Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

Art and design students exhibit their work at Krannert Art Museum

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Krannert Art Museum will exhibit the work of seniors in the School of Art and Design during the final week of the school year.

The School of Art and Design Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition opens Saturday, May 7, and continues through May 15. An opening reception will be held 5 to 7 p.m. May 7. The exhibition will include work from students in art education, art history, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, metals, new media, painting, photography and sculpture.

Katie Gamble, a senior who has a double major in new media and painting, made an audio podcast for the show. She is excited to have her work shown at Krannert Art Museum.

“We go to Krannert to see the real art,” she said of herself and her fellow art students. “This feels real. That’s why I put so much into this piece, so it is the absolute best of what I could do.”

An image from Daniel Harmon’s computer game, “Endangered Troop,” which will be part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibition at Krannert Art Museum.

Gamble’s podcast is titled “The Werewolf Is Like You and Me.” She interviewed a friend who was diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses as a child. In the podcast, the two talk about labels and finding yourself.

“She is a firm believer that there is no true you,” Gamble said of her friend. “There could be a lot of different versions of you. It’s about being true to who you want to be in that moment.”

Gamble said the conversation came out of her friend’s fears that being on medication for her illness would change who she was.

Museum visitors can sit and listen to the podcast – which runs 17 minutes, 44 seconds – on a tablet computer with headphones in the museum gallery.

The work of Jade Williams, a senior studying sculpture, references old visual merchandising, such as store window displays, as well as how black women are portrayed in the media and societal perceptions of them.

Williams has an installation in the BFA show titled “Hottenthots Live!” inspired by Hottentot Venus, a freak-show attraction in 19th-century Europe.

Williams tried to recreate that in her installation by using a mannequin and textile prints she designed.

“I use lots of color – hot pinks, yellow, red. It’s a very colorful and, in my opinion, fun piece, but it does have some darker undertones to it,” she said.

She likes sculpture because of “how experimental and explorative it is. It has given me the chance to play around with a lot of materials and combine things that you wouldn’t think of going together,” Williams said.

She is also excited about having her work at Krannert Art Museum.

“It’s a really well-known institution, so to be able to say I did a show there is pretty awesome,” Williams said.

Editor’s note: More information about the BFA show at Krannert Art Museum is available online.     

Read Next

Agriculture Graduate student Andrea Jimena Valdés-Alvarado, left, and food science professor Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia standing in the Edward R. Madigan Laboratory holding samples of the legume pulses they used in the study.

Fermenting legume pulses boosts their antidiabetic, antioxidant properties

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Food scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identified the optimal fermentation conditions for pulses ― the dried edible seeds of legumes ― that increased their antioxidant and antidiabetic properties and their soluble protein content. Using the bacteria Lactiplantibacillus plantarum 299v as the microorganism, the team fermented pulses obtained from varying concentrations […]

Expert viewpoints Ukraine’s daring drone attack deep within Russia is significant but not war-redefining, and may hinder U.S. efforts to end the war, says University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor and international relations expert Nicholas Grossman.

Does Ukraine drone attack inside Russia augur new era of asymmetric warfare?

Champaign, Ill. — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of “Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security” and specializes in international relations. Grossman spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about “Operation Spiderweb,” Ukraine’s expertly plotted drone attack inside the Russian mainland. […]

Behind the scenes Photo of a man with his leg lifted and his boot in the foreground, while another man in the foreground reacts.

Staging a fight

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A group of theatre students is gathered in a rehearsal room at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They are each paired with a partner, and I watch as they shove each other in the chest, knee one another in the gut and then punch their […]

Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

507 E. Green St
MC-426
Champaign, IL 61820

Email: stratcom@illinois.edu

Phone (217) 333-5010