The School of Art and Design - Faculty Calendar

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  First Year Committee

  • Meeting
• • 12:00 pm
  • 331 A&D

  Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #4 Presentation

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 15 A&D

  Committee to Promote Anti-Racism, Inclusion, and Equity

  • Meeting
• • 12:00 pm
  • 331 A&D

  Graphic Design Assistant/Associate Professor Search Candidate #5 Presentation

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Executive Committee

  • Meeting

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
  • Send to Audra (audra@illinois.edu)

  Activity Reports Due

  • Other
• • 5:00 pm
  • School of Art & Design Building / Link Gallery

  TAKEOVER

  • Exhibition

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Recruitment Committee

  • Meeting

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Art Education Program

  • Meeting
• • 12:30 pm
  • 316 A&D

  Art History Program

  • Meeting
• • 12:30 pm
  • 312 A&D

  Yiqi Xiao, “Ways to Initiate Cross-Disciplinary Work, and Grow Through It”

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Committee on Outcomes & Assessment

  • Meeting
• • 12:00 pm
  • 216 Art & Design Bldg.

  Graphic Design Program

  • Meeting
• • 12:00 pm
  • 15 A&D

  Industrial Design Program

  • Meeting

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 340 A&D

  Bylaws and Policy & Procedures Committee

  • Meeting
• • 12:30 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Program Chairs

  • Meeting

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

• • 12:15 pm
  • 331 A&D

  Executive Committee: Shipley & Hughston/Enochs Presentations

  • Informational
• • 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

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Ad hoc Specialized Faculty Committee

  • Meeting

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 340 A&D

  (ad hoc) Facilities Committee

  • Meeting
• • 12:30 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Graduate Committee

  • Meeting
• • 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
• • 12:00 pm
  • 15 A&D

  Industrial Design Program

  • Meeting
• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Visitor's Committee

  • Meeting

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

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

Monday, April 28, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 133 A&D

  First Year Committee

  • Meeting

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 331 A&D

  Faculty/Staff Meeting

  • Meeting

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 216 Art & Design Bldg.

  Graphic Design Program

  • Meeting

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• • 12:30 pm
  • 133 A&D

  Executive Committee

  • Meeting
• • 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