée at Waterloo.
A positive relationship between
Professor Robert L. Carringer and Mrs.
– four exquisite prints by the French
Romantic artist, Théodore Géricault and
one compelling print by the Spanish
Romantic artist, Francisco Goya.
Sonia R. Carringer and KAM first
Ultimately, the Carringers initiated
began when they gave works of art
a major deferred gift to KAM that will
from their personal collection. The
support the Carringer Art Acquisition
relationship deepened with the
Fund in perpetuity. On making this
establishment of “The Robert and Sonia
gift, Professor and Mrs. Carringer stated
Carringer Art Acquisition Fund;”
that theirs is a good example of the
works of art are sought, researched,
ability of “ordinary people” to leave a
discussed, and purchased for the
significant gift for future use.
behind what appears to be a thin,
museum’s permanent collection in
diaphanous curtain lowered to its ankles.
collaboration with the Carringers. It
The visual weight and balance of
the transected image seems to enhance
the sense of a dog in waiting.
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White Shade, 1994
Silver gelatin print
Gift of the artist
2009-3-1
© William Wegman
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An Egyptian Mameluke
Defending a Wounded
French Trumpeter at
Waterloo, 1818
Hand-colored lithograph
Robert and Sonia
Carringer Art Acquisition
Fund
2011-1-1
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acquisitions
Robert Natkin
Robert Natkin (1930–2010) was a
Chicago-born artist who became known
patterns. Natkin even handwrites the
Fine Arts, thus creating the nation’s first
Acquisitions by gift or
names of artists and composers
community arts council. He was the
purchase came from
within one of the grid’s boxes: Klee,
first chairman of the Illinois Arts Council
the individuals, estates,
Cézanne, Vermeer, Bonnard, Chardin,
from 1963–71 and a consultant for the
trusts, funds, and
Bach, Mozart, and Debussy.
National Endowment for the Arts during
foundations at right.
for his large-scale paintings, which
George M. Irwin, a devoted advocate for
were layered with bright colors and
the arts, has gifted to Krannert Art
floating abstract forms, oftentimes
Museum a large portion of his private
covered with a subtle texture that was
collection, which is comprised of
created by using cloth and netting.
both twentieth century American and
the 1960s and 1970s. Irwin has also
served on the Board of Trustees for the
Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, MacMurray College, and the
Ravinia Festival Association.
2006–2011
Luke Batten
Robert and Sonia Carringer
Bernice Schwartz Crawley
Estate
Donald Crummey
Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Dryer
Richard Faletti
Ann and James Gallivan
Christian Hill
Although he was influenced by various
European works of art as well as
Former KAM Director, Muriel
Laurie Hogin
artists, namely his contemporary
works from well-known Illinois artists,
B. Christison, was quoted in 1980 as
George M. Irwin
Willem de Kooning and the modernists
such as Leon Golub and Jim Nutt. In
saying “It is seldom that one finds
Ned Jenison
Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee,
1946 Irwin initiated a community arts
a person who has participated so
Robert D. Kleinschmidt
Natkin’s style was all his own. His
society in Quincy, Illinois, with the
extensively in local, state, and national
Knoll Inc.
smaller scale watercolor Praise
Quincy Chamber Music Ensemble; then
activities for the cultural enrichment
Mrs. Philip Kolb
God (1967) evokes a similar serenity
in 1947 he founded the Quincy Society of
of contemporary life.” More than thirty
Wynn and Sally Kramarsky
and intimacy as his larger paintings –
years later, Krannert Art Museum still
light brushstrokes of bright colors dance
enjoys working with George Irwin and
Rosenberg Estate
Jon and Judith Liebman
Jonathan Sadler
William McPherrin and
James B. Sinclair and
Keith Robinson
Elmer A. Uelsmann
Dr. Teri Merens
Clella K. Slater Estate
Peter Michael
Robert B. Smith
Barbara Montgomery
James Sollins
Harlan E. Moore Charitable
Hedda Sterne
Trust Fund
Tamura Tadashi
Iver M. Nelson, Jr.
Tony Tasset
Richard M. and Rosann Noel
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Krannert Art Museum Fund
for the Visual Arts
John and Alice Pfeffer
Mark Warwick
Randall J. Pollock
William Wegman
Bernice Postel
Margaret Wolf
Donald D. Powell
Richard Powers
Leandro P. Rizzuto
of his thoughtful career as a noted
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Mr. and Mrs. Marvin D.
William Lieberman
Mrs. Carl Regehr
remains honored to be the beneficiary
on the paper in distinct grid-like
Sandra Romanshko
Kruse Family Trust
Annette Lemieux
connoisseur and patron of the arts.
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Praise God, 1967
Watercolor
Gift of George M. Irwin
2010-12-18
© Estate of Robert Natkin
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Así sucedió (This Is How
It Happened), plate 47 from
Los Desastres de la Guerra
(The Disasters of War),
1810–20
Etching, burnished lavis,
drypoint, burin, and
burnisher.
