The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced $32.8 million in grants to support 213 humanities...
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Art History’s Catherine Raymond to present on the Future of the Cathedral Notre Dame of Paris
Catherine Raymond, professor of art history and director of the NIU Center for Burma Studies is presenting a free,...
NIU Center for Burma Studies presents online exhibition “Looking At Women in Contemporary Burma”
The Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University has launched an online exhibition, "Looking At Women in...
NIU’s Carmin Berchiolly to be honored as Best Graduate Student of the Year by Illinois Association of Museums
NIU's Carmin Berchiolly, who recently graduated with her Master of Arts in art history will be honored by the Illinois Association of Museums with the 2018 award for "Best Graduate Student" at this year's IAM awards program, October 4 at the Kidzeum of Health and...
NIU Art History ranked Top 10 by College Magazine
College Magazine has ranked the Art History program at NIU as one of the top ten in the Midwest, according to a report published on September 11, 2018. NIU's Art History program was ranked number eight on the College Magazine list ahead of the Art Academy of...
Art History Professor Mary Quinlan receives National Science Foundation grant
Mary Quinlan, Professor of Art History in NIU’s School of Art and Design, has received a major grant from the National Science Foundation to support her research into the roles of vision and visual psychology in 16th century iconoclasms. Quinlan is working on a book...
Art and Design’s Quinlan to give Sonntag Distinguished Art Scholar lecture at Benedictine University
Mary Quinlan, Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design will present "Raphael's School of Athens: Nature, the Devine, the Hope for Peace" at Benedictine University's Komechak Art Gallery as the Sonntag Distinguished Art Scholar, Sunday, May 6 at 2 p.m....
Art and Design’s Catherine Raymond awarded Rakow Grant for Glass Research
NIU Professor of Art History and Director of the NIU Center for Burma Studies, Catherine Raymond has been awarded a Rakow Grant for Glass Research from the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY. Raymond’s grant funding will be used to complete a manuscript on the...
Expert on Roman monuments shares insights with NIU Art History students
Dr. John Osborne, one of the foremost experts on Roman architecture and monuments was at NIU March 21 and 22 as part of the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series. Osborne presented the lecture, "The Monuments of Ancient Rome in the Medieval...
Art History professor Sinclair Bell to lecture at ISU
School of Art and Design Professor Sinclair Bell is lecturing this spring as part of Illinois State University's Speaker Series. Race and representation in the Roman Empire Sinclair Bell Classical archaeologist and art historian “Race and Representation in the Roman...
Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History concludes with John Osborne on monuments of ancient Rome
The NIU School of Art and Design's annual Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series concludes, Wednesday, March 21 at 5 p.m., with John Osborne, emeritus faculty of Carleton University's lecture "The Monuments of Ancient Rome in the Medieval...
Art History Newsletter – Fall 2017
"Why has art been so important in the past, how does it affect our present and how will it shape our future?" That's the question that drives art historians at Northern Illinois University. The Fall 2017 newsletter is live and you can read it here, and for more on...