This fall, the NIU Art Museum is presenting one of the most distinctive exhibitions ever hosted on campus: The Olmec...
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Visiting artist Melanie Yazzie to lecture on “Stories That Shape Us” in School of Art and Design.
Indigenous Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie will be on campus September 14-16, visiting the NIU School of Art and Design....
Head’s up! Upcoming Art Museum exhibition extends to campus
A stroll around campus can serve as a preview of a new exhibition coming soon to the galleries of the NIU Art Museum....
Music’s Bobby Broom’s new album “Notes of Thanks” featured in Downbeat Magazine
The latest album from Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music, Notes of Thanks, a tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was featured in the July edition of Downbeat Magazine. Broom first performed with Rollins at...
“The Risk Worth Taking” exhibition open now in Jack Olson Gallery
DeKalb, Illinois -- “The Risk Worth Taking” a visual art exhibition by NIU School of Art and Design alumnus Kevin Cole will run in the Jack Olson Gallery in NIU’s Jack Arends Hall from August 24 through October 16. “The Risk Worth Taking” draws a personal narrative...
Music’s Gregory Beyer earns Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant
Gregory Beyer, professor of music and director of percussion studies in the NIU School of Music received a $12,000 Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant to support the commission of two works for marimba by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner and...
Art and Design’s Sinclair Bell selected to write essay for Etruscan exhibition in Legion of Honor Museum
Sinclair Bell, PhD, professor of art history in the NIU School of Art and Design, was one of 18 international consulting scholars invited to write an essay in the Yale University Press published exhibition catalogue for "The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy"...
SoTD’s Kay Martinovich to direct “Marble” at Gift Theatre
Kay Martinovich, associate professor and head of BFA acting in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, has found another work by acclaimed Irish playwright Marina Carr to direct. Martinovich has previously directed two of Carr's plays. She directed The Mai for Irish Rep...
Huskie Spotlight: Kyla Reisenbichler, Music Education, ’28
Kyla Reisenbichler is a music education major in the NIU School of Music who plans to graduate in 2028. The oldest of seven siblings from Freeport, Illinois, Kyla originally planned to become a nurse and earned her CNA while still in high school. A trip to the...
Paintings by former NIU Art faculty Carl Hayano on view at Industrial Treasures
Forty years after landmark oral history interview about his family's internment during World War II, three rarely seen works on display Industrial Treasures, located at the east end of Indiana Avenue, 1501 Indiana Ave., Unit 1A, St. Charles, IL, is now offering three...
Daniel Chukwunyem wins advanced classical voice category at NATS
Daniel Chukwunyem, a master of music student in the NIU School of Music won the Advanced Classical TBB Voice Category at the 59th Annual National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) convention in San Antonio, Texas. Chukwunyem is a native of Lagos, Nigeria who...
Andrew Glendening named Interim Dean of NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts
Andrew Glendening, D.M., has been selected as the interim dean for the Northern Illinois University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Glendening came to NIU in 2019 to serve as the director of the NIU School of Music, and has previous administrative experience as...