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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....
Head’s up! Upcoming Art Museum exhibition extends to campus
A stroll around campus can serve as a preview of a new exhibition coming soon to the galleries of the NIU Art Museum. The Olmec Heads Experience is a traveling exhibition of twenty-five monumental, artist-designed sculptures inspired by the colossal stone "heads"...
Music’s Bobby Broom’s new album “Notes of Thanks” featured in Downbeat Magazine
The latest album from Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music, Notes of Thanks, a tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was featured in the July edition of Downbeat Magazine. Broom first performed with Rollins at...
“The Risk Worth Taking” exhibition open now in Jack Olson Gallery
DeKalb, Illinois -- “The Risk Worth Taking” a visual art exhibition by NIU School of Art and Design alumnus Kevin Cole will run in the Jack Olson Gallery in NIU’s Jack Arends Hall from August 24 through October 16. “The Risk Worth Taking” draws a personal narrative...
Music’s Gregory Beyer earns Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant
Gregory Beyer, professor of music and director of percussion studies in the NIU School of Music received a $12,000 Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant to support the commission of two works for marimba by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner and...
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