The IPRH arts initiatives have included nearly 30 exhibitions of works by U of I faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates; local artists; and visiting nationally and internationally recognized artists. The IPRH has also organized numerous Curtain Call discussions following performances at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, gallery tours and conversations at the Krannert Art Museum, and performances by artists from the U of I and elsewhere.

ART EXHIBITS

2006-07
Forget What You Thought Was Beautiful (New Catalogue)
Conversations about Something (Andy Ducett, independent artist)
Melodramas of Consumption (Brian Ulrich, photographer, Chicago)
Symagery (Melissa Pokorny, Art and Design, U of I)


2005-06
Spectacles of the Real: Truth and Representation in Art and Literature
One initiative, two exhibits, three panels. . .This ambitious collaboration between the IPRH and OPENSOURCE art produced two simultaneous group exhibits of art by campus, local, and international artists, as well as panel discussions on Politics of the Real, Aesthetics of the Real, and Literatures of the Real. Panelists included U of I faculty from the arts and humanities, as well as visiting speakers Lawrence R. Rinder (California College of the Arts/Whitney Museum of American Art) and Hamza Walker (Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago).

I lloutuve wyou too: paintings and drawings (S.J. Hart, artist and co-director, OPENSOURCE art)
Belief, Wonders, and the Open Secrets of Nature (Janie Paul, Art and Design, University of Michigan)
Two Years in the Midwest (Kim Curtis, artist, Champaign-Urbana)
Dust Memories (Aaron Hughes, Art and Design, U of I)


2004-2005
Being Here
   As part of the three-day visit by Adam Pendleton (conceptual artist, New York), the IPRH hosted the  
   installation “Being Here,” including live webcasts on WILL-TV-AM/FM, class visits, and three panel
   discussions featuring Pendleton and U of I faculty members: Queer Art, Black Art, and Conceptual Art.

Virtual Works in Actual Space (Jonas Downey, Art and Design, U of I)
People in Motion (Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, Kinesiology, U of I)
Here Again (Teresa Gale, Art and Design U of I)
Invisible Infrastructure: Maps and Photographs (Christian Sandvig, Speech Communication, U of I and Hope Hall, 
   documentary photographer, New York)


2003-2004
Sangfroid, Glass 2003 (Damon MacNaught, Art and Design, U of I)
Ready Subjects (Sarah Kanouse, Art and Design, U of I)
Territorios/Territories: Mapuche Art and Identity (Eduardo Rapiman, independent Chilean Mapuche artist)
Untitled works (Daniel Ma, Art and Design, U of I)


2000-2001
Krannert Art Museum exhibition, “City Images: Selected Prints and Photographs of Twentieth Century American Urban Life” – artists included Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, Stow Wengenroth, Garry Winogrand; commentary provided by Christine Catanzarite and Michael Bérubé – in conjunction with the IPRH annual conference “Cities”

Selected work by faculty in the School of Art and Design, curated by Buzz Spector – artists included Buzz Spector, Barbara Kendrick, Bea Nettles

Selected works by Buzz Spector


1999-2000
Selections – works by MFA artists in the School of Art and Design, curated by Buzz Spector, Art and Design, U of I  
   – artists included Scott Anderson, Juliet Bedell, Sarah Daniel, Jill Daves, Michael Goro

Selections – works by faculty in the School of Art and Design, curated by Buzz Spector, Art and Design, U of I – artists included Ron Kovatch, Bea Nettles, Linda Robbenolt, and Dennis Rowan

Komar and Melamid – related works from the collection of Buzz Spector

CURTAIN CALL DISCUSSIONS – Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

2006-2007
Ferocious Beauty: Genome, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Super Vision, The Builders’ Association with dbox
The Spirit of Fés, Fés Festival of World Sacred Music
Blind Date, Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company


2005-2006
Ethel
Pacifica Quartet
Kronos Quartet


2004-2005
Welcome Home Charley Patton, Ralph Lemon (world premiere)
The End of the Moon, Laurie Anderson
systems/layers, SITI Company and Rachel’s
Alladeen, The Builder’s Association and motiroti

GALLERY CONVERSATIONS – Krannert Art Museum

2005-2006
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art – exhibit curator Michael Rush
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator – exhibit curator Judith Hoos Fox
Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne – Lawrence R. Rinder, California College of the Arts/Whitney Museum


2004-2005
Over + Over: Passion for Process – exhibition organizer Kathleen Harleman, Director, Krannert Art Museum
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography -- artist and exhibition organizer Walid Raad


2003-2004
Beyond East and West -- curator David O’Brien, Art History, U of I

PERFORMANCES AND OTHER EVENTS

2006-2007
A Really Big Deal (Deke Weaver, spoken word artist, Art and Design, U of I)


2005-06
From Tel Aviv to Ramallah
   This performance by actor and “human beatbox” Yuri Lane and video artist Sharif Ezzat, written and  
   directed by Rachel Havrelock, was performed at Allen Hall as a part of the trio’s residency at Unit One. The
   performance was followed by a discussion that was moderated by David McDonald (Musicology, U of I).
   The event was co-sponsored by the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the Program in South Asian
   and Middle Eastern Studies, with additional support from the Office of the Chancellor, Allen Hall/Unit
   One, and University High School.


2003-2004
Chocolate in Heat: Growing Up Arab in America – Betty Shamieh (playwright/performer) and Piter Fattouche
   (performer) – followed by a discussion with the artists


2000-2004
Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival
A production of the College of Communications; IPRH Associate Director Christine Catanzarite organized
   and chaired academic panel discussions at the festival from 2000 through 2004:
            2004 - “Looking Over the Past: Film, History, and Memory”
            2003 - “What a Glorious Feeling: The Rise, Fall, and (Maybe) Rise Again of the Musical Film”
            2002 - “Race and Gender Beyond Grand Canyon”
            2001 – “Lost in the Multiplex: The Overlooked Midsize Film”
            2000 - “Looking at Looking in Overlooked Films”


1999-2000
BIPED, Merce Cunningham Dance Company performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,
   and brown bag discussion on the integration of dance and advanced technologies with members of the
   production team – part of the IPRH conference “Institutions of the Visual”


1998-1999
Daughters of the Dust film screening and discussion with director Julie Dash – part of the IPRH/Ford
   Foundation conference “Identity and the Arts in Diaspora Communities”

Pure Chutney film screening and discussion with director Amitava Kumar – part of the IPRH conference
   “Culture, Place, and the Cultures of Displacement”

The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey film screening and discussion with director and performance artist
   Coco Fusco – part of the IPRH conference “Culture, Place, and the Cultures of Displacement”