After four months studying abroad at Lorenzo de' Medici Institute in Florence, FAA student Aditi Khandelwal reflects on a semester that went far beyond the classroom. From exploring the world of art crime and cultural heritage to finding calm through ceramics, learning conversational Italian, and discovering the city through free weekly activities and field trips across Italy, the LdM experience proved to be as personally enriching as it was academically diverse.
Art and Design
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NewsArt Education graduate student, Simmi Wallace, is launching beginner-friendly art classes in Champaign-Urbana focused on animation, claymation, and puppetry. The classes aim to give community members of all ages a creative outlet while building confidence and artistic skills.
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NewsFaculty members Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones co-edit the latest issue of VoCA Journal, deaf…*, which examines communication and access in art today.
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NewsEleven University of Illinois faculty artists explore how stories shape people and place in Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie, on view at Krannert Art Museum through July 2.
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NewsProfessor Chiara Vincenzi is transforming fashion design education at the University of Illinois by blending traditional textile practices with digital tools like virtual reality and 3D fabrication. In a new interview and mini-documentary, she shares how this approach helps students design more creatively, sustainably, and with an eye toward the future of the fashion industry.
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NewsArt & Design professors, Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Robert Jones, are newly name 2026 Creative Capital Awardees. Celebrating 25 years of national artist support, Creative Capital has provided $55 million in grants and services to 1,119 visionary artists across the entire American landscape. Read the full press release.
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NewsArt & Design professor Catalina Alzate is an affiliate with the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI). IHSI recently spotlit Alzate in an article featuring her community-engaged research and work with students.
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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.
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NewsDimension 2025, the College of Fine and Applied Arts' annual magazine, was released this month and mailed out to over 37,000 college alumni and friends.
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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.
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NewsIn honor of National Arts & Humanities Month, we’re featuring Chiara Vincenzi, professor of Fashion in the School of Art & Design. Drawing on her background in the Italian fashion industry, Vincenzi’s work blends traditional craft, digital innovation, and sustainable design. In this Q&A, she shares how her passion for textiles began, the inspirations behind her weaving and teaching practice, and how she’s helping students connect creativity with care, responsibility, and global perspective.
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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.
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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.
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NewsFive University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including Art & Design professor Ben Grosser, have been honored as University Scholars for their achievements in teaching, research, and service.
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NewsThe College of Fine and Applied Arts is home to 580 graduate students pursuing master and doctoral degrees in the arts. We are honored to have them here learning, teaching, researching, AND building, dancing, and making among us. Happy Graduate Student Appreciation Week!
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NewsThe Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has awarded its annual Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships to seven faculty members and seven graduate students from the campus for the 2025–26 academic year, including two faculty members from FAA and one graduate student.
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NewsAditi Khandelwal, an Art student at the University of Illinois, shares her experience from the opening night of Krannert Art Museum’s latest exhibition, “Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture.” As she explores the exhibition, she reflects on the intersection of art, architecture, dance and music - highlighting the holistic approach of The College of Fine and Applied Arts- and how she felt a sense of community and representation as an artist. "As an art student, I feel an undeniable sense of connection to the community this exhibition created. The exhibition is a space where people from all backgrounds and all artistic disciplines come together, proving that art is not just something we create, but something we share." Read more in The Illinois News Bureau
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NewsThe Krannert Art Museum is currently featuring an exhibition that showcases the woven artworks of Dot Replinger. Replinger's pieces are known for their intricate patterns and vibrant colors, reflecting her deep engagement with textile art. The exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to explore the depth and creativity of Replinger's woven works, highlighting her contributions to contemporary art. A recent article written by Krannert Art Museum Director, Jon Seydl, explores Replinger's work more thoroughly: "Her monumental weavings stand among the most significant sculptural textiles from the mid- to late 20th century in the U.S., and her custom clothing remains widespread in our community." Read More in The News Gazette "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" is on view through July 12, 2025. Part of the exhibition is available online at kam.illinois.edu/midcentury. View architectural sketches and detailed plans, historical photographs of area homes and studios, plus beautiful reproductions of 150 pages from Dot Replinger’s sketchbooks. Krannert Art Museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Thursday until 8 p.m., when classes are in session.
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NewsThe Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) announced the awarded projects for their 2025 Summer Community-Academic Scholars Program. Three projects will be led by FAA staff and faculty.
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NewsDimension 2024, the College of Fine and Applied Arts' annual magazine, was released this month and mailed out to over 37,000 college alumni and friends.