The Royal Thai Consulate-General has made a donation of $15,000 to help fund NIU's Thai Music Ensemble and related...
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Students can win $500 from Adobe by creating a video about why they love NIU
Tell us why you love NIU! Adobe is sponsoring our Homecoming Video Competition and is asking students to submit a...
Avalon String Quartet performance features new score to a French silent film classic
Avalon String Quartet concert goers will enjoy a screening of the French silent film classic Ménilmontant and the...
“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...
John Paul named interim director of NIU School of Music
John F. Paul, DM, an educator, musician and composer with more than 30 years of teaching experience and nearly 25 years as a department chair will serve as the interim director of the NIU School of Music. Andrew Glendening, who has been Director of the School of Music...