College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois

09/16/2026

09/16/2026

In this year of the 250th anniversary of our nation, Dance at Illinois celebrates collaboration as the key concept of democracy. Paige Cunningham Caldarella creates a new work assisted by senior BFA student Cheyenne Smith and in partnership with the mighty first-year undergraduate students of Dance at Illinois. Second-year MFA candidate Hollis Bartlett reconstructs a work by his mentor, contemporary choreographer Doug Varone, and two groups of dance faculty; Sara Hook, Samuel Hanson & Roxane D’Orleans Juste, as well as Serouj Aprahamian, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Jacob Henss, Laura Chiaramonte & Anna Sapozhnikov combine forces and methodologies to unleash powerful premieres with designs by Illinois Theatre students.
October 15-17, 2026
Colwell Playhouse, 7:30pm

https://krannertcenter.com/events/dance-illinois-october-dance

Photo: Natalie Fiol
Danzel Thompson-Stout’s (MFA ‘21) Danzel Thompson-Stout “Manifesting our Movement; Manifesting our Dance”
College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Smile Politely

09/16/2026

Grace is pursuing her Masters in Urban Planning at Illinois. Hear more about why she chose Illinois, and how this program is helping her achieve her career goals!

Check out the full video at: https://youtu.be/I2-wyI-GRwk?is=x95f6mHX-Rz1pHDB

09/11/2026

Five talented University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are getting valuable hands-on opportunities in environmental sustainability this year as iSEE's inaugural Levenick Undergraduate Research Scholars! ✨

These young scholars are working with faculty mentors to evaluate challenges on campus and use data to identify fresh solutions.

Their projects will explore ways to expand , improve efficiency, reuse for sustainable or renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas — advancing goals in the Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP), the university's roadmap to a sustainable, carbon-neutral campus. ♻️

Congratulations to our new scholars!
🔹Dylan Wombacher, sophomore in Plant Biotechnology, University of Illinois College of ACES
🔹Kristina Muharremaj, junior in Earth, Society, & Environmental Sustainability, Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois
🔹John Han, junior in Finance and Data Science, Gies College of Business
🔹Vivek Limaye, sophomore in Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering
🔹Michelle Martignon, sophomore in Sustainable Design, College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois

Special thanks to our donors, Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick, for their support for this program!

➡️ Read more: https://loom.ly/NfJ4cDo

Sustainable Design at Illinois | Aerospace Engineering at The University of Illinois | SESE | University of Illinois

09/11/2026

Join us this fall at IlliniFest! Explore our campus at your own pace with open events happening all day! Join us on Saturday, September 26 for a classic campus-wide open house OR join us for a more focused experience Monday, October 12. Can’t wait to see you there!

Registration is now open
https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/special-events/

09/10/2026

Get ready to dance on your feet or in your seat with Cultura Pesá!💃🎉

Jomar Santos, founder of Cultura Pesá, discovered his passion for the cuatro, the 10-stringed national instrument of Puerto Rico, in high school and went on to perfect his technique and expand his musical knowledge at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He founded Cultura Pesá to connect young people to their cultural heritage, empowering a new generation of musicians to enjoy and share bomba, plena, salsa, seises, and aguinaldos musical styles with joy and passion.

*This performance is part of the campus-wide celebration, "Celebrating Latin America & the Caribbean," and is jointly sponsored by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, the Grainger International Student Community, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and La Casa Cultural House.

👤 Cultura Pesá
🗓️ Wednesday, September 16th
⏰ 7:00pm
📍 Stage 5 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
🎟️ FREE! Click here for more information: https://krannertcenter.com/events/cultura%C2%A0pes%C3%A1

Cultura Pesá
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Illinois
La Casa Cultural Latina
The Grainger College of Engineering
College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois

09/10/2026

"The Summer Faculty Fellowship gave me the opportunity to develop ARCH 403 not simply as a new seminar, but as part of a larger question that has been emerging across my research, teaching, and practice: How might we teach architecture otherwise?" - Yazmín M. Crespo-Claudio (Architecture at Illinois)

Yazmín’s work points toward what she calls “archipelagic pedagogies”: approaches to teaching and knowledge-making that privilege relation over isolation, resist extractive forms of engagement, and recognize knowledge as situated and collective.

Check out Yazmín's feature about rethinking architecture from/with the Caribbean at the center! Humanities Research Institute at Illinois
https://publish.illinois.edu/inquiryblog/2026/08/18/claudio/

09/09/2026

Info session TODAY 9/9 at 5:00pm! Learn about Urban Sustainability Study Abroad Courses! Join us at Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, Room 227 at 5pm to learn about two programs:

✈️ London: Urban Design & Sustainability (Spring Break March 12-20, 2027)

✈️Urban Sustainability in Copenhagen (Summer Short-term May 18-28, 2027)

See you there! 🌍
University of Illinois Dept of Landscape Architecture
Sustainable Design at Illinois
Architecture at Illinois
School of Art and Design at Illinois

09/09/2026

"My research is situated at the intersection of ballet, contemporary ballet, and modern dance as both artistic practice and a site of deep movement investigation—not to uphold these forms uncritically, but to understand better, challenge, and innovate from within them." - Paige Cunningham Caldarella

Through choreographic research on Merce Cunningham’s "Summerspace," Paige's project explores how historical dance practices can serve as departure points for contemporary artistic inquiry. Rather than treating Cunningham’s legacy as fixed, the research asks how it might be revisited, challenged, and reimagined through contemporary ballet and embodied practice.

Check out her feature with the Humanities Research Institute at Illinois!
https://publish.illinois.edu/inquiryblog/2026/08/25/caldarella/

09/09/2026

Hope the beginning of the semester is going well for everyone! Here's a throw back to Welcome Week, let us know how classes are going!!