First edition, published
1863
Sepia ink on wove paper
Robert and Sonia Carringer
Art Acquisition Fund
2011-4-1
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grants + Awards
GRANT AWARDS
krannert
art museum
In the last eighteen months, KAM has
Arts Alliance for Contemporary Glass
received approximately twenty grants
(Fifty Years: Contemporary American
from sources external and internal to
Glass from Illinois Collections)
the University.
Midwest Contemporary Glass Art
These successes increase revenue
(Fifty Years: Contemporary American
and allow important projects to
Glass from Illinois Collections)
be realized. Earned revenue has also
grown substantially with venue fees for
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13 internal grants
traveling exhibitions and catalogue sales
through a distribution agreement with
the University of Washington Press.
Recent external grants received include
the following:
Preservation Assistance Grant
for Smaller Institutions, National
Endowment for the Humanities
(storage and matting supplies for works
KAm publications
win DESIGN
AWARDS
The catalogue for KAM’s 2010
exhibition, The Strange Life of Objects:
The Art of Annette Lemieux, was
on paper)
one of five publications to win Awards
Preservation Assistance Grant
Typographic Arts (STA), as well as the
for Smaller Institutions, National
Judge’s Choice.
Endowment for the Humanities
(Conservation survey of Lee Wonsik
of Distinction from the Society of
KAM’s 2011 print materials (newsletter,
Collection of East Asian Art)
calendar, and exhibition announcement
Heritage Preservation, The National
competition – competing with 242 other
Institute for Conservation, Conservation
entries. The publications were included
card) were also winners in this
Assessment Program (conservation
in STA’s Chicago Design Archive
assessment)
(Archive11), which opened October 7 at
Hanna Kiel Fellowship, Harvard
the Harrington College of Design.
University Center for Italian Renaissance
The publication and print materials were
Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy
designed by the Chicago graphic design
(research)
firm, Studio Blue.
Illinois Arts Council (exhibition and
program funding)
Edwards Foundation Arts Fund
(Sudden Sound Concert series)
12 Installation view of
OPENSTUDIO, 2011
Featuring Juan
Angel Chávez’s
Speaker Project, 2006
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works on loan
WORKS ON LOAN
Krannert
art museum
The Blind Takes a
Vacation
Yet Taft admired one of Rodin’s
Maurice Maeterlinck. The story
Burghers of Calais at the Chicago
describes a community of lost disabled
World’s Fair in 1893, toured Rodin’s
travelers who turn to a sighted infant
studio in 1895, and visited the artist
to lead them from a dark woods. In 1906,
again during the Paris World’s Fair
Taft and his circle staged the play (in
On September 7, 2011, Lorado Taft’s
in 1900. He reported on Rodin in
French) at their summer artists’ colony
bronze sculpture The Blind left for
the New York and Chicago newspapers
called Eagle’s Nest Camp near Oregon,
an all-expense-paid trip to California.
and lectured on Rodin’s genius to
Illinois, and Taft created a life-size
There it joined the exhibition Rodin and
captivated Midwestern audiences.
plaster model of the composition. The
America: Influence and Adaptation
1876–1936 at the Cantor Center for the
Visual Arts, Stanford University. This
major exhibition featured more than 100
sculptures, photographs, paintings, and
By the turn of the twentieth century,
Taft had clearly begun to adapt the
monumentality, gestural language,
simplified forms, and compositional
In January 2012 The Blind returned to
the museum’s Kinkead Pavilion entrance
in 1906–07) epitomizes Taft’s careful
and rejoined the new gallery installation
contemplation of Rodin’s style. Like
of Lorado Taft’s sculpture.
drawings by American artists inspired by
important works from its collection with other
Skirting Convention: Illinois Women Artists,
the work of the French sculptor Auguste
museums and institutions.
1840–1940
Rodin (1840–1917).
Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria,
Rodin, Taft rejects ornamental detail
Illinois (10.1.11–1.15.12)
Lorado Taft (1860–1936) took little
notice of Rodin while studying in Paris
and relies instead on the figures’
Peruvian silver: Model Funeral Cortege and
in the 1880s; he preferred the French
expressive faces, large hands, striking
KAM gains valuable scholarship and visibility for
Garden Set
academic sculptors Antonin Mercié,
poses, and massive drapery to
its works, develops collegial relationships with
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
Paul Dubois, and Alexandre Falguière.
convey meaning.
the institutions making the requests. By lending,
others that encourage loans to KAM’s own
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
The Blind represents a highly symbolic
exhibitions, and sometimes receives financial
California (10.3.11–10.3.12)
drama of the same title written in French
assistance to address conservation issues.
