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NIU offers summer graduate class for art teachers
Thinking about an online masters degree or just seeking professional development credits? The NIU School of Art and...
Art and Design BFA Show opens May 1
The annual show of graduating Bachelor Fine Arts majors in the School of Art and Design opens May 1 and will run...
Photography major Brookelyn Sears named to All-MAC team in gymnastics
Brookelyn Sears, a senior design and media arts major from Centerville, Ohio earned a spot in this year's All Mid-American Conference Academic team in gymnastics. Sears has a 3.68 cumulative grade point average and was a key member of a Huskies gymnastics team that...
Art and Design’s Brooke Stonebraker named All-MAC in women’s basketball
Brooke Stonebraker, a junior design and media arts major in the NIU School of Art and Design has been named to the All-Mid American Conference Academic team in women's basketball. Stonebraker came to NIU from Versailles High School in Versailles, Ohio. She's a 6'3...
NIU Printmaking welcomes Lynne Allen for visiting artist lecture
Lynne Allen, whose printmaking work has been exhibited around the globe will be at NIU the week of April 17-21 working in the NIU Printmaking Studio in Jack Arends Hall (AB 409) and will give a lecture, Tuesday, April 18 at 5 p.m. in AB 102. Allen is a Boston-based...
NIU hosts collecting and collectors symposium for Americans In Burma exhibition
The NIU Center for Burma Studies is hosting a collecting and collectors symposium, Friday, April 14 to coincide with the exhibition "Americans in Burma: The Art of Collecting" which is open now through May 13 in the NIU Art Museum. The symposium is free and open to...
Art and Design alumnae exhibition open at Purple Window Gallery
NIU School of Art and Design alumnae Rebecca Griffith and Lauren Iacoponi have a two-person exhibition open now through April 29 at Purple Window Gallery in Chicago. Griffith is an NIU STEAM educator who earned her B.S. Ed. in Art Education and her M.F.A. from the NIU...
Shei-Chau Wang’s Fulbright Grant focuses on furthering art education internationally
Shei-Chau Wang, associate professor of art education and student teacher coordinator in the NIU School of Art and Design is concluding the work on his Fulbright Grant in Indonesia. His project, Crossing Borders: Applying Visual and Cultural Inquiry to Art Education...
Visiting Artist – Stevie Imuakalani Cisneros Hanley, April 6
The NIU School of Art and Design is hosting a visiting artist lecture by Stevie Imuakalani Cisneros Hanley, titled "Hoopononpono." The lecture will be held Thursday, April 6 in Jack Arends Hall, room 102 at 2 p.m. Hanley received an M.F.A. from the School of The Art...
Art and Design hosts visiting artists week of March 20-24
Two prominent educators and printmakers will be visiting guest artists in the NIU School of Art and Design during the week of March 20. Jeff Sippel, professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and former education director at the world famous Tamarind...
Jessica Labatte to become director of the School of Art and Design
Jessica Labatte, associate professor and head of the photography department at the NIU School of Art and Design has accepted the position of director of the school effective July 1, 2023. Labatte will succeed Douglas Boughton, PhD, who is completing his three-year...