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Avalon String Quartet to perform Narongrit Dhamabutra’s “Quintet For the Spirits of ASEAN”
Narongrit Dhamabutra, a renowned composer and academic will be on campus, Friday, September 12 for a lecture and a...
Burma collection and NIU Printmaking retrospective open in Art Museum galleries August 27
A pair of exhibitions will run concurrently in the galleries of the NIU Art Museum for the coming academic year....
“Local Visions II” and “Americans in Burma: The Art of Collecting” to open at NIU Art Museum
Two exhibitions featuring the collections of objects from local residents and from the Burma Art Collection at NIU are set to open at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum on Thursday, March 30, with a public opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March...
Support the College of Visual and Performing Arts through Huskies United
The Huskies United day of giving is going on until midnight, March 23. Now is your opportunity to join other Huskies in making a gift to keep NIU moving forward. When you make a gift today or tomorrow on the Huskies United website, the College of Visual and Performing...
Art and Design hosts visiting artists week of March 20-24
Two prominent educators and printmakers will be visiting guest artists in the NIU School of Art and Design during the week of March 20. Jeff Sippel, professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, and former education director at the world famous Tamarind...
Jessica Labatte to become director of the School of Art and Design
Jessica Labatte, associate professor and head of the photography department at the NIU School of Art and Design has accepted the position of director of the school effective July 1, 2023. Labatte will succeed Douglas Boughton, PhD, who is completing his three-year...
World record paper snowflake to be exhibited at NIU library, March 20-April 10
On March 29, 2022 students in Jessica Labatte's ARTD 464 Advanced Photography Post Production class set a Guinness World's Record for the largest paper snowflake when they made one that is 44 feet and six inches. It was more than double the previous world record...
Student-faculty concert to feature Joseph Klein’s Canetti-menagerie, March 9
Dr. Joseph Klein, distinguished teaching professor and chair of composition studies at the University of North Texas College of Music will visit the NIU School of Music, March 9-10. Highlighting the visit is a student-faculty concert, Thursday, March 9 at 7 p.m., in...
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 School of Music, is hosting a master class, Thursday, March 23 at 11 a.m. in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. The masterclass...
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 March. Cor Cantiamo is directed by Eric Johnson, professor of music and coordinator of choral activities at NIU. Saturday March 4, Gordon Bennett Hall,...
NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Lauren Yee’s “in a word”
NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present "in a word" by Lauren Yee, directed by Kay Martinovich and Emily Vitrano in the NIU Stevens Building's Sally Stevens Players Theatre, February 24-26 and March 2-4. With evening performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. February...