More neat stuff to do

Wednesday, October 8
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
4:00 pm

"The Old New Media of Comics Art: Comics and Graphic Novels in the 21st Century"

Talk by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, curators of the upcoming KAM exhibition Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics

Jazz concerts, film, open mic: oh my!

What's upcoming at Krannert Art Museum...


Thursday, October 2
Tea ceremonies conducted by Kimiko Gunji, director of Japan House, in conjunction with the Kyoko Ibe exhibit
Krannert Art Museum, 5:30-6:30 pm

A Taste of Art Lecture Series
Collecting Art, Locally and Internationally, Ian Wang, associate curator, Spurlock Museum
KAM Auditorium, 6:00 pm

Sudden Sound Concert
MIYUMI Trio, featuring Tatsu Aoki and Hide Yoshihasi: Chicago-based musicians performing unique blends of traditional Japanese music/taiko (drumming), jazz, and improvisation
Contemporary Gallery, 7:30 pm

VOICE MFA student reading
featuring Lillian Bertram, Arley McNeney, Micah Riecker
Link Gallery, 7:30 pm


Saturday, October 4
Kids@Krannert family festival
Krannert Art Museum, 10:00 am-12:00 pm


Thursday, October 9
Dance performance by contact improvisation dancer and assistant professor of Dance Kirstie Simson
Krannert Art Museum, 5:30-6:30 pm

IPRH Film Series
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991), Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, directors
KAM Auditorium, 5:30 pm

SPEAK Cafe
Open-mic for hip-hop and Black Power expression
Palette Cafe, 7:00-9:00 pm


All events @ Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL. FREE and open to the public.

Find out more by visiting KAM's website, signing up for e-news (email kam@illinois.edu), or by joining the museum's facebook group.

VOICE Begins

The first VOICE reading of the semester is on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Time: 7:30 pm.
Location: Krannert Museum of Art - Link Gallery

Featured Readers:

Lillian Bertram
Arley McNeney
Micah Riecker


This event is free and open to the public.

Philip Graham Interviews David Jauss

Check out Philip Graham's interview with author David Jauss on UI's NPR affiliate station WILL. Jauss was visiting our campus as part of our Carr Reading Series and gave a wonderful reading of his fiction later in the day.