Award-winning CEO Catherine Lang-Cline, ’88, leveraged her 15-year career in creative marketing to build Portfolio...
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Art and Design’s Frank Trankina named 2024 Illinois Arts Council Fellow
Frank Trankina, professor of art in the NIU School of Art and Design has been selected as one of the Illinois Arts...
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...
Still time to give to Curtain Call! and the Dean will match your donation
Just two days remain to give to our Crowdfund campaign to support our senior artists. As a last minute incentive, Paul Kassel, Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts will match the next $750 in new donations! Visit our crowdfund page to make your...
CVPA faculty serve as mentors on College of Engineering and Engineering Technology Senior Design Day projects
Every year seniors in NIU's College of Engineering and Engineering Technology engage in a year-long design project that involves creating or improving commercial products or industrial processes. They are mentored by faculty and industry professionals to get hands-on,...
Art History’s Sinclair Bell named 2021 Presidential Teaching Professor
In nominating Prof. Sinclair Bell for the Presidential Teaching Professorship, Judith Testa, professor emerita of the NIU School of Art and Design, described Bell as “that rare individual among university faculty members: a brilliant, innovative and extraordinarily...
CVPA’s Jessica Labatte and Paula Frasz among this year’s winners of Deacon Davis Awards
The Presidential Commission on Race and Ethnicity (PCORE), formerly the Presidential Commission on the Status of Minorities (PSCM), has reimagined the annual Diversity and Inclusion luncheon as a virtual summit. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 14...
NIU Foundation launches crowdfunding campaigns, including one to support graduating artists
Those looking to make a difference at NIU have a new tool to help raise much-needed financial support. NIU Impact, the NIU Foundation’s new crowdfunding program at http://crowdfund.niu.edu and features ten campaigns. One of those campaigns is "Curtain Call! - Support...
Exhibits and conversations promote Belonging in DeKalb
While the pandemic has been keeping people apart, the City of DeKalb, Northern Illinois University and a collection of local agencies have been working to bring the DeKalb community closer together through the Belonging initiative. The initiative to develop a...
Typography, Memory and Heritage – A Brazilian Perspective, lecture March 24
Priscila Farias, PhD, a professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, will give a presentation on Typograpy, Memory and Heritage, A Brazilian Perspective as part of the NIU School of Art and Design's Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History lecture...
Wrapped in Fashion: Japanese Kimono next up in Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History Lecture Series
"Wrapped in Fashion: Japanese Kimono," is the next talk in the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History Lecture Series. Presented by Janice Katz, the Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, the lecture will be held...
NIU Printmaking exhibition at ARC Gallery Chicago
Students in the Printmaking Area of the NIU School of Art and Design are exhibiting their work at the ARC Gallery in Chicago, 1463 W. Chicago Ave. Plucked & Gleaned opened on March 6 and runs through March 27. It is a group exhibition of fine art prints. The work...