The following are recent loans made by KAM to
exhibitions organized by other institutions:
Dale Nichols, I Cultivate My Garden
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism
Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City,
Nebraska (5.2.11–8.31.11)
Georgia Art Museum, Athens, Georgia (12.17.11–
2.27.12)
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery,
Alabama (3.17.12–6.17.12)
Yves Tanguy, Suffering Softens Stones
Double Solitaire: The Surrealist Worlds of Kay
Sage and Yves Tanguy
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
in 1988.
grouping of Rodin’s most famous works.
Nellie Walker, Portrait of Lorado Taft
One indication of a collection’s caliber is the
cast in bronze for Krannert Art Museum
The Blind (first modeled in plaster
KAM welcomes the opportunity to share
number of loan requests a museum receives and
plaster came to the University of Illinois
after the artist’s death and was finally
by the Belgian poet and playwright
Lorado Taft, The Blind and Solitude of the Soul
Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation
1876–1930
Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford
University, Stanford, California (10.5.11–1.1.12)
William Congdon, Assisi #1
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The Sabbath of History
Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven,
Connecticut (2.22.12–9.16.12)
Mark Rothko, No. 13
Hans Hofmann, Apparition
West to East: Retracing the Landscape of
American Abstraction
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
(9.18.12–12.18.12).
(6.5.11–8.28.11)
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
(10.8.11–1.8.12)
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
(1.28.12–5.12.12)
Edward Weston Photographs (twenty)
Edward Weston: American Photographer
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
(6.18.11–10.9.11)
Max Beckmann, Beaulieu
Max Beckmann. The Landscapes
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
(9.4.11–1.22.12)
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The Blind, 1908 (cast 1988)
Bronze
Estate of William S. Kinkead
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EVENTS
discussions
lectures luncheons
performances
VOICE reading series
sudden sound series
film screenings
IPRH FILM SERIES
experiences
SPEAK CAFE tango
pecha-kucha night
petals & Paintings
MEMBERS’ NIGHT yoga
family events
kids @ krannert
DISCUSSIONS
p. 23
February 9, 5:30 pm
Exhibition Tour
“Through the Glass, Looking”
Tour of the exhibition Contemporary
American Glass with Jon Liebman,
guest curator
KAM Contemporary Gallery
School of Art + Design Lecture Series:
Intervention
The School of Art + Design Lecture Series
is the marquee series of the Visitors
Program and is designed to showcase
notable national and international artists,
February 11, 1­–3 pm
designers, and scholars whose work or
Arts Symposium
point of view is engaging and topical. This
“The Mind/Body Problem”
year’s series has the theme of “Intervention.”
Initiated by dance artist/choreographer/
KAM Auditorium
performer/director Miguel Gutierrez, this
Sponsored by the Frances P. Rohlen Visiting
symposium features special guests
Artists Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts,
from the fields of neurology, embodied
School of Art + Design Visitors Fund, and
philosophy, somatic practices,
Krannert Art Museum
improvisation, and the paranormal. They
come together to discuss how they
January 30, 5:30 pm
articulate the idea of body/mind or body
“Jayson Musson aka Hennessy Youngman
vs. mind, the particularities of their
on Intervention”
approaches, where there is overlap or
Talk/performance by Jayson Musson,
differences in their discoveries, and why.
performance artist, critic, vlogger (video
KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery
blogger), and hip-hop performer, who
Sponsored
by the Department of Dance and
intervenes on issues such as art history,
Krannert Art Museum
museum culture, institutional critique,
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p. 25
art economies, race, and hip-hop culture
p. 26
February 22, 5:30 pm
“Mincing Molehills”
Graphic designers Neil Donnelly, Mary
Voorhees Meehan, and Daniella Spinat
highlight the concept of intervention and
expand on the designer’s role in visual
communication.
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SF Tacoma Group #3,
2006–07
Blown glass
Courtesy of Mr. and
Mrs. Barry Rice
Photo: Chris Brown
© Marvin Lipofsky
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EVENTS
March 1, 7:30 pm
Artist Lecture
“Mysteries of the Iconographies”
In her visual lecture, exhibiting artist
Carolee Schneemann travels backwards
and forwards in time. Recurring formal
properties are analyzed beginning
with obsessive childhood drawings of
a staircase. The mysteries of a notched
stick, paper folds, indentations, the slice of
line in space are followed as unexpected
structural motives, up to and including her
recent photographic grids and objects.
KAM Auditorium
Sponsored by the School of Art + Design
Ed Zagorski Visitor’s Series, Lorado Taft
Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and
Applied Arts, and Krannert Art Museum
March 8, 5:30 pm
Panel Discussion
“Contemporary American Glass”
Discussion with Jon Liebman, guest
curator; Carmen Lozar, artist; John Miller,
assistant professor of Art, Illinois State
University; Amy Rueffert, instructor of
Ceramics, U of I; and Joy Thornton-Walter,
collector
KAM Auditorium
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April 19, 5:30 pm
Lecture
“When Computers Look at Art: Image
Analysis in Humanistic Studies of the
Visual Arts”
Talk by David Stork, distinguished
research scientist and research director,
Computational Sensing and Imaging
Initiative, Rambus Labs
What can computers reveal about images
that even the best-trained connoisseurs,
art historians, and artists cannot? In this
illustrated lecture for non-scientists, Stork
will address how computer image analysis
is changing our understanding of art.
