Category: Visual
In conjunction with the current Graphic Novel Exhibition Suite, the NIU Art Museum has announced two new exhibitions opening with a reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 5, and several upcoming events. The Golden Age of Wordless Novels and Artist Illustrated Books, 1917-1951, explores a peak revival period of relief printmaking which enabled...
The NIU Art Museum will present “The Medieval Art of Narrative,” an illustrated lecture by Ann van Dijk at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Altgeld Hall 315. In the Middle Ages, narrative art was ubiquitous, appearing in a variety of media and contexts. Painted narratives adorned the pages of books; mosaic narratives graced the...
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival at the Jameson Auditorium, located inside the university’s newly renovated Cole Hall. Free and open to the public, the 11th annual festival will feature student-film screenings from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, and...
Esteemed art historian Kristina Wilson will visit NIU to speak at 5 p.m. Monday, April 2, in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building. In a presentation titled, “Overwhelmed: Salon-Style Picture Hangs and the Limits of our Historical Imagination,” Wilson will discuss modern exhibition practices in American art museums. All are welcome. Wilson, an associate professor...
David Driesbach, who retired from the NIU School of Art in 1991, has won the 2012 Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council International. Born in Wausau, Wis., in 1922, Driesbach spent his time during World War II as a Marine in the Pacific Theatre. Upon returning state side, he studied painting and printmaking...
Printmakers in the NIU School of Art are celebrating a new U.S. News & World Report ranking that places their program in the nation’s top 20. NIU, tied with Syracuse University at No. 19, is one of only two schools on that prestigious honor roll that is neither a private art school nor a flagship...
NIU’s second annual Latino Film Festival returns March 27. Organizers will screen three films. First on the docket is the award-winning documentary “Maquilapolis: City of Factories,” which will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Room 121 of the Latino Center, 515 Garden Road. The Spanish-language film examines the struggle of two women to...
The Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb will host the Tournées Film Festival, a showcase of contemporary European cinema, from Sunday, March 25, through Thursday, March 29. Organized by the Northern Illinois University Film Society, the event is supported by grants from the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the NIU College of Liberal Arts and...
When one door closes, another one opens. Laura Vazquez, an associate professor in the Department of Communication in the NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was reminded of this adage when she received an email in February from a colleague. Ned Eckhardt, professor of radio, television and film at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.,...
“Taming Training Balance,” the traveling solo exhibition of the works of Siew Lian Lim, will be presented in DeKalb, Chicago, Aurora and St. Charles during the months of March, April and May. Lim is in her third year at NIU, where she is an MFA candidate in sculpture. In addition to her studio work, she...
The NIU Art Museum will host “Graphic Novel Realism: Backstage at the Comics” from Tuesday, March 20, through Friday, May 25, in the Altgeld Galleries. Guest-curated by Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist, artist and former co-editor of Raw, Paul Karasik, “Graphic Novel Realism: Backstage at the Comics” features the work of contemporary cutting-edge creators of non-traditional,...
The 14th annual “Empty Bowls” project is scheduled for Friday, March 23. Reservations are recommended for either of the two seatings at 4:30 and 6 p.m. in the Chandelier Room, 143 Adams Hall. The menu includes chicken noodle soup, broccoli-cheddar soup, minestrone soup and chunky pizza soup, a tomato-based concoction with cheese, pepperoni and mushrooms....
