Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller, professor of history at City University of New York Kingsborough will conduct a guest...
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CVPA students invited to check out NIU Athletics’ Beauty and the Beast meet
College of Visual and Performing Arts students, support our friends in NIU Athletics by attending the unique Beauty...
Art and Design Education’s Kerry Freedman earns Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
Kerry Freedman, Ph.D., professor and head of art education, has earned the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award from...
Art and Design Education’s Kryssi Staikidis named 2022 NIU Presidential Engagement and Partnership Professor
For nearly 20 years, Kryssi Staikidis has, through her work as a researcher and an art educator, been asking fundamental questions about how artistic engagement and intercultural exchanges within communities on a global level form bridges of mutual understanding and...
Caroline Kent, Northwestern University art theory and practice professor to give visiting scholar presentation at NIU, April 12
Caroline Kent, assistant professor of art theory and practice at Northwestern University, will deliver a visiting scholar presentation, Tuesday, April 12 at 6 p.m. in Room 100 of Jack Arends Hall, the Visual Arts Building on the NIU Main Campus. The presentation will...
Malika Green, ’05, M.M. ’07, Forges Passion for Jewelry-Making Into Business
Malika Green has always been an artistic soul, and her passion for creating has manifested itself in several ways and stages throughout her life. Growing up in Maryland in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Green was always an introvert, but she never shied away from...
World Music Festival features six free concerts over five nights
The annual World Music Festival in the NIU School of Music features six concerts between April 11 and 16. All concerts are free to attend. Monday, April 11 Japanese Taiko Concert Boutell Memorial Concert Hall 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 Chinese Music Concert Recital...
NIU photography students best world record holder for largest paper snowflake
NIU School of Art and Design students in ARTD 464 Advanced Photography: Post Production created a paper snowflake that measured 44 feet, six inches, besting the current Guinness of Book of World Record of 20 feet and one half inch. The students, led by Jessica...
Follow along live with the world record attempt for the world’s largest paper snowflake
Students in the photography area of the Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design are attempting to break the world record for the world's largest paper snowflake today, starting at 1 p.m. in the NIU Convocation Center. You can follow along live by...
Art and Design presents visiting artist presentation by Sharif Bey
Sharif Bey, associate professor of art at Syracuse University will present an online visiting artist lecture, Monday, April 4 at 5 p.m. titled "Life, Art and Social Responsibility." Bey is a teaching artist in ceramics, sculpture, art community programming and art...
Voices of Belonging exhibit to run from March 31-April 14 in Founders Memorial Library
An interactive audio exhibit that builds on the work of last year's "Faces of Belonging" collaboration, "Voices of Belonging" will run from March 31-April 14 in NIU's Founders Memorial Library. Voices of Belonging is a collaboration among NIU's Northern Public Radio...
New media artist Snow Yunxue Fu to present visiting artist talk April 6
Snow Yunxue Fu, US-based Chinese-born artist, curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts will present a visiting artist talk, Wednesday, April 6 at 11 a.m. via Zoom. Fu's work builds off of...