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Composer Alex Shapiro to work with NIU music students during season-long residency
Alex Shapiro, an accomplished composer of acoustic and electroacoustic works, has formed a unique partnership this academic year with the NIU School of Music. She is donating her time and expertise to NIU where she will be supervising the recording of six of her...
Non-male cast tackles Men on Boats to open School of Theatre and Dance season
The opening production in the 2026-2027 Production Season in the NIU School of Theatre Dance is Men on Boats, a 2017 comedy adventure by playwright Jaclyn Backhaus that tells the “true-ish” story of John Wesley Powell’s expedition to map the Colorado River in 1896....
Thai Consul office makes donation to NIU
The Royal Thai Consulate-General has made a donation of $15,000 to help fund NIU's Thai Music Ensemble and related courses at the university. Andrew Glendening, interim dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and John Paul, interim director of the School of...
Students can win $500 from Adobe by creating a video about why they love NIU
Tell us why you love NIU! Adobe is sponsoring our Homecoming Video Competition and is asking students to submit a 30-60 second self-made video sharing why they love NIU and why they have #HuskiePride. Winners of the video contest will be announced during Homecoming...
Avalon String Quartet performance features new score to a French silent film classic
Avalon String Quartet concert goers will enjoy a screening of the French silent film classic Ménilmontant and the world premiere of a score to the film composed by the Avalon's Blaise Magnière, Thursday, October 1 at 7 p.m. in the NIU Recital Hall. At just 38...
Music hosts “All of US” an anti-Asian hate chamber opera, Sept. 25
The NIU School of Music presents All of US a chamber opera in one act, Friday, September 25 at 5 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. The performance is free of charge. An artist discussion will follow the performance. All of US is an anti-Asian hate chamber...
New Student Jamboree at School of Theatre and Dance, Sept. 10
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance class of 2030 is excited to introduce themselves to you at "THE MOMENT BEFORE": New Student Jamboree. With our new students caught on a runaway train into the unknown, they must discover within themselves a way out. This...
Olmec Heads Experience and the 40th Anniversary of the Burma Art Collection exhibitions open in NIU Art Museum Sept. 16
This fall, the NIU Art Museum is presenting one of the most distinctive exhibitions ever hosted on campus: The Olmec Heads Experience. The exhibition features twenty-five monumental, artist-designed sculptures inspired by the ancient Olmec civilization. The exhibition...
Visiting artist Melanie Yazzie to lecture on “Stories That Shape Us” in School of Art and Design.
Indigenous Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie will be on campus September 14-16, visiting the NIU School of Art and Design. Yazzie, who currently resides in Colorado works in a wide range of media including printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and installation art....
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