Aditi Khandelwal, a junior studying Graphic Design and Information Sciences, attends the SPEAK Café and reflects on her experience. SPEAK Café is an open mic space filled with song, poetry, art, and open expression. Hosted by local artist Shaya Robinson, the open-mic event takes place within the Rest Lab 8: Greenspace exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum.
To read more about the Speak Cafe experience, read the article in the Illinois News Bureau: A place for artistic expression at SPEAK Café.
At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ten faculty members were selected to serve as fellows for the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Among them is Jorge Lucero, who has been honored with a fellowship in the Academic Leadership Program.
The Krannert Art Museum presents “Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800,” an exhibition of over 100 rare early modern European prints loaned from private collections. It showcases how prints became Europe’s first visual mass media, profoundly influencing politics, religion, knowledge, and artistic identity. Curated by Maureen Warren, the show highlights masterpieces by Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya, and others, exploring themes like creativity, religious imagery, daily life, gender, and sexuality. The exhibition runs from September 25 through February 28 and is paired with a symposium on gender and sexuality in premodern prints.
University of Illinois printmaker and art professor Emmy Lingscheit uses her work to investigate human-environment relationships, deep time, and the overlap between ecological and social justice. Her exhibition Contingencies: Navigating a World of Accelerating Change (on view until October 3 at the University YMCA) features lithographs, comics, and zines exploring climate change, migration, extinction, and mutual care among species. Highlights include Timepiece - depicting icebergs and oil tankers to trace historical impact, and works like Boil reworking Hokusai’s wave to confront industrial damage. Her Queer Reproduction series weaves personal experience into depictions of diverse reproductive strategies in nature, challenging normative views.
Two students from the Fine and Applied College have been appointed to Illinois Homecoming Court. Andres Vazquez is pursuing a degree in Urban Studies and Planning with a minor in Environmental Economics and Law. Jasmin Aquino is studying Studio Art with a concentration in Fashion, in the College of Fine and Applied Arts.
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