KAM Auditorium
Sponsored by CAS/MillerComm; Beckman
Institute; Department of Computer Science;
Department of Mathematics; School of Art +
Design, Art History Department; and Krannert
Art Museum
May 4, 12 pm
Spring Luncheon and Lecture
“David Wojnarowicz: Queer in Normal”
Talk by Barry Blinderman, director,
University Galleries, Illinois State
University
Please contact Chris Schaede (217 244
0516 or kam@illinois.edu) for reservation
information.
Champaign Country Club
Sponsored by the Krannert Art Museum
Council
PERFORMANCES
VOICE Reading Series
The VOICE Reading Series showcases
readings by fiction writers and poets from
the Creative Writing MFA program.
KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program
and Krannert Art Museum
February 16, 7:30 pm
March 15, 7:30 pm
April 19, 7:30 pm
Sudden Sound Concert Series
The Sudden Sound Concert Series
presents leading artists in the fields of
improvised music and the jazz avantgarde, establishing Krannert Art Museum
as a destination for enthusiasts of today’s
most progressive music from the U.S. and
abroad. Curated by Jason Finkelman
KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery
Sponsored by the Edwards Foundation Arts
Fund, Analog Outfitters, and Krannert Art
Museum with in-kind support provided by
WEFT, 90.1 FM
March 8, 7:30 pm
Featuring Jimmy Bennington’s Colour
and Sound
Mentored by Elvin Jones in the last
decade of his career, Jimmy Bennington
carries forward drumming in the free jazz
tradition, which established collaborations
with Julian Priester, Perry Robinson, and
Ed Schuller. Colour and Sound features
Bennington with the dynamic, improvising
cellist Cathy Kuna who mixes classical
training with strong influences of global
and American roots music.
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March 29, 7:30 pm
Featuring Kihnoua
In ancient Greek, Kihnoua is “the
difference,” an apropos title for
saxophonist Larry Ochs’ San Franciscobased ensemble exploring the
combination of “Western improvised
music” with ancient sounds from Korea
and other folk forms. Perfect foils
for Kihnoua are South Korean vocalist
Dohee Lee, fusing traditional music with
contemporary elements, and drummer
Scott Amendola, further expanding
his sonic palette with custom designed
electronics.
FILM SCREENINGS
IPRH Film Series
Presented by the Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities, this series is
free and open to the public.
KAM Auditorium
Sponsored by the Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities and Krannert Art
Museum
February 2, 5:30 pm
Valley Girl (1983)
Martha Coolidge, director; starring Nicolas
Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily,
Frederic Forrest, Michael Bowen
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Up To And Including Her
Limits, 1973–76
Crayon on paper, manila
rope, harness; 2-channel
analogue video/audio
transferred to digital
video; electronics,
monitors, and players;
Super 8 film projector
29 min
Collection of the artist
Photo: Henrik Gaard
© Carolee Schneemann
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February 16, 5:30 pm
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Errol Morris, director; documentary
March 15, 5:30 pm
Three Kings (1999)
David O. Russell, director; starring
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube,
Spike Jonze
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Photo: Petra Cvelbar
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EVENTS
February 23, 7 pm
Film Screening
!Women Art Revolution (2010)
Through intimate interviews, art, and
rarely seen archival film and video footage,
!Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hersman
Leeson reveals how the Feminist Art
Movement fused free speech and politics
into an art that radically transformed the
art and culture of our times.
Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center
and Krannert Art Museum
EXPERIENCES
SPEAK Café
SPEAK Café is an open-mic public space
for hip-hop, activism, and Black Power
expression. Organized and moderated by
Aaron Ammons
Palette Café
Sponsored by African American Studies,
Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural
Center, 40 North/88 West, and Krannert Art
Museum
February 2, 7–9 pm
Black is Back!
March 1, 7–9 pm
S(heroes) of S.P.E.A.K.
April 5, 7–9 pm
The Revolution Will Be Live!
Tango at KAM
Enjoy tango dancing with live music
by Tangotta (Armand Beaudoin, bass/cello;
Dorothy Martirano, violin; Chris Reyman,
keyboard and accordion; and George
Turner, guitar). Organized by Melih Sener
and Chantelle Hougland
KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery
February 4, 12–5 pm
March 3, 12–5 pm
April 12, 6–9 pm
March 28, 5:30 pm
Members’ Night
Enjoy an exclusive evening at Krannert
Art Museum and get a sneak peek of what’s
coming: building renovations, gallery
reinstallations, upcoming exhibitions, and
education initiatives. Presentations will be
followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Please RSVP to Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu)
by Friday, March 23.
