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- Saturday Art School
The Saturday Art School works on many levels to meet the goals of the Art Education program. Saturday Art School functions as a community outreach program, enrolling approximately 200 children and young adults per semester from throughout East Central Illinois. As a teacher training center, the program supports the efforts of college level teachers in training from undergraduate pre-service teachers to Doctoral candidates. The School also serves as a research lab for curriculum development, artistic development, and innovations in instructional methods and design.
- I Space Gallery
I space provides a public forum for the visual, performing, and design arts as the Chicago gallery of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Japan House
The mission of Japan House at the University of Illinois is to provide an academic, cultural, and natural setting for promoting an appreciation of Japanese culture and related Asian cultural concepts. Built around the concept of the Way of Tea, with three separate tearooms, Japan House classes and outreach programs explore traditional Japanese arts and aesthetics.
- Illinois at the Phillips
Illinois at the Phillips is part of The Phillips Collection's new Center for the Study of Modern Art, which also includes intimate conversations with both well known and emerging artists, annual symposia, lectures and other formal and informal activities. Illinois at the Phillips is administered by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and provides university students, continuing education students, and members of the public with the opportunity to spend either one or two semesters enrolled in art history, museum studies, and studio classes with credit from the University of Illinois or on a non-credit basis. University students from any accredited undergraduate or graduate program are encouraged to apply. Illinois at the Phillips places students in nearby student housing as requested and can provide a full time course of study in the Center with outstanding faculty in modern and contemporary art. This unique program includes gallery visits to NYC and other field trips guided by faculty and experience in the finest small museum of modern art in the U.S.
- Ninth Letter
Ninth Letter is an award-winning literary arts journal published in a collaborative effort by students and faculty in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's School of Art + Design and Department of English. The journal and its affiliated web site, ninthletter.com, are an interdisciplinary project that explores the intersection of written and visual culture, publishing original work by established and emerging writers and artists.
- Design Matters
Design Matters will explore the synergistic interrelationships between design, engineering, technology, and business in the creation of innovative and successful products, services and experiences. Speakers herald from academia, the media, engineering, technology, business, and the design professions. We aim to stimulate conversations about how we literally and figuratively shape our future. All events are free, but early arrival is suggested due to seating limitations.
- Visual Arts Research
Published through the Art Education Division at the School of Art + Design, Visual Arts Research (VAR) is now in its 37th year of publication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign. Visual Arts Research provides a scholarly forum for educational, historical, cultural, philosophical, and psychological research in visual arts and aesthetic education. Unusual in its length and breadth of interests, VAR typically publishes two issues per year, each consisting of 10-12 timely scholarly articles, invited papers, book reviews, commentaries, and invited lectures delivered at annual conferences of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Visual Arts Research (VAR) also now publishes annually an invited scholarly paper from the annual recipient of the NAEA Seminar for Research in Art Education Elliot Eisner Dissertation Research Award.
Frequently cited as one of the premier scholarly journals in art education, Visual Arts Research is mailed to individual subscribers and premier university libraries around the world. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on all scholarly topics of interest to VAR readers. (Authors may mail four printed copies prepared in accordance with the publication guidelines of the American Psychological Association to Carole Smith, Assistant to the Editor, 143 Art + Design, Champaign, Illinois, 61820.
