Category: Visual
NIU’s Art Museum is pleased to present a “Day of the Dead” artist invitational from Thursday, Oct. 21, through Saturday, Dec. 4. The public is invited to an opening reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21. NIU alumni and student artists have been invited to create Day of the Dead altar pieces in...
NIU’s Art Museum will present “Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women,” a contemporary photography exhibition from Thursday, Oct. 21, through Saturday, Dec. 4. The public is invited to an opening reception at the museum from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21. Carroll will be one of several artists speaking about their work between 6 to 7 p.m. that...
NIU’s Art Museum will present “INsideOUT,” a contemporary conceptual group exhibition metaphorically looking at fashion with all its implications: glamour, charm, distraction, absence, longing, memory, play, gender/class authority and technology/labor issues. The exhibition will be open from Thursday, Oct. 21, through Saturday, Dec. 4. The public is invited to an opening reception from 4:30 to...
NIU’s Art Museum will present “Ghosted Bodies: Fashion, Fine Art and Symbolism,” a lecture by Suzanne Eberle from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in Room 102 of the Visual Arts Building. While the human figure has been a major subject in the history of art, the ghosted body — missing but suggested by empty...
NIU School of Art alumna Deanne Mroz won the grand prize in this summer’s Kindle Commercial Contest, amazon.com has announced. Mroz, who completed her bachelor of fine arts degree in visual communication in May 2005, wins a $15,000 amazon.com gift card. Her winning commercial is online. Mroz has expressed how significant her primary professor, Steve Quinn, was...
ARTLab is an interdisciplinary project initiated by the NIU School of Art investigating the in/visible as its overarching theme for 2010-2011. ARTLab shares an interest in making visible the invisible structures — social, disciplinary, physical, linguistic, conventional, ritual — that shape our experience, including the imperceptible, the subliminal, the imagined, the remembered, the overlooked, the erased,...
In conjunction with the NIU Art Museum exhibition “StAGEs of Transition,” poets and poetry enthusiasts will read their original or favorite poems about aging and stages of life during a poetry recital from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in Altgeld Hall Room 315. To register to read, call (815) 753-1936 or e-mail darntzen@niu.edu....
NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery, housed in the School of Art’s Visual Arts Building, is hosting “Writ Deep,” an exploration of the relationship between craft and text as a unique affinity between forms. Shannon Stratton is the guest curator. Stratton is a writer and curator based in Chicago, where she founded and is current executive and creative...
NIU alumna Frances Whitehead — designist, embedded artist, environmentalist, futurist — is ARTLab’s first guest of the fall season. Whitehead will visit NIU at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 13, in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building to present examples of her inspiring site-specific work, projects that exist at the intersection of public policy, environmental reclamation...
NIU’s Community School of the Arts is offering several classes in art and music this fall. Start your pre-school child on the path of musical knowledge with Musical Tales, a new class offered this fall. The class combines a story with musical activities and meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evenings beginning Sept. 14. Musical Tales...
“The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, a 19th century American journalist and novelist, “and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.” Jackson’s quote — along with several others like it, all in celebration of fall — adorns a wall of the NIU...
NIU’s Art Museum will open four exhibitions Tuesday, Aug. 24. An opening reception for all four is scheduled from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9. Early fall exhibitions examine the melancholy baroque richness of the autumn season through lushness of materials, color harmony and the aging process. “The Autumn Leaves,” an aesthetic, historical and socio-cultural...
