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Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series welcomes Megan Brendow-Faller, Feb. 7

Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller, professor of history at City University of New York Kingsborough will conduct a guest lecture, Wednesday, February 7 as part of NIU's Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series. The lecture is titled "Vally Wieselthier and...

NIU hosts collecting and collectors symposium for Americans In Burma exhibition

The NIU Center for Burma Studies is hosting a collecting and collectors symposium, Friday, April 14 to coincide with the exhibition "Americans in Burma: The Art of Collecting" which is open now through May 13 in the NIU Art Museum. The symposium is free and open to...

Art History’s Sinclair Bell named 2021 Presidential Teaching Professor

In nominating Prof. Sinclair Bell for the Presidential Teaching Professorship, Judith Testa, professor emerita of the NIU School of Art and Design, described Bell as “that rare individual among university faculty members: a brilliant, innovative and extraordinarily...

Typography, Memory and Heritage – A Brazilian Perspective, lecture March 24

Priscila Farias, PhD, a professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, will give a presentation on Typograpy, Memory and Heritage, A Brazilian Perspective as part of the NIU School of Art and Design's Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History lecture...
NIU Art History ranked Top 10 by College Magazine

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...

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Art History professor Sinclair Bell to lecture at ISU

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...

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Art History Newsletter – Fall 2017

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...

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