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April 7, 8:20 pm
Pecha-Kucha Night Champaign-Urbana
No. 9
20 Slides, 20 Seconds Each with emcee
Michael Morgan
Possible mature content, ages 18+
KAM East Gallery
Sponsored by CUDO and Krannert Art
Museum
Petals & Paintings
This annual museum fundraiser and twoday exhibition features innovative floral
displays created by award-winning floral
designers from across the Midwest.
The floral arrangements are in response
to works in KAM’s permanent collection.
The exhibition is curated by Rick Orr, a
member of the American Institute of
Floral Designers.
April 20, 6:30–9 pm
Museum benefit reception
Celebrate the opening night benefit
reception, featuring art, flowers, and music,
with hors d’oeuvres by Michaels’ Catering.
Call 217 244 0516 for ticket information.
April 21, 9 am–5pm
Exhibition open to the public with docentled tours 10 am–4 pm
April 22, 12–5 pm
Exhibition open to the public
Yoga
A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga
classes introduces participants to
the fundamentals of hatha yoga: seated
and standing asanas (poses), breath
awareness, and relaxation techniques.
Participants should bring their own yoga
mats and wear comfortable clothing.
Classes are limited to 20 participants and
are first-come, first-serve.
Collections Resource Laboratory
FAMILY EVENTS
Kids@Krannert
The museum opens its doors to handson fun for the entire family. Join us for
a variety of art projects, family tours,
demonstrations, and other exciting events.
For children ages 3–8 and their families.
February 25, 10 am–12 pm
April 29, 2–4 pm
In conjunction with The School of Art +
Design Saturday School Open House
(Please note that this event is on Sunday.)
Fridays, January 27 through May 4,
12–1 pm; no session March 23
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Photo: Lawrence McGown
18 Tango at KAM, 2011
Photo: Lawrence McGown
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Photo: Lawrence McGown
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calendar
SPRING 2012
EXHIBITIONS
AND EVENTS
Visitor information
The museum will be closed on
Wednesday, July 4
The museum’s galleries will
close at 5 pm on Sunday,
July 29 and reopen at 9 am
Tuesday, August 28.
Location
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion is located on
the campus of the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
at the corner of Sixth Street and
Peabody Drive in Champaign,
Illinois.
Parking
Metered spaces are available
near the museum. Some
spaces on Peabody Drive are
designated for museum
visitors and require a parking
pass available from the
museum guards. On weekends
and after 6 pm on weekdays,
parking is free.
Accessibility
The museum is accessible to
all visitors. Handicapped
parking, ramp access, and
automated doors are located
at the east entrance on
Sixth Street. Wheelchairs are
available for visitor use.
Partners
Krannert Art Museum partners
with 40 North/88 West to
promote a rich cultural
environment in Champaign
County.
Exhibitions and programs are
partially supported by a grant
from the Illinois Arts Council, a
state agency.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
26 Thursday
2 Thursday
Exhibitions Opening
Carolee Schneemann: Within
and Beyond the Premises
Fifty Years: Contemporary
American Glass from Illinois
Collections
After Abstract Expressionism
5:30 pm
IPRH Film Series
Valley Girl (1983)
5–6 pm
Private Members’ Reception
Please RSVP to Chris
Schaede (217 244 0516 or
kam@illinois.edu) by Friday,
January 20.
3 Friday
6–7 pm
(museum open until 9 pm)
Public Opening Reception
Featuring a gallery
conversation with exhibiting
artist Carolee Schneemann
at 6 pm
Cash bar provided by Michaels’
Catering
Hosted by the Krannert Art
Museum Council
27 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
30 Monday
5:30 pm
School of Art + Design Lecture
Series
“Jayson Musson aka Hennessy
Youngman on Intervention”
Talk/performance by Jayson
Musson, performance artist,
critic, vlogger (video blogger),
and hip-hop performer
7–9 pm
SPEAK Café
Open mic
12–1 pm
Yoga
4 Saturday
12–5 pm
Tango at KAM
Live music by Tangotta
9 Thursday
5:30 pm
Exhibition Tour
“Through the Glass, Looking”
Tour of the exhibition
Contemporary American
Glass with Jon Liebman, guest
curator
10 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
11 Saturday
1­–3 pm
Arts Symposium
“The Mind/Body Problem”
Symposium initiated by
dance artist/choreographer/
performer/director Miguel
Gutierrez featuring special
guests
16 Thursday
5:30 pm
IPRH Film Series
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
7:30 pm
VOICE Reading Series
Featuring fiction writers and
poets
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17 Friday
2 Friday
28 Wednesday
12 Thursday
27 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
12–1 pm
Yoga
6–9 pm
Tango at KAM
Live music by Tangotta
12–1 pm
Yoga
22 Wednesday
3 Saturday
5:30 pm
Members’ Night
Sneak peek of what’s coming:
building renovations, gallery
reinstallations, upcoming
exhibitions, and education
initiatives
Please RSVP to Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.
edu) by Friday, March 23.
