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Monday, April 7, 2025

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  • All Day
  • Main Library Room 346

  “We are each other’s harvest” : Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon

  RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.

  • Exhibition
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  • 5:30 - 7:00 pm
  • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign

  MMIR Exhibition Reception | Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives: Red Regalia Project

  Celebrate the exhibition opening of "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR): Red Regalia Project" created with Chicago-based Native artist Angel Starr (Omaha, Odawa, Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota) to call attention to violence against Indigenous Peoples. Part of the 2024–25 Native North American Art Residency. Reception in Link Gallery.

  • Exhibition