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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Steelpan in Education book review
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Steelpan in Education book review

8 Feb
NIU hosts community college art exhibition Feb 9 – 23
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NIU hosts community college art exhibition Feb 9 – 23

30 Jan
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet in concert Jan. 30
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NIU’s Avalon String Quartet in concert Jan. 30

29 Jan
School of Music’s Clarinet Cornucopia festival Feb. 17
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School of Music’s Clarinet Cornucopia festival Feb. 17

18 Jan
School of Music hosts Winter Horn Fest, Feb. 2
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School of Music hosts Winter Horn Fest, Feb. 2

20 Dec
Life drawing models needed for spring art classes
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Life drawing models needed for spring art classes

8 Dec
NIU presents “Double Duty: An Improv Experience”
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NIU presents “Double Duty: An Improv Experience”

30 Nov

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