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Robbie Ellis to perform at NIU Week of Welcome
Robbie Ellis is a comedy songwriter, music director for improv, comedy and musical theater, a composer and a...
Portrait suite to open this fall at Northern Illinois University Art Museum
Three exhibitions featuring the theme of portraiture are set to open Wednesday, Aug. 28, with a public opening...
Cartoonist Leigh Rubin visiting artist presentation, March 4
Cartoonist Leigh Rubin, whose cartoon "Rubes" is syndicated in more than 400 media outlets worldwide and distributed by Creators Syndicate will take part in an online visiting artist presentation with the NIU School of Art and Design, Thursday, March 4 at 11 a.m....
Photographer John Opera to give visiting artist lecture March 1
John Opera, a photographer who "works at the intersection of photographic materiality and light-derived abstraction" will present a visiting lecture for the NIU School of Art and Design, Monday, March 1 at 5 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public via Zoom...
Honors Recital to feature CSA Talent Scholarship Winners
Six talented young musicians perform in the annual CSA Honors Recital at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb on Saturday, February 27 at 1:30 p.m. All are recipients of this year’s CSA Talent Scholarship, awarded annually by the NIU Community School of the Arts. ...
LVL3’s Vincent Uribe to chat with ARTS715 class
Vincent Uribe, director of LVL3, an artist-run exhibition space and online publication launched in 2010 will chat with students in ART715: Professional Studio Practices, in an open to the public Zoom, Thursday, February 25 at 6:30 p.m. Uribe is an artist and creative...
In Art Gallery director to discuss resources for artists to exhibit their work
Haley Clancy Inyart, co-director of The In Art Gallery, an online gallery and resource for artists in all ranges of careers to have a platform to exhibit artwork and reach a global audience, will be the subject of a Zoom meeting, Thursday, February 25 at 11 a.m. The...
Alexis Lamb earns scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Alexis C. Lamb, an alumna of the NIU School of Music with bachelor of music degrees in both percussion performance and music education, has been selected as one of six winners of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Lamb studied...
TV’s influence on the work of Jean-Michael Basquiat is the subject of the next Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series
The influence of television on the works of acclaimed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1980s paintings, drawings and music is the subject of the next installment in the NIU School of Art and Design's Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series. "Jean-Michael...
MFA grad Geoffrey Todd Smith featured at Western Exhibitions
Chicago based artist Geoffrey Todd Smith, a 1997 MFA graduate of the NIU School of Art has a solo exhibition currently running at Western Exhibitions, 1709 W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago. Sordid Orchestra is Smith's sixth solo show at Western Exhibitions. The gallery...
Theatre alumna Nicole Upton promoted to managing director of Ingenuity
Nicole Upton, an NIU graduate who earned her bachelor of arts in comprehensive theatre studies from the School of Theatre and Dance has been promoted to managing director of Ingenuity. Ingenuity is an organization founded in 2011 to increase arts education access,...