The Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History Lecture Series, the NIU School of Art and Design and the NIU...
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School of Art and Design hosts Artifical Intellingence in Visual Arts Symposium, April 12
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. How do artists and art history scholars understand and anticipate the...
Meet the new director for the Center for Burma Studies, Feb. 7
An open house is being held, Wednesday, February 7 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to welcome Aurore Candier, Ph.D. as the...
LVL3’s Vincent Uribe to chat with ARTS715 class
Vincent Uribe, director of LVL3, an artist-run exhibition space and online publication launched in 2010 will chat with students in ART715: Professional Studio Practices, in an open to the public Zoom, Thursday, February 25 at 6:30 p.m. Uribe is an artist and creative...
In Art Gallery director to discuss resources for artists to exhibit their work
Haley Clancy Inyart, co-director of The In Art Gallery, an online gallery and resource for artists in all ranges of careers to have a platform to exhibit artwork and reach a global audience, will be the subject of a Zoom meeting, Thursday, February 25 at 11 a.m. The...
MFA grad Geoffrey Todd Smith featured at Western Exhibitions
Chicago based artist Geoffrey Todd Smith, a 1997 MFA graduate of the NIU School of Art has a solo exhibition currently running at Western Exhibitions, 1709 W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago. Sordid Orchestra is Smith's sixth solo show at Western Exhibitions. The gallery...
Art and Design Professor Todd Buck’s work featured in Doctors Without Borders publication
Todd Buck, professor and illustration area coordinator of the NIU School of Art and Design created all of the illustrations in a new report published by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders titled "Overcoming Neglect" which calls for an improved global...
Art and Design alumnus Joe Tallman advances in Pabst Blue Ribbon can design contest
Joe Tallman, a graduate of the illustration program in the NIU School of Art and Design is one of five finalists in Pabst Blue Ribbon's contest to redesign their cans. Tallman's entry was one of thousands submitted and he made the cutdown to the top 25 designs and has...
Art and Design Education’s Kryssi Staikidis honored by National Arts Education Associaton
Kryssi Staikidis, Ed.D., Professor and Head of Art and Design Education in the Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the National Arts Education Association's June King McFee Award. The June King McFee Award...
Photography students selected for publications and exhibitions
A number of photography students in the NIU School of Art and Design have had work selected for publications and exhibitions recently. Mikayla Shuster's "Cat Nap" was chosen for Analog Forever Magazine's December "Love in all forms" exhibition:Amy Fleming earned...
Photography project among next steps to enhance ‘belonging’ in DeKalb
Efforts by Northern Illinois University and local partners to increase racial healing recently got a boost from the State of Illinois in the form of a grant to foster efforts to create a Belonging leadership council and fund public art and engagement activities in...
Art History Professor Sinclair Bell wins prestigious NEH Fellowship to study Race in Antiquity
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $32.8 million in grants to support 213 humanities projects in 44 states, including a research Fellowship for Sinclair Bell, Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University, to research the...