The NIU Art Museum’s annual “Art to Lend” 2024 selection period is now open for faculty and staff on campus. This...
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Community School receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fund Grant
The NIU Community School of the Arts has received a $2,500 Farny R. Wulitzer Foudation Fund Grant grant from the...
Music’s Bobby Broom to host a new jazz program on WNIJ 89.5
Beginning in June 2024, NIU Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar and Jazz Studies Bobby Broom will host a new original...
NIU hosts virtual commencement ceremonies this weekend
While the COVID-19 pandemic has robbed us of many special moments, Northern Illinois University is determined that the graduating classes of 2020 will get the send-off they deserve. This Saturday and Sunday, the university will host virtual commencement ceremonies to...
Watch the premiere of Michael Barnes’ artist talk on lithography, Dec. 10
Join Michael Barnes, Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design Professor of Art, Head of Printmaking and 2020 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor as he discusses lithography history and historic prints for the NIU Art Museum. The...
Researching the Reverse Glass Painting Tradition Across Buddhist Southeast Asia with Dr. Catherine Raymond
Catherine Raymond, Director of the Center for Burma Studies at NIU and Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design presented an online lecture for the NIU Art Museum, November 19 titled, Researching the Reverse Glass Painting Tradition Across Buddhist...
NIU educator-licensure programs rated highly in inaugural Illinois Preparation Profile report
A first-time report released Dec. 7 by the Illinois State Board of Education gives high marks to Northern Illinois University’s educator-licensure programs. The Illinois Preparation Profile (IPP), called a “continuous improvement and accountability system,” aims to...
CSA Steelband concert live on YouTube, Dec. 5
Enjoy the Community School of the Arts (CSA) Steelband and Friends LIVE CONCERT online this Saturday, December 5 starting at 5:00 pm on YouTube. Under the direction of NIU's Yuko Asada, the CSA Steelband has prepared a fun and uplifting music program for all to enjoy...
Co-writer Mary Holland ’07, stars in Hulu’s acclaimed holiday movie “Happiest Season”
Mary Holland, a 2007 BFA graduate of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is the co-writer and co-star of Hulu's acclaimed new holiday movie, Happiest Season. Holland co-wrote the romantic comedy with Clea DuVall, whom she starred with on HBO's Veep, and the film also...
Watch: Dr. Ellen Winner’s guest lecture, “How Art Works: Five Puzzles”
In her lecture, “How Arts Works: Five Puzzles,” presented to NIU School of Art and Design, November 10, artist and experimental psychologist Dr. Ellen Winner discusses puzzles about the arts that have preoccupied philosophers as well as the general public. Can art be...
Dancing Together Forward: Fall 2020 Dance Concert premieres Nov. 20
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Dancing Together Forward: Fall 2020 Dance Concert with six airings over the next two weeks, premiering Friday, November 20 at 7 p.m. on YouTube. This screen dance was made in collaboration with the dancers and...
Girls and Dolls cast and crew take ‘explore the space’ to new limits
There is a certain satisfaction that can be achieved in finding a solution to a problem that you not only have never faced, but had never anticipated. The cast and crew of the recent production of Girls and Dolls in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance certainly know...