Category: Visual
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) will present a photographic exploration of Islamic cultures across Southeast Asia in “Islamic Cultures in Reflection,” an exhibit opening at 4 p.m. Monday, March 5, at the Holmes Student Center’s Gallery Lounge. The exhibit will kick off a series of events over the next year planned to mark ...
“Storming the Gates: The Struggle for Access to Higher Education in Illinois,” a powerful documentary which chronicles the ongoing history of blacks and Latinos in Illinois higher education, will screen at NIU. The screening begins at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, inside the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. The film features trailblazers...
Kerry Freedman, head of the Division of Art and Design Education in the NIU School of Art, is the 2012 recipient of the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education Association. The Barkan Award selection is determined by a vote by NAEA peers, and based upon the candidates’ scholarly contributions to the field....
DAYGLOW, “the world’s largest paint party,” will invade DeKalb with a high-energy music, art, dance and paint party at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25. The experience is for fans who are 18 and older. Audience members must show state-issued IDs upon entrance. Doors open at 8 p.m. No coat-check will be available. Ticket holders younger...
A retirement reception is planned from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, for Carlos Granados. Granados, director of the Office of Publications, is retiring after 30 years of service to NIU. He also is an NIU alum, earning his bachelor’s degree in visual communications in 1980. The reception will take place in the University...
NIU’s Art Museum has announced three Get on the Bus trips for the spring. North Shore Excursion Saturday, March 3 Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Mary and Leigh Block Museum at Northwestern University) Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie Bus leaves from the School of Art parking lot at 8:30 a.m....
GradComm and the Northern Star will present “Shooting From the Hip: How Photojournalism is Reaching its Golden Age,” featuring Chicago Tribune staff photographer Scott Strazzante. The event takes place at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, at the Cavan Auditorium (Gabel Hall 126). Strazzante will speak on his 25-year career at Chicago-area newspapers and the changes...
“Re-Examining the New Art Examiner” is a symposium exploring the controversial history and unsettled significance of the most widely read art magazine ever published in Chicago. Born out of seismic cultural shifts in the early 1970s, coming of age in the hyper-inflated art world of the 1980s, and embracing its role as part of the...
Faculty of the NIU School of Art are hosting their Biennial Exhibition through Saturday, Feb. 25, in the NIU Art Museum. Ceramics, design, drawing, fiber, illustration, jewelry, metal work, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, time arts, video and visual communication are featured. School of Art faculty also are presenting research in art education and art history....
“New to the Collection” opens Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the NIU Art Museum. This exhibition showcases several artworks that recently were donated to the NIU Art Museum Collection. Museum administrators currently do not have a separate budget for purchasing artwork and are grateful for the many donations received in recent years. The museum will show...
The NIU Art Museum will present “A Private Haiku: Ceramic Work of Helen Merritt” from Tuesday, Nov. 29, through Friday, Dec. 16. This intimate memorial exhibition features some of the ceramic figurines, wall pieces, monumental vases and simple functional pots that the late Helen Merritt made over the years. “A Private Haiku: Ceramic Work of Helen...
The NIU Art Museum will present “The New Art Examiner, ‘Chicago’s Independent Voice of the Visual Arts,’ 1973-2002,” from Tuesday, Nov. 29, through Saturday, March 10, in the Hall Case Gallery. This didactic exhibition, exploring the history and significance of The New Art Examiner, was curated by NIU professor and art historian Barbara Jaffee. The...