Art and Design Archives

Watch: Dr. Ellen Winner’s guest lecture, “How Art Works: Five Puzzles”

In her lecture, “How Arts Works: Five Puzzles,” presented to NIU School of Art and Design, November 10, artist and experimental psychologist Dr. Ellen Winner discusses puzzles about the arts that have preoccupied philosophers as well as the general public. Can art be...

David Spoehr, ’02, gets creative with Chicago-based design company Monroestar

It is the year 1998, and NIU visual communication student David Spoehr is passionately cheering on the Huskies football team (who were on a significant losing streak) while decked out in full face and chest paint at Huskie Stadium. He is there with his best...

Mike Rea and friends present, “I Yell Because I Care, He Needs Me” on instruments real, and imagined

One of the most talked about pieces in the NIU Art Museum's current installation, the NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Continuum is a sculpture of a piano, "Tight Notes and Black Holes, CTINH (Conceptualize there is no Heaven"  created by Mike Rea, associate...

Art and Design’s Mike Rea presents “I Yell Because I Care, He Needs Me” music video, November 14

Artist and Associate Professor of Sculpture Mike Rea puts together "a band" to produce a music video featuring his ​sculpture Tight Notes and Black Holes, CTINH (Conceptualize there is no Heaven), 2019. I Yell Because I Care, He Needs Me, ​is a site-specific...

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