Exhibits

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AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC.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.

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.

These presentations are part of a virtual series hosted by the Friends of the Library and initiated by the Library Board of Advocates to share the wonders of the University Library at 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.

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.