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How can cities use green spaces to mitigate the effects of extreme heat on vulnerable residents?
Large parts of the country, particularly in the South, have been experiencing extreme heat waves recently, with the heat index well into triple digits. Fang Fang is a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign urban and regional planning professor who studies trees in urban environments and issues of landscape design and environmental justice. Her most recent research […]
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts announces performances for its 2023-24 season
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’ 2023-24 season will begin with the 10th year of ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival. The performances that follow will include women singer-songwriters; song and dance from Ghana; chamber music and symphony orchestras; a collaboration that combines art and science; and a Latin Grammy winner. And that’s just […]
New Latin American Ensemble diversifies musical offerings at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new ensemble is helping to diversify the repertoire of music that is performed by the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Latin American Ensemble plays a broad range of Latin American music from Mexico and throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The ensemble was started […]
Illinois performing arts programs taking the stage downtown
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Dance and Lyric Theatre students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will have a change of scenery when they perform for the first time at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign. The two programs usually stage performances at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, but they’ll move to the downtown venue for […]
Krannert Art Museum exhibition explores suibokuga and watercolor paintings by Shozo Sato
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A Krannert Art Museum exhibition features paintings by Shozo Sato, the founder of Japan House and an emeritus professor of theatre and of art at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, that explore landscapes of the United States, floral motifs and memories of postwar Japan. In examining 20th and 21st century work by […]
Krannert Art Museum exhibition examines how pattern helps make sense of the world
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Pattern can both direct our actions and help us interpret our experiences. A new exhibition at Krannert Art Museum, “Pattern and Process,” asks viewers to consider how artists use pattern to understand the world. “The exhibition includes a broad range of works by artists using pattern in very different ways, but I […]
Exhibition of art professor’s work examines human impulses, culture and the environment
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The mockup of an exaggeratedly feminine bedroom, with its pink walls and fuzzy pink comforter, appears to be a cozy space for a pre-teen girl. But a look inside the open drawer of the nightstand reveals a small diorama of a polluted brownfield site. And the monster under the bed is in […]
Why are so many tall and supertall buildings being built?
Tall, supertall (heights of 300 meters or 984 feet or taller) and even megatall (at least 600 meters or 1,968 feet) buildings are being added to city skylines around the world. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign architecture professor Abbas Aminmansour specializes in the design of steel and reinforced concrete structures and of tall buildings. He is […]
Four women choreographers to present at Studiodance 2023
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four women choreographers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dance department will present work at Studiodance 2023 examining toxic environments, biases and assumptions, new motherhood and the resilience of women. Studiodance 2023 is Jan. 26-28 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. A livestreamed performance of an invited dress rehearsal is available […]
Reinvented decorative arts gallery at Krannert Art Museum tells diverse stories
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Krannert Art Museum has completed a transformation of its Moore Gallery of Decorative Arts that highlights several new acquisitions and the diverse stories of art-making they tell, while examining histories of decorative arts collecting by museum donors and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The centerpiece of “Well-designed Beauty: Trade, Technology, and Decorative […]
Architecture professor’s book examines cultural tourism that began in Depression-era Mississippi
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Seeking to support their city’s economy during the Great Depression, the women of Natchez, Mississippi, developed one of the first cultural tourism sites in the U.S., centered around the city’s antebellum architecture. In doing so, they created an image of the Old South as grand mansions and gracious living. Paul Hardin Kapp, […]
Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, renowned sitar player Niladri Kumar performing at Krannert Center
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Zakir Hussain, known as the preeminent tabla musician currently playing the Indian hand drums, will perform with revolutionary sitar player Niladri Kumar at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. While the two esteemed musicians have played together many times, this is the first time they’ve toured as a duo. Hussain and Kumar […]