5:30 pm
School of Art + Design Lecture
Series
“Mincing Molehills”
Graphic designers Neil
Donnelly, Mary Voorhees
Meehan, and Daniella Spinat
highlight the concept of
intervention and expand on
the designer’s role in visual
communication.
23 Thursday
7 pm
Film Screening
!Women Art Revolution (2010)
24 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
25 Saturday
10 am–12 pm
Kids@Krannert
MARCH
1 Thursday
7–9 pm
SPEAK Café
Open mic
7:30 pm
Artist Lecture
“Mysteries of the Iconographies”
Visual lecture by exhibiting
artist Carolee Schneemann
12–5 pm
Tango at KAM
Live music by Tangotta
8 Thursday
5:30 pm
Panel Discussion
“Contemporary American Glass”
Discussion with Jon Liebman,
guest curator; Carmen Lozar,
artist; John Miller, assistant
professor of Art, Illinois State
University; Amy Rueffert,
instructor of Ceramics, U of I;
and Joy Thornton-Walter,
collector
7:30 pm
Sudden Sound Concert
Jazz avant-garde concert
series
Featuring Jimmy Bennington’s
Colour and Sound
9 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
15 Thursday
5:30 pm
IPRH Film Series
Three Kings (1999)
7:30 pm
VOICE Reading Series
Featuring fiction writers and
poets
16 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
29 Thursday
7:30 pm
Sudden Sound Concert
Jazz avant-garde concert series
Featuring Kihnoua
30 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
APRIL
1 Sunday
5 pm
Exhibition Closes
Carolee Schneemann: Within
and Beyond the Premises
5 Thursday
7–9 pm
SPEAK Café
Open mic
6 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
7 Saturday
8:20 pm
Pecha-Kucha Night
Champaign-Urbana No. 9
20 Slides, 20 Seconds Each
with emcee Michael Morgan
Possible mature content,
ages 18+
13 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
14 Saturday
5–7 pm
Exhibition Opening Reception
School of Art + Design Master
of Fine Arts
19 Thursday
5:30 pm
Lecture
“When Computers Look at Art:
Image Analysis in Humanistic
Studies of the Visual Arts”
Talk by David Stork,
distinguished research
scientist and research director,
Computational Sensing and
Imaging Initiative, Rambus
Labs
7:30 pm
VOICE Reading Series
Featuring fiction writers and
poets
20 Friday
12–1 pm
Yoga
6:30–9 pm
Petals & Paintings
Spring fundraising event
Featuring floral presentations
responding to works of art
21 Saturday
9 am–5 pm
Petals & Paintings
Exhibition open to the public
22 Sunday
29 Sunday
2–4 pm
Kids@Krannert
5 pm
Exhibitions Close
Fifty Years: Contemporary
American Glass from Illinois
Collections
After Abstract Expressionism
School of Art + Design Master
of Fine Arts
MAY
4 Friday
12 pm
Spring Luncheon and Lecture
“David Wojnarowicz: Queer in
Normal”
Talk by Barry Blinderman,
director, University Galleries,
Illinois State University
Please contact Chris Schaede
(217 244 0516 or kam@
illinois.edu) for reservation
information.
Champaign Country Club
12–1 pm
Yoga
5 Saturday
5–7 pm
Exhibition Opening Reception
School of Art + Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
13 Sunday
5 pm
Exhibitions close
School of Art + Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Jerusalem Saved! Inness and
the Spiritual Landscape
12–5 pm
Petals & Paintings
Exhibition open to the public
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MEMBERSHIP
SUPPORTING
KRANNERT ART
MUSEUM
The Friends of Krannert Art Museum are an
invaluable group of people who provide annual
financial support to KAM through their membership
contributions. These funds help support the
museum’s exciting exhibitions and educational
programs throughout the year.
Benefits of membership include private catered
receptions, members’ nights with special
programming just for members, and, at the
Benefactor level ($150) and above, reciprocal
benefits to museums across the Americas.
KAM is a member of the North American Reciprocal
Museum (NARM) program, which is an association
of arts and cultural institutions in Bermuda,
Canada, El Salvador, Mexico, and the United States
and offers select benefits of membership to each
others’ qualifying members. KAM also participates
in the Modern/Contemporary (Mod/Co) reciprocal
membership program begun by the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA). This program
is designed specifically to promote relationships
among the generous supporters of contemporary
and modern arts museums nationwide. If you travel
and visit museums, Benefactor is the level for you.
One of the most important benefits of being
a Krannert Art Museum member is knowing that
membership dollars help keep the museum’s
exhibitions, educational programs, and events free
and open to everyone in our own community and
beyond. A paid membership is a gift to the
museum, to you, and to the community at large.
