NIU Mariachi and Ballet Folklórico have have been selected to perform at the Chicago White Sox Mexican Heritage Night,...
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More Amor, featuring Bobby Broom reaches #1 on Jazz Week’s charts
The album More Amor, a tribute to Wes Montgomery by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and featuring Bobby Broom, reached...
Theatre and Dance’s Tracy Nunnally serving as flying director for Paramount Theatre’s Cats
Tracy Nunnally, professor and head of design and technology in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is serving as...
Art and Design hosts visiting artists week of March 20-24
Two prominent educators and printmakers will be visiting guest artists in the NIU School of Art and Design during the week of March 20. Jeff Sippel, professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and former education director at the world famous Tamarind...
Jessica Labatte to become director of the School of Art and Design
Jessica Labatte, associate professor and head of the photography department at the NIU School of Art and Design has accepted the position of director of the school effective July 1, 2023. Labatte will succeed Douglas Boughton, PhD, who is completing his three-year...
World record paper snowflake to be exhibited at NIU library, March 20-April 10
On March 29, 2022 students in Jessica Labatte's ARTD 464 Advanced Photography Post Production class set a Guinness World's Record for the largest paper snowflake when they made one that is 44 feet and six inches. It was more than double the previous world record...
Student-faculty concert to feature Joseph Klein’s Canetti-menagerie, March 9
Dr. Joseph Klein, distinguished teaching professor and chair of composition studies at the University of North Texas College of Music will visit the NIU School of Music, March 9-10. Highlighting the visit is a student-faculty concert, Thursday, March 9 at 7 p.m., in...
School of Music’s Bobby Broom to present master class highlighting release of “Keyed Up”
Bobby Broom, an internationally renowned guitarist and associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies at the NIU School of Music, is hosting a master class, Thursday, March 23 at 11 a.m. in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. The masterclass...
Cor Cantiamo continues its tradition of providing performance opportunities for high school singers with professionals
Cor Cantiamo, the choral ensemble in residence at the NIU School of Music, has a pair of exciting performances this March. Cor Cantiamo is directed by Eric Johnson, professor of music and coordinator of choral activities at NIU. Saturday March 4, Gordon Bennett Hall,...
NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Lauren Yee’s “in a word”
NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present "in a word" by Lauren Yee, directed by Kay Martinovich and Emily Vitrano in the NIU Stevens Building's Sally Stevens Players Theatre, February 24-26 and March 2-4. With evening performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. February...
Bobby Broom featured on VOA’s “Jazz From the Heart of America”
Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music was recently featured on Voice of America's series, "Jazz From the Heart of America." "Jazz From the Heart of America" is a weekly show that offers the best in jazz, present...
Theatre and Dance alumnus Chris Anthony to appear on Chicago PD
Chris Anthony, who completed his Master of Fine Arts in Acting at the NIU School of Theatre and Dance last spring recently filmed a role on the NBC series "Chicago PD." Anthony appeared in the NIU productions of "Kernel of Sanity," "The Restistable Rise of Arturo Ui,"...