Art activities * Food trucks * CU Community Fab Lab * Immersive art installation
🎁 Welcome kit
🍿 Local food trucks
🎨 Hands-on artmaking
🎥 Immersive projection arts experience
📅 Tuesday, Aug 26, 12–3:30 pm
📍 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Calling all new and returning U of I students! Kick off the school year and celebrate Krannert Art Museun’s newest exhibitions at KAM Fest 2025. Visit Krannert Art Museum to receive a free welcome kit, sign up for a student membership, and experience an immersive projection arts experience with local artist Matt Harsh, alongside artmaking activities with the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab!
Light snacks provided. From 12–2 pm, food will be available for purchase at food trucks parked by the museum. Welcome kits will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
About artist Matt Harsh:
harshpro.com/our-story
About CU Community Fab Lab:
cucfablab.web.illinois.edu
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
FALL 2025 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
AUGUST
9 · In the Studio: Printmaking Workshop, 1-3 pm · For adults
26 · KAM Fest 2025, 12–3:30 pm · For U of I students
28 · Grand Reopening Celebration! 4–8 pm · Ribbon-cutting, mini tours, new exhibitions on view, and a performance by Peruvian Quechua rapper Liberato Kani · For everyone!
28 · Opening Day | New Exhibitions:
• Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s
• Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600
• Reinstallation of the Historical Europoean and American Collection
SEPTEMBER
5 · Panel Discussion with Partners in Peru | Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600, 2 pm · En español e ingles
6 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
11 · Artist Visit | Ronny Quevedo in Conversation with Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura, 5:30 pm
20 · In the Studio: Art Workshop for Adults, 1–3 pm
25 · Opening Day | Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1495–1800
OCTOBER
2 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
3 · MFA Dance Thesis Performance: Juli Brandano, 6 pm
4 · Kids at KAM: Artmaking and More! 10:30 am–12:30 pm
11 · Opening Day | Rest Lab 8: Greenspace
17 · Symposium | Envisioning Gender and Sexuality in Premodern European Prints, 9 am–4 pm
18 · Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location, 1–3 pm
23 · Visiting Artist Talk: Althea Murphy-Price, 5:30 pm
30 · Visiting Artist Talk: Bernard Williams, 5:30 pm
NOVEMBER
6 · Visiting Artist Talk: vanessa german, 5:30 pm
6 · SPEAK Café, 6 pm
22 · Artventures for Kids! 1–3 pm
DECEMBER
Dec 2–6 · Last Week on View | "Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s"
4 · Day With(out) Art: Film Screening and Discussion for World AIDS Day, 6:30 pm
11 · FAA Finals Fest, 1–3 pm · For U of I students
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For event updates:
kam.illinois.edu/events
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