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Catherine Lang-Cline ’88, receives Alumni Achievement in the Arts Award

Award-winning CEO Catherine Lang-Cline, ’88, leveraged her 15-year career in creative marketing to build Portfolio Creative, a niche recruiting and staffing company exclusive to roles in marketing. Combining her marketing expertise with her love for problem-solving...

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 Council Fellows for 2024. The Illinois Artist Fellowship provides a limited number of monetary awards annually to accomplished Illinois artists who have...

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 campus. Not only is that true at NIU, but Paul Kassel, dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and Sean Frazier, vice president/director of...

Kevin Cole, M.F.A. ’85: From childhood art therapy to the Smithsonian

Artist Kevin Cole, M.F.A. ‘85, has created more than 47 public art works, including a 15-story Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic mural he was commissioned to create for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. A challenge he completed without even touching the wall....
Graduate Profile: Edwin Perez-Hernandez, BFA in Photography
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Graduate Profile: Edwin Perez-Hernandez, BFA in Photography

15 May
NIU offers summer graduate class for art teachers
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NIU offers summer graduate class for art teachers

2 May
Art and Design BFA Show opens May 1
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Art and Design BFA Show opens May 1

26 Apr

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