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This Week's Arts Events

Nov. 7, 2009

Downtown Champaign in Vivid Color  -  Old Vic Art Gallery - Saturday, Nov. 7 at 10:00 am

Japan House Annual Open House  -  Japan House - Saturday, Nov. 7 at 10:00 am

Nov. 11, 2009

McDonnell and Naragon  -  Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 10:00 am

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Ongoing Exhibits, Art & Museum Collections

Museum of Mystery: A Twenty-five Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies
Parkland Art Gallery - 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign
Museum of Mystery: A Twenty-five Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies Reception: Thursday, October 15, 6-8 p.m.; Gallery Talk at 7 p.m., and music by The Parkland College Guitar Ensemble. Davies is a native of Champaign and is an accomplished artist ...Read More

My Perspective of Busey Woods
Anita Purves Nature Center - 1505 N. Broadway Ave., Urbana
A Photography Show by Cheri Manrique. An exhibit of all things Busey Woods including the changing seasons and native plants. Manrique is a photographer from Urbana. For more information:Call (217) 384-4062
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Effacement
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition features both photographs and porcelain works produced by the contemporary Chinese artist Huang Yan (b. 1966). Through these works, Huang examines the transnational art market and the perception of "Chineseness" in this environment. Huang's engagement with ...Read More

Gestures in Space and Light
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition features the works of seven prominent American photographers selected from the museums extensive collection. All but two of the photographers represented were trained or taught at The New Bauhaus School of Design (descendant of the German Bauhaus design ...Read More

Springer Cultural Center
Springer Cultural Center - 301 N. Randolph St., Champaign
Built in 1904, originally as a U.S. post office, the Springer Cultural Center, after extensive remodeling and upgrades to the interior, has evolved as one of Champaign Park District’s main facilities. Located in the center of downtown Champaign, the Springer Cultural ...Read More

On-Screen: Global Intimacy
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition brings together ten artists from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States whose works investigate the transnational reach of globalization as a universalizing phenomenon. Their cultural outreach extends beyond the limitations of physical boundaries ...Read More

Vivid Lines in Graphic Times
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This selection of paintings and works on paper from the museums permanent collection explores how a diverse range of American artists engaged Pop Art elements—vibrant color, readymade images, graphic line—yet moved beyond the movement's boundaries in form, material, ...Read More

Under Control
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition presents recent art that highlights the increasingly pervasive concern with the issue of control. Corporate malfeasance, government-sponsored spying, preemptive war, challenges to civil liberties, and misinformation in the media provide an endless stream ...Read More

Gestures in Space and Light
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition features the works of seven prominent American photographers selected from the museums extensive collection. All but two of the photographers represented were trained or taught at The New Bauhaus School of Design (descendent of the German Bauhaus design ...Read More

Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies
Parkland Art Gallery - 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign
Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-Year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies Monday, October 5 - November 17, 2009 Reception: Thursday, October 15, 6-8 p.m.; Gallery Talk: Glen Davies at 7 p.m., Music by The Parkland College Guitar Ensemble Additional Artist Lecture: ...Read More

William M. Staerkel Planetarium
William M. Staerkel Planetarium - 2400 West Bradley Ave., Champaign
The William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College has been thrilling Champaign residents with its light shows for more than 20 years. The planetarium primarily presents educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky. The Staerkel Planetarium, ...Read More

Gestures in Space and Light
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition features the works of seven prominent American photographers selected from the museum’s extensive collection. All but two of the photographers represented were trained or taught at The New Bauhaus School of Design (descendent of the German Bauhaus design ...Read More

Effacement: Huang Yan’s China in the 21st Century
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition features both photographs and porcelain works produced by the contemporary Chinese artist Huang Yan (b. 1966). Through these works, Huang examines the transnational art market and the perception of “Chineseness” in this environment. Huang’s engagement ...Read More

Vivid Lines in Graphic Times
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This selection of paintings and works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection explores how a diverse range of American artists engaged Pop Art elements—vibrant color, readymade images, graphic line—yet moved beyond the movement’s boundaries in form, material, ...Read More

Under Control
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion - 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign
This exhibition presents recent art that highlights the increasingly pervasive concern with the issue of control. Corporate malfeasance, government-sponsored spying, preemptive war, challenges to civil liberties, and misinformation in the media provide an endless stream ...Read More

Unsettled Gesture
Cinema Gallery - 120 W. Main St., Urbana
Steven Hudson presents a new show of figurative paintings and drawings that posit a melancholic and romanticized view of an uncertain cataclysm. For more information call 367-3711, or visit http://www.cinemagallery.cc

Masks & Skeletons
Kalarte Gallery - 112 W. Main St., Urbana
Kalarte Gallery presents an exhibition: "Masks & Skeletons." The exhibition includes masks from Mexico, Guatemala, Africa, India, and Indonesia; and Day of the Dead figures from Mexico. The exhibition runs from Saturday, Oct. 10 through Nov. 14. Regular hours are Wednesday ...Read More

Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time
Main Library - 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, and was listed in his high school yearbook as heading to the University of Illinois after graduation. Instead, Hemingway obtained a junior position at the Kansas City Star, beginning a writing career that would ...Read More

University of Illinois Pollinatarium
Arboretum - Lincoln Avenue & Florida Avenue, Urbana
The University of Illinois Pollinatarium is the first free-standing science center in the nation devoted to flowering plants and their pollinators. Exhibits on beekeeping equipment, demonstration hive with live bees, interactive games, birdwing butterflies. Displays on ...Read More

Orpheum Children’s Science Museum
Orpheum Children's Science Museum - 346 N. Neil St., Champaign
Orpheum Children’s Science Museum gives children a chance to explore their curiosities through informal science education. Serving children 6 months to 12 years old, the museum includes large interactive ...Read More