Millicent Kennedy

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Title: Instructor
Division: Studio Art
Office Location: AB 414F
Email: mkennedy8@niu.edu
Website: millicentkennedy.com

Educational Background

  • M.F.A. and Museum Studies Certificate, Northern Illinois University
  • B.A., Northeastern Illinois University

Emphases

  • Printmaking

Courses Taught

  • Intro to Printmaking
  • Serigraphy (Screenprint)
  • Professional Practices
  • Intermediate Printmaking and Alternative Practices  

Selected exhibitions

Upcoming in 2026

Permeable Images| Two Person Show with Jesse Ly | ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL 

Center Program Exhibition | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 


2025

Continual Coweaving | Site Specific Installation, STNDRD, Granite City, IL 

 ​All Houses Are Haunted| Two Person Exhibition with Lauren Iacoponi  | Purple Window Gallery  | Chicago, IL  

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​​2024 

Thirst Trap | Bridgeport Art Center| Chicago, IL 

Transforming Antidotes | Two Person Exhibition | Coop Gallery | Nashville, TN 

Shift Change | Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum | LaConner, WA 

Continuous Span | Hyde Park Art Center | Chicago, IL 

 

2023 

Threads of Echoes | The Plan | Chicago, IL  

Tendril Bearer | Terrain Biennial | Chicago, IL 

The Remaining, Mourn | NIU Art Museum | DeKalb, IL 

Petrified Wastage | Three Person Exhibition | Heaven Gallery | Chicago, IL  

Time's Witness with Arden Cone | Upstairs Art Space | Tryon, NC 

For Those Who Toil with Michael Chambers | Purple Window Gallery | Chicago, IL  

 

2022 

Provisions: Labor and Luxury | Charles Allis Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI 

Excavated Ephemera | Solo Exhibition | Arrowhead Room Gallery | Waubonsee Community College | Sugar Grove, IL 

Misfit Muses | Solo Exhibition |  Belong Gallery | Chicago, IL  

Uncommon Prints x Common Matices | Woman Made Gallery | Chicago, IL 


Residencies

2025 
Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL  

2024 
ACRE, Steuben, WI 
Ragdale Residency, Lake Forest, IL 

2023
Bridge Program Fall 2023 Cohort, Chicago, IL 
Awakenings Cohort, Chicago, IL  

2022 
Terrain Exhibitions Residency, Terrain Exhibitions, Springfield, IL 
Lillstreet Artist in Residence, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL 

 

Selected Works

 

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