If you are already a member, thank you for
your support. If not, please consider joining. Also,
please encourage friends to join and make
Krannert Art Museum a destination!
Beyond membership, charitable contributions,
based on personal choices, can also be made to
help shape the future of Krannert Art Museum.
Planned giving may be a viable option for those of
you who wish to support KAM in addition to or
instead of an annual membership contribution. Feel
free to contact me to discuss the possibilities.
Brenda Nardi
Director of Development
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Generous Funding provided by
National Endowment for
the Humanities
The National Institute for
Conservation
Illinois Arts Council
Arts Alliance for
Contemporary Glass
Midwest Contemporary
Glass Art Group
Krannert Art Museum Council
Office of the Chancellor
Lorado Taft Lectureship on
Art Fund
School of Art + Design
Visitors Series
School of Art + Design
Ed Zagorski Visitors Series
Public Engagement Grant, U of I
FAA Creative Research Awards, U of I
Office of the Provost and
Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs
Frances P. Rohlen Visiting
Artist Fund
Corporate Partners
Fox Development Corporation
Foundation Partners
Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts
Anthony Petullo Foundation
Edwards Foundation Arts Fund
Corporate & Foundation
Contributors
40 North/88 West
Ansel Law, Ltd.
Atkins Group (The Pines)
Champaign County Tent
Christie’s
Corkscrew Wine Emporium
Hickory Point Bank and Trust
M.K. Dailey Creative Associates
Noel Farms
Original Smith Printing
Pepsi-Cola CU Bottling
Company
Radio Maria
Robeson Family Benefit Fund
Sun Singer Wine and Spirits
WEFT 90.1 FM
Worn Jerabek Architects
Director’s Circle Members
Lifetime $1,000,000 +
Fred and Donna Giertz
Robert D. Kleinschmidt
Richard and Rosann Noel
$500,000 +
Robert and Sonia Carringer
George M. Irwin
Iver M. Nelson, Jr.
$100,000 +
Beth L. Armsey and James W.
Armsey
Richard J. Hanna and Byron S.
Dunham
Jon and Judith Leibman
John and Chris Moyer
Tony Petullo and Beverly Trier
Robert B. Smith
$10,000–$50,000
Neal Ball
John and Susan Brown
Michael J. Carragher
Peter and Kim Fox
Claire Hammer Huck
Phillip Kolb Family
Wynn and Sally Kramarsky
John and Alice Pfeffer
James B. Sinclair
Anonymous (1)
$1,000–$5,000
Marc and Fran Ansel
George O. and Sandra L. Batzli
James and Anastasia Economy
Margaret Frampton
Ned and Liza Goldwasser
Judi Gratkins
Robin Hall and Barbara Danley
Hall
Kathleen Harleman
Jim and Nancy Heins
Peter and Joan Hood
Icko and Miriam Iben
Abraham and Elizabeth
Kocheril
Wayne and Loretta LaFave
Carl and Vivian Larson
David and Nancy Morse
Gary and Fraeda Porton
Brian and Gloria Rainer
Kyle and Phyllis Robeson
James and Rachael Sullivan
Robert and Bonnie Switzer
Ed and Nancy Tepper
Nancy B. Tieken
John Walter and Joy ThorntonWalter
Anonymous (2)
Patron $500–999
Lee and Kay Andert
Craig and Donna Bazzani
Freda Birnbaum
Michael and Beverly Friese
Ron and Sheila Harshman
Alan and Clare Haussermann
Melissa McKillip
James Mullady and Robin
Douglas
Julian and Arlene Rappaport
B. Joseph and Mary White
Benefactor $150–499
James and Ruth Anderson
R. Allen and Elaine Avner
Judith Bach
Robert Ballsrud and Jennifer
Gunji-Ballsrud
R. Linn and Geneva Belford
John and Kathleen Bennett
Terry Capel
Michael and Panagiota Comet
Dan and Paula Deneen
John and Terri Dodson
Robert and Mary Ann Espeseth
Guy and Ruth Ann Fraker
Stanley and Frances Friedman
Mary Gaddy
James and Susan Gleason
David Goldberg
Robert and Nobuko Graves
Ernest and Lois Gullerud
Daniel Hamilton and Mary Ann
Winkelmes
Morris Hecker
Richard and Gloria Helfrich
Paul Horberg and Deena Noel
Horberg
Stanley and Judith Ikenberry
Jill Knappenberger
Frank and Patricia Knowles
George and Norma Kottemann
