A+D Student events

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Lowery Stokes Sims
- Lecture

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 11:00 am
Art & Design Visitors Series: Jane Terrana and Josh Milowe, "Mapping the body: A collaborative effort towards representation, awareness and empowerment"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: Bridging Differences to Build a "Beloved Community," Allison Briscoe-Smith - University of California Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center & 2025 Illinois Interfaith Conference Keynote Speaker
- Lecture

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL
A&D Visitor's Series: Alison Kobayashi, "Archives, Speculation and Kismet: Crafting Performance from Found Objects"
- Lecture

Friday, February 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: Breaking Chains, Building Communities: The Story of the AME Church, Rev. Terrance Thomas, Bethel AME Church
- Lecture

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- 316 A&D
Art History Colloquium, Samuel Johnson (Art History, Syracuse), “Face and Myth: Some Soviet Theories of the Portrait"
- Lecture

Friday, March 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: Defending Immigrants under a Trump Administration: An Immigrant Advocate's Perspective, Diana Rashid, Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow and Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, in conversation with current La Colectiva students
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 331 A&D
Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #2 Presentation
- Lecture

Thursday, March 13, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- 331 Art & Design Bldg.
Art & Design Visitors Series: Eli Craven
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
LaToya Ruby Frazier: "Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change"
- Lecture

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 12:30 pm
- 331 A&D
Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #3 Presentation
- Lecture

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: Plumas Negras by Juliette Carrillo, University of Illinois Department of Theater
- Lecture

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 331 A&D
Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #4 Presentation
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 331 A&D
Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #5 Presentation
- Lecture

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: To Thy Happy Children of the Future: Divestment as Progress, Students for Environmental Concerns, in conversation with Jim Hinterlong, UYMCA Executive Director
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- School of Art & Design Building / Link Gallery
TAKEOVER
- Exhibition

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarities Against Global Apartheids, Woman Life Freedom Collective and Humane Urbanisms Project
- Lecture

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Link Gallery/Krannert Art Museum
School of Art & Design MFA Exhibition Opening
- Exhibition
- 4:00 pm
- Link Gallery/Krannert Art Museum
School of Art & Design MFA Exhibition Opening
- Exhibition

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
Lecture by sustainable designer Joseph Dahmen (Architecture, UBC)
- Lecture

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall
A&D Visitor's Series: Cynthia Robles, "Emotional Intelligence through the Arts: A Focus on Alternative Pedagogical Models"
- Lecture

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 15 Temple Hoyne Buell (Atrium)
A&D Visitor's Series: Cynthia Robles Workshop: "Biography of Involuntary Memory”
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign, IL
University YMCA Friday Forum: Stories From Her Work as a Tribal Attorney, Land Defender and Founder of the Giniw Collective, Tara Houska, Tribal Attorney and Founder of the Giniw Collective
- Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Music Building Auditorium
Center for Advanced Study MillerComm2025: Music, Drama, and the Piano: Amy Williams, Composer, pianist
- Lecture

Saturday, May 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Link Gallery/Krannert Art Museum
School of Art & Design BFA Exhibition Opening
- Exhibition
- 6:30 pm
- Siebel Center for Design
School of Art & Design Re-Fashioned Fashion Show
- Performance