NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

GOAL ONE

Diversify curricula to be more inclusive and to recognize the artistic, educational and scholarly contributions of groups that have historically been under-represented in higher arts education.

Schools share strategies to broaden course content

Identify quality repertoire, literature and scholarship from outside western Europen tradition

Identify BiPoC guest artists/speakers to share work at NIU

Provide faculty development and instructional design resources for update to courses

Infuse courses with expanded repertoire, literature and scholarship

Incentivize faculty curriculum innovation efforts

Actions Taken To Date

Objective One

Expand curriculum focus to include more artistic styles and scholarship from outside of the western European tradition

  • Scaffolded Assistance Project to provide faculty development and instructional design resources to assist in updating their courses
  • Aural skills repertoire to infuse courses with expanded repertoire, literature and scholarship

 

  • Art History: ARTH Forming Identities in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • ART 292 Art and Design Since 1900
  • (Sarah Evans, associate professor of Art History) “I teach Global Moderns and Contemporaries, which studies art from around the world. I teach a class called Forming Identities in Modern and Contemporary art, which teaches art that is about the entire spectrum of identities against which our culture discriminates. This includes Black and Latino and Indigenous art as well as works addressing gender, including trans identity, race, ethnicity, age, ability, sexuality, and hybridity. In ARTH292 I teach Africobra, part of the Black Arts Movement. For our class on Manet’s Olympia we discuss critics’ inability to see and interpret the presence of the black maid.”

 

Submit accomplishments and status updates

You may submit information about the progress and accomplishments towards the goals and objectives of this plan by e-mailing Donee Spizzirri, assistant to the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.