FEATURED
Support NIU Music scholarships and enjoy a 30+ year old Jazz Ensemble performance from the Rialto Square Theatre
On January 10, 1990 the NIU Jazz Ensemble (now known as the NIU Jazz Orchestra) played a concert at the iconic Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, Illinois. The band had by then established a reputation as one of the very best collegiate jazz bands in the nation, a...
NIU Art Museum annual “Art to Lend” selection period now open
The NIU Art Museum’s annual “Art to Lend” 2024 selection period is now open for faculty and staff on campus. This annual service allows individuals and departments to enhance their private offices and the administrative areas of our university by renting original...
Community School receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fund Grant
The NIU Community School of the Arts has received a $2,500 Farny R. Wulitzer Foudation Fund Grant grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. This is a continuation of several years of Wurlitzer Grants received by the Community School. In all, $116,100 was...
Music’s Bobby Broom to host a new jazz program on WNIJ 89.5
Beginning in June 2024, NIU Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar and Jazz Studies Bobby Broom will host a new original program, Jazz Spectrum, on WNIJ 89.5. Broom is a jazz guitarist and associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in NIU’s College of Visual and...
Michael Leeson ’24, shoots and scores for NIU Soccer and School of Art and Design
At any university the performing arts students and intercollegiate athletes are some of the most visible students on campus. Not only is that true at NIU, but Paul Kassel, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and Sean Frazier, vice president/director of...
Commencement profile: Chih-I Hsiao, Master of Music
The renowned World Music program at NIU is what drew Chih-I Hsaio to DeKalb after earning his degree in Music Theory of Taiwanese traditional music at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He chose to earn a Master of Music in World Music at NIU. "I have had a...
ART AND DESIGN
Michael Leeson ’24, shoots and scores for NIU Soccer and School of Art and Design
At any university the performing arts students and intercollegiate athletes are some of the most visible students on campus. Not only is that true at NIU, but Paul Kassel, dean...
Kevin Cole, M.F.A. ’85: From childhood art therapy to the Smithsonian
Artist Kevin Cole, M.F.A. ‘85, has created more than 47 public art works, including a 15-story Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic mural he was commissioned to create for the 1996...
THEATRE AND DANCE
Annual Spring Dance Concert wraps up School of Theatre and Dance production season
The 2023-2024 performance season in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance concludes with the annual Spring Dance Concert opening Thursday, April 25 with a 7:30 p.m. performance in...
Theatre and Dance presents a new take on showbiz in the 21st century
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Booked and Blessed...OR BUST! a heartfelt examination of the many struggles that self-made actors go through. Written by Alexander...
MUSIC
Support NIU Music scholarships and enjoy a 30+ year old Jazz Ensemble performance from the Rialto Square Theatre
On January 10, 1990 the NIU Jazz Ensemble (now known as the NIU Jazz Orchestra) played a concert at the iconic Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, Illinois. The band had by then...
Music’s Bobby Broom to host a new jazz program on WNIJ 89.5
Beginning in June 2024, NIU Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar and Jazz Studies Bobby Broom will host a new original program, Jazz Spectrum, on WNIJ 89.5. Broom is a jazz...
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NIU Art Museum annual “Art to Lend” selection period now open
The NIU Art Museum’s annual “Art to Lend” 2024 selection period is now open for faculty and staff on campus. This annual service allows individuals and departments to enhance...
Community School receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fund Grant
The NIU Community School of the Arts has received a $2,500 Farny R. Wulitzer Foudation Fund Grant grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. This is a continuation of...
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