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Congratulations to the entire company of Illinois Theatre`s Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory on a beautiful sold-out production!
Production Credits are available to view at the link in our bio 🔗!
@illinoistheatre @krannertcenter
Phots by Darrell Hoemann
Last Saturday Japan House celebrated their Spring Open House! 🌸
In welcoming the new season, Japan House hosted John Powell, sharing his design for the Japanese gardens for the Ogura-Sato Annex. Traditional Japanese tea ceremonies were also offered hourly by the Chado Urasenke Tankokai Urbana-Champaign Association. Enjoy these lovely memories!
📷 Photos by Humza Qazi
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#ThrowbackThursday to TAKEOVER 2026! ⏮️ ⚡
TAKEOVER is an annual experimental art showcase where all School of Art and Design at Illinois majors displayed their pieces all over the Art and Design Building as well as the Link Gallery. Congrats to all the exhibiting artists this year!
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On view @kamillinois TODAY!
The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition features the work of eight Graduate Students in studio art and industrial design. The exhibition opened April 11 and will run through April 25.
Featuring work by:
-Jose Cabada
- Oriana Crutcher
- Grey Dey
- Samantha Jones
- Justin Kim
- Anthony Obayomi
- Fengzhuo Shao
- Emily Tomlinson
To learn more about the featured artists and their work click the link in our bio! 🔗
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Congratulations to the cast and crew of Lyric Theatre`s stunning production of "Little Women" by Mark Adamo, after the novel by Louisa May Alcott!
@lyrictheatreillinois @krannertcenter @illinoismusic
Stage Director: Dawn Harris
Music Director: Casey Robards
Vocal Coach/Dramaturg: Julie Gunn
Scenic Designer: Fallon Podrazik
Costume Designer: Nicholas Dudit Pardo
Lighting Designer: Jasmyn Oliveros
Sound Designer: Madeline Carroll
Media Designer: Ethan Borrock
Properties Manager: Josh Doniek
Technical Director: Matt Grenier
Stage Manager: Anna Compton
Assistant Stage Managers: Sarah Lenehan, Roan Milkie
Production Assistant: Odeide Gaul
CAST
Jo - Cade McHugh
Meg - Ellyn Werner
Amy - Sasha Van Den Berg
Beth - Julia Scannell
Laurie - Christopher Commiso
John Brooke - Evan Raymond
Friedrich Bhaer - Leo Mondschain
Alma March - Jana Dinkeloo
Gideon March - Hunter Merriman
Cecilia March - Yuzhen Jin
Dashwood - Chris Pettersen
Spirit 1 (Amy Cover) - Yoo Jin Jung
Spirit 2 (Beth Cover) - Cyanne Chan
Spirit 3 (Meg Cover) - Sophia Katsma
Spirit 4 - Z. Ball
Photography by Darrell Hoemann
Place, Performance, and Power: Hip-Hop Dance in Everyday Spaces 🕺
Serouj Aprahamian (Dance) is a 2025–2026 HRI Faculty Fellow. His current research project, “‘Showtime!’: Dancing in the New York City UnderGround,” investigates community-based hip-hop dance forms in everyday spaces, including the New York City subway, and the complex relationships between place, performance, and power.
Learn more about Serouj`s research at the link in our bio 🔗!
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The 7th Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove, will be here for National Poetry Month! ✨
@hriatillinois is hosting a poetry reading and book signing on April 15 at 7:30pm at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. 🎤📖🖋️
You can also have lunch with Rita on April 15 at 12:00pm at The Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at "Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Rita Dove" @bnaacc_illinois
🔗Learn more about these events: go.illinois.edu/ritadovereading
Rita Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, she also received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Other recent honors are the 2021 Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where she currently serves as vice president for literature, a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and both the 2019 Wallace Stevens Award and the 2024 Leadership Award from the Academy of American Poets. Rita Dove teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
‼️Attention Graduating Seniors‼️
You`re invited to the College of Fine and Applied Arts Senior Celebration! Join us for food, giveaways, toasts, music and more!
📅 May 5
⏰ 6-8pm
📍Papa Del`s Pizza Factory
RSVP Today ➡ Link in Bio 🔗!
BSSD
🌱 Today we are highlighting Lea Huang-Yanez`s research for a Solar Powered Materials Catalog for Ricker Library project, another student project supported by a Fall 2025 BSSD Opportunity Scholarship!
BSSD: Tell us about your project and the progress you`ve made thus far.
🌱 LHY: “My project is a solar powered website designed to promote the Materials Collection at the Ricker Library for Architecture and Art. I created a proposal for a building intervention to mount a solar panel and connect it to a server, I designed the website`s UI and am programming it, and starting to build the server itself with a Rasberry PI.”
BSSD: How has the Scholarship supported your development?
🌱 Today, we are highlighting Lea Huang-Yanez`s research for a Solar Powered Materials Catalog for the Ricker Library project, another student project supported by a Fall 2025 BSSD Opportunity Scholarship!hip!solar panel and connect it to a server, I designed the website`s UI and am programming it, and starting to build the server itself with a Rasberry PI.”
BSSD: What are your future goals or plans for the project?
🌱 LHY: “I hope to continue to be in contact with the Library to ensure that I can implement my physical intervention. I also hope to complete the programming aspect of my website so that I can have a working resource.”
Congrats, Lea! We`re excited to see the project move forward!
Seed bomb making with local wildflowers!
Did you catch this recent event with BSSD`s Student Advisory Committee? Thank you to our student organizers and hosts for a very fun evening!
🌎 BSSD students check out what`s happening during Earth Month!
📖 April 6- 23 | Fall 2026 Course registration period. View suggested BSSD courses in the link in bio.
⚙️April 16-17 | UX Days 2026: Systems in FLUX | Siebel Center for Design
This year’s UX Days explores how designers work within, against, and beyond the systems that shape our world — from institutional and technological frameworks to cultural and ethical ones. Together, we’ll ask: What do we keep, what do we break, and what must we rebuild to create more equitable, adaptive, and human futures? Through keynotes, workshops, and conversations, UX Days 2026 bridges the visionary and the practical, inviting students, educators, and professionals to explore how design can remain human-centered in an age of systemic change. Register online at the SCD website
📅 April 17 | Deadline to drop POT B (2nd 8-week class) via Self-Service
🌱 April 18 | Sustainapalooza on the Quad | 1:00-6:00pm
Join the Green Leadership Council`s annual Earth Celebration with tabling, crafts, vendors, food (with compostable dishware), clothing swap, live music, and more!
♻️April 22 | Earth Day on the Quad | 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m
Join Earth Day festivities on the Quad! Interactive activities include:
-Seed Bomb Making (iSEE)
-“What’s in Our Recycling Bin?” activity
-Spin-the-Wheel sustainability trivia
-Make-Your-Own T-Shirt Bag station
-Musical Instruments of Nature (live & streamed sound experience)
-SESE & iSEE information tables
-SESE RSO Display
Join the Illinois Student Council and SECS for a behind-the-scenes tour of UIUC energy. Friday, April 10, 1:30 pm at 1117 S. Oak St. in Champaign
@secsuiuc @illinoisstudentcouncil
🌱 Today we are highlighting Faye Wettstein`s Research with Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, another student accomplishment supported by a Fall 2025 BSSD Opportunity Scholarship!
BSSD: Tell us about your project and the progress you`ve made thus far.
🌱 FW: “I was working on mangrove blue carbon ecosystem research with STRI in Panama City. This involved above and below ground biomass measurements, root collection and washing, and GIS work...learned interesting things about environmental field work, root washing and collection, and an introduction to the GIS work, surveying canopy change in urban mangroves.”
BSSD: How has the Scholarship supported your development?
🌱 FW: “This scholarship has supported my professional development by allowing me to pursue a very unique opportunity, and supporting the cost of flights and housing for this experience. I got to learn more about Panama City, and understand the ecological conservation work that is being done by STRI scientists. Conversations with my fellow lab members were valuable, and I appreciated understanding the projects that they were undertaking.”
BSSD: What are your future goals or plans for the project?
🌱 FW: “I hope that in the future I can return to the STRI lab, but in the meantime I believe that I can integrate some of the knowledge I gained into my own projects. I`m undertaking an independent study on green development, and I believe that the field experience and ecological measurement skills I gained will be useful.”
Congrats, Faye!
🌼 The BSSD Student Advisory Committee invites you to Making Seed Bombs!
🌸 All Students are welcome to join BSSD on Wednesday, April 8th, to make Seed Bombs, which can be used to plant wildflowers.
🎉 Congratulations to our BSSD Spring 2026 Opportunity Scholarship awardees Anna Hruska, Kylee Jansen, Aarushi Kaul, Elise Koch, Julia Konrath, and Lauren Wright!!
Interested in a short-term study abroad opportunity this fall? Join the *April 8* info session for UP 491 Urban Sustainability in Vienna, 5:00 pm, TBH 227
