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Whether you are a high school student, college student, working professional, or retiree, we invite you to engage with Butler’s award-winning novel Parable of the Sower through our Community Read this season!

Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment.

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans.

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans.

Staying on campus during break? Looking for places to connect with other fellow students with arts and crafts, cooking and snacking, playing games and celebrating holidays?  You can find it all here in your home away from home. 

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans.

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans.

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career spanning exhibition and publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works from the artist’s archive that have rarely been exhibited alongside significant institutional and private loans.

Staying on campus during break? Looking for places to connect with other fellow students with arts and crafts, cooking and snacking, playing games and celebrating holidays?  You can find it all here in your home away from home. 

If you or a loved one is living with Parkinson’s, join us to explore gentle movement in a safe and welcoming virtual environment.

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is pleased to announce free Saturday workshops with our community samba group Bloco Gavião, developed in collaboration with Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande-Illinois.

Join local C-U trivia host Julie Laut for a night of fun and challenging online trivia in conjunction with the Spurlock Museum’s temporary exhibit Blues Dancing and Its African American Roots. Laut (CU Lockdown Trivia) will lead four rounds of trivia. Test your knowledge and spark some joy with this great community event!

The Spurlock Book Club will be hosting a virtual discussion of Part 2 of the play Angels in America, "Perestroika" on 1/18 at 7:30pm. One of the most honored plays of all time, Angels in America has won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous Tony Awards. It was recently revived on Broadway in 2018 to rave reviews.

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is pleased to announce free Saturday workshops with our community samba group Bloco Gavião, developed in collaboration with Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande-Illinois.

In Search of Lost Time: The study of Earth history and chronology from the 18th to the 21st century — RBML's Spring Exhibition in collaboration with the Department of Geology, on view from 1/24 - 6/22, 2022. This exhibit explores concepts of time, chronology, and history that form the lens through which Earth scientists view, understand, and interpret a dynamic planet.

Visit this link for updates on the 2022-2023 internship recruitment cycle! 

Join us for a public opening of our new exhibit 'Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois.' The event will feature two parts. From 1-3:30, participants will contribute to a community art project by making a commemorative panel for someone lost to illness. At 2pm, participants can preview some of the oral history videos created by students.

Celebrate a new season at Krannert Art Museum during Spring 2022 Opening Days. Come to the museum to see favorite galleries and new special exhibitions, including Sacred Supernatural: Religion, Myth, and Magic in European Prints, 1450-1900 and To Know the Fire: Pueblo Women Potters and the Shaping of History.

In this talk, Lex Lancaster will discuss their book, Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art (forthcoming from Duke University Press in Fall 2022), highlighting how contemporary queer tactics of abstraction drag on difficult visual forms and histories of modernism.

Faculty and Graduate Students are welcome to join in a workshop with scholar, curator, and author Lex Lancaster to discuss “Abstract Tactics: Queer, Black, and Trans Approaches to the Problem of Visibility.”

Join us for informal conversation with Lex Lancaster about their scholarly interests and career as an art historian, author, and curator.

Each team needs a name, 1 captain, and up to 5 other players. Team members do not need to be located in the C-U area—feel free to bring together friends and family from across the country to join in the trivial fun. Sign up by 9:00 am the day of the game, and a Zoom invite to the event will be sent by noon that day. Email julie@culockdowntrivia.org.

On January 29, from 1:00-3:30 PM, the Museum’s monthly Spurlock Sunday program will feature a variety of word, picture, and 3-D construction puzzles for visitors to try, many based on the Museum’s artifacts. Build your own temple, assemble jigsaw puzzles featuring multicultural designs, or join in on a friendly game of Boggle. Relax and spend the afternoon playing.

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is pleased to announce free Saturday workshops with our community samba group Bloco Gavião, developed in collaboration with Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande-Illinois.

This professional chamber orchestra comprises University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students, as well as distinguished local freelance and regional/national musicians.

Join us for a public opening of our new exhibit 'Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois.' The event will feature two parts. From 1-3:30, participants will contribute to a community art project by making a commemorative panel for someone lost to illness. At 2pm, participants can preview some of the oral history videos created by students.

Cano Smit has shared the stage with numerous symphony orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the American Youth Symphony and the Montreal Symphony, and has given recitals at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, at Germany’s Rheingau Music Festival, and throughout Spain.