Art Daily (Aug. 27) -- Five new exhibitions presenting local, regional, and
international artists kick off the U. of I.’s Krannert Art Museum fall season. more.

University of Illinois News Bureau, Champaign, Ill. – Tickets are still available for the University of Illinois School of Music’s third annual Allerton Music Barn Festival, September 3-7.

The festival, a veritable sampler featuring genres ranging from jazz
and opera to American brass-band and Czech chamber music, takes place
in a restored 19th-century Dutch hay barn on the southeast edge of the
university’s Allerton Park and Retreat Center near Monticello, Ill.

Eight concerts and several pre- and post-concert activities – including
tango demonstrations, lectures and nature and star walks – will take
place during the five-day festival.

Light gourmet fare and beverages will be available for purchases an
hour before each concert and during intermission at the barn’s
first-floor bistro. Tickets may be purchased through the Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts ticket office, 217-333-6280, or the
festival Web site.

Detailed information about the festival also is available on the festival Web site.

After working as a NCSA Faculty Fellow with Peter Bajcsy(NCSA) in 2008-2009, Professor Anne D. Hedeman, from the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Bajscy won two NSF grants to continue their work. They were co-PIs for the first grant, awarded in May 2009 ($24,000) to support an interdisciplinary international workshop that brought together computer scientists and humanists to examine the spectrum of problems requiring imaging and images analyses and to examine existing technologies and solutions that are currently available.  The second NSF grant ($128,000) was awarded in August 2009 to a team (Bajcsy, PI; Hedeman co-PI; Kevin Franklin [I-Chass] co-PI; and Karen Fresco [French]) that will work to develop cyber tools to enhance analysis of a group of eight fully digitalized fifteenth-century manuscript copies of Jean Froissart’s chronicles in order to understand aspects of the production and consumption of these books and their place in late medieval culture.

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Pacifica Quartet received a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance at the 2009 Grammy Awards. more.

The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill., July 16) -- Mike Ross, the director of the University of Illinois' Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, said decisions about which artists to invite to Krannert Center depend on how any one show fits into the overall season. “I also am so appreciative of the challenges that the most recent
economy, especially, put in front of arts and cultural organizations,
as well as just about every other kind of organization I can think of.”
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