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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...

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 hosts community college art exhibition Feb 9 – 23

Jan 30, 2018

Northern Illinois University’s School of Art and Design is presenting an exhibition of artwork by Illinois community...

NIU’s Avalon String Quartet in concert Jan. 30

Jan 29, 2018

NIU’s world-class Avalon String Quartet will perform works of Shih-Hui Chen, Shostakovich and Beethoven, Tuesday,...

School of Music’s Clarinet Cornucopia festival Feb. 17

Jan 18, 2018

Every year since 2002, the Northern Illinois University School of Music has presented a day-long festival for clarinet...

NIU’s Avalon String Quartet launches season October 3

Sep 28, 2017

Northern Illinois University’s world-class Avalon String Quartet will perform works of Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich and Franz Schubert, Thursday, October 3 at 8 p.m. Admission is free of charge. The concert is the first of four this year for NIU’s...

NIU School of Art and Design hosts art crawl and student art gallery naming

Sep 11, 2017

DeKALB, ILL. – The Northern Illinois University School of Art and Design offers a unique opportunity to see art exhibitions in four university gallery spaces in one evening, and attend the naming of the Student Art Gallery. The progressive art crawl begins at 4:30...

NIU alumna Amber Sallis named “Hot new face of theater” by Chicago Tribune

Sep 6, 2017

DeKALB, ILL. – Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance alumna Amber Sallis, has been named a “Hot New Face of Theatre Class of 2017” by the Chicago Tribune. Sallis most recently appeared in a Steep Theatre production of “Earthquakes in London.” She...

Chicago Sinfonietta opens 30th season with bang of Caribbean sounds, contemporary dance and two world premieres in Trademark

Aug 30, 2017

Featuring Northern Illinois University Steelband and Chicago’s Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, September 16 Symphony Center, Chicago, September 18 Chicago, IL – Chicago Sinfonietta, the nation’s most diverse orchestra, kicks off its...

Reflections: Intimate Portraits of Iconic African Americans by Terrence A. Reese

Aug 30, 2017

DeKalb, IL – This fall the Northern Illinois University Art Museum presents Reflections: Intimate Portraits of Iconic African Americans excerpts from a 20 year project of “documentary-style” black and white photographs capturing the creative collaboration of dialog...

Objectifying the Photograph: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Photography

Aug 29, 2017

DeKalb, IL – This fall the Northern Illinois University Art Museum presents Objectifying the Photograph, a group exhibition of contemporary artists broadening our definition of photography opening Tuesday, August 29 with a public reception September 21 from 5 to 7:30...

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