The museum is always free and open to all. Visitors can explore a range of exhibitions, including Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600, Stitching Ecologies: The Urbana-Champaign Crochet Coral Reef, and Centering Clay: Connection and Innovation in American Studio Ceramics, alongside the museum's permanent collections.

Krannert also has special dated Welcoming Week programming — see September 10, 11, and 19 on the calendar below.

Celebrating the numerous community murals and work of Jose Vazquez and the spirit of welcome.

An opening celebration takes place September 10 — see the calendar below.

Emerging around 2500 BCE among the Warli tribe of Maharashtra, India, Warli art is one of humanity's oldest living visual languages. With its spare geometry of circles, triangles, and lines, it speaks of rhythm, community, and the eternal bond between humankind and nature. In my work, I draw upon Warli's timeless symbology, occasionally alongside the flowing forms of the Pacific Northwest — two traditions united by their reverence for the natural world. Through them, I seek to move beyond external scenes of life into the inner workings of the mind — landscapes shaped by memory, myth, emotions and imagination. In this dialogue, I hope to bring an art form as old as time to my new home in the Midwest.

A story that marks the beginning of time and the origin of female power, I draw upon this still relevant telling of a woman who became the first goddess by turning to the fire inside her and forever be remembered as the power of gentle defiance. Maa Sati was the companion of Shiva. When her father repeatedly insulted and disapproved of her choice of partner, Sati immolated herself and with that brought a manic grief to Shiva that eventually led to the creation of the power centers of Hindu Female Spiritual Energy or Shakti. Each Shakti Peeth (center of power) was where a part of Sati fell. To me, the everyday tribulation and ultimate triumph of women is simply but a retelling of the story of beginnings through endings.

Artist Bio

Kuhu Shukla is a self-taught artist whose work draws on Warli art - an ancient tribal tradition from Maharashtra, India - and occasionally on the flowing forms of the Pacific Northwest. In her work, she reimagines Warli's geometry as a language of memory and inner life, creating work that meditates on belonging, change, and metamorphosis. Rooted in the living spirit of nature and traditions, her paintings trace rhythms that connect humanity, landscape, and emotion.