NIU School of Art and Design students took home the top two prizes in the annual NIU Holiday Card Contest. Designers...
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Commencement profile: Christian Ulloa, School of Art and Design
Christian Ulloa, who graduated in December with a Bachelor of Fine Art in sculpture from the NIU School of Art and...
Art and Design’s Fall BFA Show opens Dec. 4
The 2023 Bachelor of Fine Arts student exhibition in the NIU School of Art and Design opens Monday, December 4 in the...
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...
NIU photography students to attempt to set a Guinness World Record
Just because the Olympics are over doesn't mean world records are safe. On Tuesday, March 29, photography students from the NIU School of Art and Design are going to attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world's largest cut-paper snowflake. The snowflake...
Art and Design’s Kryssi Staikidis solo exhibition “Emergence” opens at ARC Gallery on March 3
Kryssi Staikidis, Ed.D., Professor and Head of Art and Design Education at the NIU School of Art and Design has a solo exhibition at the ARC Gallery in Chicago from March 3-26. The show is titled "Emergence" and there is an opening reception, Friday, March 11 from 5...
Art and Design Professor Emeritus Richard Siegesmund to present on qualitative research and the arts
Richard Siegesmund, professor emeritus of Art and Design Education in the NIU School of Art and Design is the featured speaker of the Qualitative Inquiry Collaborative at NIU. He is the next speaker in their online speaker series that highlights varied research...
Amelia Kraehe to present visiting lecture on Creative Abolitionist Teaching
Dr. Amelia Kraehe, associate professor in art and visual culture education at the University of Arizona will present a visiting artist/scholar lecture, Tuesday, February 2 titled, "Creative Abolitionist Teaching: Anti-Racism Theory and Practice in the Art Classroom"...
Illustration major Caitlyn Alejandre wins 2021 NIU Holiday Card Contest
Caitlin Alejandre, a senior illustration major from Marengo won the annual NIU Holiday Card contest this year with her entry, "NIU Community." "I love creating playful imagery and incorporating strange, delightful details," Alejandre said. "I wanted to include imagery...
Art and Design presents Fall BFA Show, Nov. 30 – Dec. 3
The NIU School of Art and Design presents the Fall 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Show, an undergraduate exhibition, Tuesday, November 30 through Friday, December 3 in the Annette and Jerry Johns Gallery (Room 214) in Jack Arends Hall, the Visual Arts Building on...