Best in Show and four Jurors’ Choice Awards were announced during the Dec. 1 opening reception of “Stories From My...
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“Stories From My Childhood” exhibition to open at NIU Art Museum
A group show based on a national call for entry, “Stories From My Childhood” explores both dark childhood experiences...
NIU Art Museum to host in-person lectures with award-winning illustrator and author
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum is pleased to present three in-person lectures related to their Children’s...
NIU Art Museum offers ‘flash tours’
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Richard M. Cooler to present “Religion Made Visible: The Traditional Sacred Art of India”
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum and the Interdisciplinary Certification of Graduate Study in Museum Studies program will host a public lecture by Dr. Richard M. Cooler. Cooler, Professor Emeritus and former Director and Curator of the Center for Burma...
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...
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...
NIU Art Museum’s biennial NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition opens Nov. 16
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum opens the biennial School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition on Thursday, November 16, 2017 with a public reception from 5 – 7 p.m. Presented every two years, this invitational show features recent artwork and scholarship...
Visiting Artist Lecture – Letha Wilson, August 28
NIU Photography and the NIU Art Museum, are presenting the exhibition Objectifying the Photograph, August 29 through October 20 at the Art Museum in Altgeld Hall. A visiting artist lecture with Letha Wilson will be held Monday, August 28 in Altgeld Hall 102 at 5:00...