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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...
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...
NIU Jazz Orchestra Concert featuring Fareed Haque, April 12
Join the NIU Jazz Orchestra for its Spring Concert, Thursday, April 12 at 8 p.m. at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building on NIU's main campus in DeKalb. The Jazz Orchestra is directed by Reggie Thomas, and they will be joined by modern guitar virtuoso,...
NIU is where Joe Minoso learned to learn, and how to follow his calling
Brooklyn born actor Joe Minoso has played firefighter Joe Cruz on NBC's hit series Chicago Fire for the past six seasons. He credits his career success to a fateful decision to come to DeKalb to earn his Master of Fine Arts in Acting. "NIU is almost single-handedly...
Expert on Roman monuments shares insights with NIU Art History students
Dr. John Osborne, one of the foremost experts on Roman architecture and monuments was at NIU March 21 and 22 as part of the Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series. Osborne presented the lecture, "The Monuments of Ancient Rome in the Medieval...
All We are Breaking are Stones opens April 6 at the NIU Art Museum
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum opens All We are Breaking are Stones, an exhibition of work by Chicago artist Shaurya Kumar who reflects on loss, destruction, iconoclasm and marginalization. The raw materiality of his installations combined with the...
Steelpan in The Last Jedi influenced by NIU’s Liam Teague
A distinctive part of the soundtrack for Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the steel drum on the music that played during the movie's scenes on the planet of Canto Bight. That influence, it turns out, can be traced back directly to NIU's Liam Teague, Professor of Music...
Art History professor Sinclair Bell to lecture at ISU
School of Art and Design Professor Sinclair Bell is lecturing this spring as part of Illinois State University's Speaker Series. Race and representation in the Roman Empire Sinclair Bell Classical archaeologist and art historian “Race and Representation in the Roman...
Reclaimed Baggage at the NIU Art Museum Navigates Cultural Identity and Migration — On View March 27
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum opens Reclaimed Baggage, a group exhibition of seven South Asian American women artists that reveals layered, complex and powerful expressions of the self and their world. Their work addresses displacement, identity and...
Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History concludes with John Osborne on monuments of ancient Rome
The NIU School of Art and Design's annual Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History series concludes, Wednesday, March 21 at 5 p.m., with John Osborne, emeritus faculty of Carleton University's lecture "The Monuments of Ancient Rome in the Medieval...
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet to perform at Lakeside Arts Park, March 11
NIU's award-winning Avalon String Quartet is performing at Lakeside Arts Park at the Dole, March 11 at 3 p.m. The concert is part of the NIU School of Music Showcase and Guest Performance Series, a series of concerts by NIU groups at Lakeside Arts Park. Tickets for...