Curtis and Susan Krock
Bill and Jamie Kruidenier
Martha Landis
Raymond and Jane Leuthold
Helen and Emily Levin
Lou and Mary Liay
Paul Lubinski
Jon and Kay Machula
Rich and Margaret Martin
Walter Matherly and
Copenhaver Cumpston
Joanne McIntyre
Anna Merritt
Alan Mette
George and Diane Miller
Thomas and Martha Moore
Walter and Jane Myers
Dann and Brenda Nardi
Randall and Sheila Ott
David and Jean Peters
James Pettigrew and Cinda
Wombles-Pettigrew
Brandon Polite and Kathryn
Koca Polite
Anastase and Katie Pomonis
Chris Schaede
Mete and Joan Sozen
Allan and Cecile Steinberg
Blance Sudman
Dean and Carrie Turner
Norman and Dorothea Whitten
Richard and Ava Wolf
Gaye Wong
Jerald Wray and Dirk Mol
Anonymous (1)
Dual/Family $80–149
Donald and Sally Aldeen
Carl and Nadja Altstetter
Wells and Joann Anderson
Michael Andrechak and Kathryn
Seybert
George Antonakos and Anne
Sautman
Paul and Felice Bateman
Ronald and Susan Bates
Peter and Sandra Beak
Marie Bellington
Ken Bengoechea and Nancy
Johnson
Gerald and Lois Brighton
Dan and Marcia Carlier
Bernard Cesarone
Mary Kay Dailey
Darlene Dallas
Robert Dannehl
Glen Davies and Sandra Wolf
Harold and Nancy Diamond
Bernard and Christine Dunn
Dale and Margery Elliott
Keith and Virginia Erickson
Elizabeth Felts
Don and Sue Anne Fischer
Ralph and Ruth Fisher
Thelma Fite
Kurt and Peggy Froehlich
Jim and Tanya Gould
Howard and Carol Hobbs
John and Cynthia Jakle
David and Katherine Kinser
Julia Kling
Edward and Antje Kolodziej
Roger Laramee and Tim Bayley
Reed Larson and Sharon Irish
Frederick Lawrence
Stephen Levinson and Diana
Sheets
Dennis Lewis and Mary McGrath
Bernt Lewy and Jan Erkert
G. Frederick and Audrey Mohn
Mark Netter and Eve Harwood
Bruno and Wanda Nettl
Michael and Sheila O’Connor
Mark and Emily Palmer
Richard and Gertrude Reynolds
Marlyn Rinehart
Melvin and Janice Rothbaum
Andy Schuchart
Diane Schumacher
Dean Schwenk and Kim
Robeson-Schwenk
Lawrence and Frances Schook
Robert and Lucia Scully
Ron Sentowski and Nan Goggin
William and Jaqueline Severns
David Seyler and Kristen
Solberg
Carl Sinder
Charles Smyth and Audrey Ishii
Bernard and Prudence Spodek
Case and Elaine Sprenkle
Edith Stotler
Michael and Judith Thompson
Ralph and Carolyn Trimble
William and Sandra Volk
Charles and Sarah Wisseman
William Worn and Diane Baker
Peter and Ritchell Yau
Charles and Suzanne Younger
Anonymous (2)
Individual $45–79
Pora Ahn
Gisele Atterberry
Marolyn Banner
Jason Bentley
Clifton Bergeron
Mary Blair
June Burch
Dorothy Buzzard
Sandra Casserly
Melissa Chambers
June Cullum
Stephanie Czelder
Mary E. Dailey
Darlene Dallas
Deborah Day
Sara DeMundo Lo
Loretta Dessen
Polly Dodson
Ann Einhorn
Barbara J. Ford
Kelly Foster
Roxanne Frey
Joli Ginsberg
Kathryn Good
John Graham
Catherine Hamilton
Margaret Hansell
Patrick Harness
Wendy Heller
Kay Hodson
Edit Holloway
Maureen Holtz
Norma Howard
Betty Hughes
Nancy Ikenberry
Elizabeth Jones
Dolores Joseph
Stephen Kaufman
Susan Kelsch
Teresa Kinka
Glenda Lane
David Lange
Marilyn Leetaru
Brenda Lerner Berg
Marilyn Lindholm
Ruth Lorbe
Marguerite Maguire
Antonios Michalos
Ruth Moak
Gay Moore
Aiko Perry
Scott Preece
Lore Raether
Atron Regen
Irma Reiner
Dot Replinger
Selma Richardson
Robin Riggs
Janet Saad
Ann Sapoznik
Muriel Scheinman
Martha Seif
Harriett Shapland
Danielle Short
Paula Shurtz
Martha Sierra Perry
Jan Simon
Marie Slattery
Cheryl Snyder
Winton Solberg
Irina Stewart
Philip Strang
Edward Sullivan
SuAnn Thomas
Cathy Thurston
Susan Timmons
Diane Todd
Artemis Trebellas
Gerry Uhlfelder
Sophia Van Arsdell
Janann Vance
Yu Wang
Kathleen Weibel
Lisle Wiseman-Casper
Joan Roach Zagorski
Louisette Zuidema
Student $15–44
Lu Peng
Vanessa Rouillon
Yang Song
Xuewei Zhang
Members as of
November 1, 2011
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