A+D Student events

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

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

- 12:30 pm
- 312 A&D
Yiqi Xiao, “Ways to Initiate Cross-Disciplinary Work, and Grow Through It”
- Lecture

Friday, April 11, 2025

- 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
- 224 Art & Design Bldg.
Zero-Waste Fashion Workshop: Design in CLO
- Conference/Workshop
- 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
- 5:00 - 7:30 pm
- John David Mooney Foundation, 114 W Kinzie St # 1, Chicago, IL
Industrial Design Senior Show Reception
- Exhibition

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 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

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Design
A&D Visitor's Series: Zackery Belanger, "Acoustic Ornament"
- 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
- 5:30 pm
- 312 A&D
MFA Studio Critic Lecture — Nnenna Okore: "Art as Experience"
- Lecture

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 9:00 am
- KAM+ South Studios 5
MFA Studio Critiques w/ guest critic: Nnenna Okore
- Other
- 9:30 am - 1:30 pm
- 224 Art & Design Bldg.
Zero-Waste Fashion Workshop: Design in CLO
- Conference/Workshop
- 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

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 9:00 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Rehearsal Room
ARTS 446 Class Performance
- Performance

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 331 A&D
Graphic Design Critic Lecture: Sadie Red Wing
- Lecture

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Booth 143, Chicago Artist Coalition Gallery | EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier
Nekita Thomas, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation, will be showcasing new work at EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier.
- Exhibition
- 5:30 pm
- 312 A&D
MFA Studio Critic Lecture — Deb Sokolow: "Schematics and Speculation"
- Lecture
- 9:00 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Rehearsal Room
ARTS 446 Class Performance
- Performance

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Booth 143, Chicago Artist Coalition Gallery | EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier
Nekita Thomas, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation, will be showcasing new work at EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier.
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am
- KAM+ South Studios 5
MFA Studio Critiques w/ guest critic: Deb Sokolow
- Other
- 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
- SCD shop
Zero-Waste Fashion Workshop: Print, cut and sew
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, April 26, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Booth 143, Chicago Artist Coalition Gallery | EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier
Nekita Thomas, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation, will be showcasing new work at EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier.
- Exhibition

Sunday, April 27, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Booth 143, Chicago Artist Coalition Gallery | EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier
Nekita Thomas, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Design for Responsible Innovation, will be showcasing new work at EXPO Chicago at Navy Pier.
- Exhibition

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- 312 A&D
MFA Studio Critic Lecture — Salvador Jiménez-Flores: "Je´shenda daji ntha da thina / Yo y toda la estructura que me sostiene"
- Lecture

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 am
- South Studios 5
MFA Studio Critiques w/ guest critic: Salvador Jiménez-Flores
- Other
- 6:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Rehearsal Room
ARTS 446 Class Performance
- Performance

Saturday, May 3, 2025

- 9:00 am
- 331 A&D
Industrial Design Graduate Critiques with Dr. Lorraine Justice
- Other