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Saturday Art School begins February 11

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:00:00 CST

The School of Art + Design's Saturday Art School program for children is accepting registrations until Friday, February 3 for the spring 2012 Saturday School program. Students aged 4 years, 6 months through high school ages are welcome.

This spring there will be classes for six age groups: Pre-K/Kindergarten, Grade 1-2, Grade 3-4, Grades 5-6, Grades 7-8, and High School (Grades 9-12). For details, we encourage you to download our brochure and registration form.

Alumnus wins 2011 Efroymson Fellowship

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:00:00 CST

Art + Design alumnus David Rowe (BFA Ceramics) has won a $20,000 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. David is currently a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University. The Efroymson fellowship provides unrestricted funding for award-winners to further their artistic careers.

Fehl Lecture | Visitors Series

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:00:00 CST

Timothy Wilson to give Fehl Lecture

Art Historian Timothy Wilson will give the Fehl lecture on Italian Maiolica and the Renaissance Origins of the Distinction Between Fine and Applied Art, at 5:30 P.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.

Collaboration and Public Interactions | Intervention Lecture Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Olivia Robinson to speak Thurs., Oct. 6

Olivia Robinson is a Professor of Studio Art in the Fiber Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a multimedia fiber artist whose work spans performance, installation, research, and community engagement. Robinson’s diverse body of work, which ranges in scale from hand-built textile circuits to architectural-scale inflatable structures, investigates issues of justice, identity, community, and transformation.

Her lecture will be 5:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in 107 Art and Design Building, 408 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.

Cumbrian Blue(s)Landscape, Pattern, and Promiscuity | Intervention Lecture Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Paul Scott to speak Thurs., Sept. 29

Paul Scott is an artist, writer, and curator. A member of the International Academy of Ceramics, he is currently Senior Research Fellow in Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The power of Scott’s work is in the accuracy of his alterations; it lies in his truth telling. His work holds the power to make us uncomfortable. He poses questions about our complacency over the loss of industrial skills and the economic and social consequences for those who were engaged in production. Scott challenges the ideas of “wild and natural landscapes” and focuses our ill-considered interventions and our exploitations (Andy Christian, Ceramic Review, July/August 2010).

His lecture will be 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.

Notes on the Emptying of a City | Intervention Lecture Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Ashley Hunt to speak Wed., Oct. 26

Ashley Hunt's Notes on the Emptying of a City is a performance that acts as a dismantled film, where a live narrator pieces together the sounds, images, and storytelling of a documentary before a live audience. <br>

His performance will be 5:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.

Paul Andrew Wandless | Visitors Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Ceramics Demonstration Mon., Oct. 17

Ceramic artist Paul Andrew Wandless will give a ceramics demonstration 5:30-9:30 p.m. in South Studio 4, Ceramics Building, in the Research Park, Champaign.

Sam Green | Visitors Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Sam Green to speak Mon., Oct. 10

In his current project, Utopia In Four Movements, a “live documentary,” Documentary filmmaker Sam Green sifts through the history of the utopian impulse, searching for insights about the way to build a vision of the future based on humankind’s noblest impulses.

His lecture will be 5:30 p.m. in 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.

Susanne Matsche | Visitors Series

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Laces in Layers Thurs., Oct. 20

Metals artist Susanne Matsché will speak Thurs., Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. in 221 Art East Annex Studio One.

Design. Build. Transform | Emily Pilloton | Intervention Lecture Series

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:00:00 CDT

Emily Pilloton to speak Mon., Sept. 26

Emily is founder of Project H, which uses design to empower communities and public education. Trained in architecture (University of California-Berkeley) and product design (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Emily believes in design as an honest process of building and activism for community benefit and more engaged public education experiences. Most days she resides in the Studio H classroom/shop with her high school students in Bertie County, North Carolina, where she designs and builds community architectural projects with her students. A California girl, runner, border collie lover, and unwavering optimist, she has appeared on the TED stage and the Colbert Report, and authored the book Design Revolution.

As a designer and builder disguised as a high school teacher, Emily will present the story of Studio H, an innovative program in the poorest county in North Carolina. In Bertie County, where Emily and her partner Matthew Miller live and teach, high school students have an opportunity to design and build the future of their own community, learning within an experimental, hands-on "shop class with purpose" environment in which solutions are developed for community benefit. Emily will share the model by which design, and more importantly, full-scale architectural execution, can bring hope and progress to both public education and rural communities in need of a new vision of the future.

Ms. Pilloton's lecture will be at 5:30 p.m. in 62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign.