Beginning Aug. 28, The Krannert Art Museum, in association with the School of Art + Design, will host art that will “provide the community with the opportunity to view the work by the school’s world-class artists and designers,” according to KAM’s website. Also starting in August and running through Jan. 3, KAM will host the following exhibitions: “On Screen: Global Intimacy,” “Gesture in Space and Light,” “Effacement: Huang Yan’s China in the 21st Century,” “Vivid Times in Graphic Times,” “The Morrill Act: The Land Grant Roots of a Great University (Oct. 1-31),” and “Under Control (Oct. 23).”

“On Screen: Global Intimacy” brings together artists from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the U.S. including Tiong Ang, Alex Hérnandez-Dueñas, Andrew Dosunmu, Achillekà Komguem, Donna Kukama, and Keith and Mendi Obadike. Through abstract, narrative films, these artists explore globalism, allowing viewers to question perceived definitions of community, placehood and well-being.

“Gestures in Space and Light” continues this dialogue through film of another sort: photography. KAM will showcase seven American photographers, including Aaron Siskind, Brett Weston, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lerner and Joseph Jachna. Though individually famous, together, these artists exemplify an “era of experimentation.” Through exploring the basics of photography, and the purpose of a photo — something that captures a moment in time — these photographs work to convey how photos are paradoxes of their conceived function.

Also a photographer, Huang Yan moves us from American art to Chinese. Yan has digitally manipulated and reproduced scenes from classical chinese landscapes on four whitened faces of “fugitives” in order to explore aspects of Euro-American modernist art. In addition, KAM will showcase Yan’s traditional white and blue and porcelain.

Only recently available to show outside Washington D.C, the Morill Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, will reside at KAM this fall. The Morrill Act is one of the most important documents in United States History. It allowed states to make higher education accessible to all through the establishment of land-grant colleges and universities.

Following the political trend, “Under Control” is made up of 30 pieces of varying art from around the world. This exhibition is aimed at following paper trails and conspiracy theories, asking questions such as: Who controls whom? Who controls what? Where does it leave the rest of us?