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Douglas Boughton to receive NAEA’s Viktor Lowenfeld Award
Douglas Boughton, professor of art and design education in the NIU School of Art and Design has won just about every...
Nora (Balayti) Reuter, ’06, combines her interests in a new children’s book on someone’s first trip to Wrigley Field
When Nora (Balayti) Reuter was working shifts as a bartender at Murphy’s Bleachers, the popular sports bar located...
National Art Education Association honors NIU’s Kerry Freedman with Eisner Award
Dr. Kerry Freedman, professor of art and design education in the NIU School of Art and Design is the 2026 recipient of the National Art Education Association’s Eisner Lifetime Achievement Award. Freedman has previously been honored by the NAEA with the National Higher...
Huskie Spotlight – Lane Staffeldt, Art and Design Education
Lane Staffeldt, is a senior art and design education major who graduated from Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois and transferred to NIU from College of DuPage. Staffeldt is working as a research assistant to Kelly Gross, assistant professor of art and...
Stanley Schultz, ’04: Designing the Digital Backbone
Behind every click, stream and swipe lies a vast network of data centers — the backbone of our daily lives. “From 911 calls to banking, food production to aviation, medical to gas industries, the digital and physical systems that support modern living all pass through...
Full Speed Ahead: NIU fueled career growth for Adrienne Miller
Adrienne Miller, M.F.A. ’15, came to NIU with a clear goal: to elevate her career. Now serving as exhibition and publications manager at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, Miller has built a career where creativity meets precision. “I was a studio manager...
2025 President’s Holiday Card design contest winners
Students were invited to submit an original artistic design to be used as the 2025 NIU holiday card to help spread warmth and good cheer to the entire community. The theme for this year's holiday card competition was to capture the spirit of campus life, winter and...
NIU Sculpture presents outdoor group exhibition “Unimposing Yet Dignified” at Gurler House
Continuing the Gurler House’s tradition as a long-standing space of community gathering, the NIU School of Art and Design sculpture studio, and property owner, Shane Harris, extend a welcome to the neighbors, friends, and passersby to engage with the work of...
Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour to visit NIU, Oct. 29
The traveling tour of the 63rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival makes its next stop at NIU, Wednesday, October 29. The traveling tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences, for whom in many instances, the tour is...
NIU hosts 16th International Burma Studies Conference, Oct. 9-12
The NIU Center for Burma Studies is presenting the 16th International Burma Studies Conference, "Dealing With Legacies in Burma", Thursday, October 9 through Sunday, October 12. Conference sessions will be held in the Holmes Student Center with some pre-conference...
Updates on the faculty in the School of Art and Design
It's been a busy few months for faculty and staff in the NIU School of Art and Design. Kelly Gross, assistant professor of art education has been named Educator of the Year by Illinois Art Education Association. Amanda van Valkenburg earned tenure and promotion to...