Category: Visual
NIU’s Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will sponsor a screening of “Tony: Lose All, Gain Everything” by Invisible Children. Invisible Children is a social, political, and global movement that uses the transformative power of story to change lives. The documentary tells a story about the hardships faced by children in the war in northern...
Students who enroll in NIU language department professor John Hartmann’s intensive Thai language class quickly overcome their inhibitions about learning an Asian language, even one that is tonal and written in a non-Roman alphabet. There is no textbook to purchase. In its place is SEAsite, an online, media-rich, interactive resource for learning the language and...
DeKalb’s BadDogGallery, 808 E. Garden St., has announced its fall schedule. Events take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays. Sept. 22: Nina Rizzo curates ‘Karen’s Garage’ Sept. 28: GAA Showcase Oct. 6: Katie Kahn curates ‘the painters’ / Rebecca McAnly (solo show) Oct. 13: Kathie Webb curates ‘Yarn Bomb!’ Oct. 20: Ashley Nason curates...
A five-year effort to collect the oral histories of Cambodians who survived the Khmer Rouge era and now live in the Chicago area will culminate this week with an exhibit at the Cambodian American Heritage Museum (CAHM) and Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago. The exhibit resulted from a collaboration between the museum and Northern Illinois...
Philip S. Wells, former associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a professor in the School of Art, died Monday, Sept. 5, at his home in Laconia, N. H. He was 81. Wells joined the art education faculty at NIU in 1968, arriving from Schenectady, N.Y., where he had been head...
Five years ago, two women met on the campus of Northern Illinois University and agreed to join forces — one an accomplished documentary filmmaker, the other a prominent activist on the issue of homelessness. Their plan: to film and produce a documentary on the little-known issue of homeless women and children. Their path would later...
The DeKalb Area Women’s Center will host “Echoing Balance,” a solo exhibition of Siew Lian Lim, in its galleries from Thursday, Sept. 1, through Friday, Oct. 28. An artist’s reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16. Lim is in her final year...
NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery will host “Inked: Tattoo Imagery in Contemporary Art” from Monday, Aug. 29, through Thursday, Oct. 13. Reception and gallery talks are scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. Related programming: Thursday, Sept. 15: Visiting Artist Talk by Jeff Crisman from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26: Visiting Artist...
The NIU Community School of the Arts, sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will offer several classes this fall in art and music. Teachers are faculty and students in the NIU schools of Music and Art. Need scholarships are available for those 18 and younger; the application deadline is Monday, Aug. 29....
The NIU Art Museum will host a fall sculpture exhibition suite from Tuesday, Aug. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 29. An opening reception will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8. The exhibitions celebrate wit, social commentary, process and technique in variously scaled contemporary sculpture. In the House: Sculpture for the Home While...
The NIU Community School of the Arts invites people of all ages to the Music Building Saturday, Aug. 27, for CSA O’Rama. Families are invited to ask questions about the program, sign up for free sample music lessons, learn more about the Suzuki approach and attend sampler classes. All activities are free and open to...
Today’s announcement of a new university logo to accompany the tagline selected in December 2010 – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – completes the research and design phase of NIU’s institutional brand identity. Working hand-in-hand with the “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” tagline, the trademarked logo is the visual component of NIU’s communications efforts to strategically convey...
