Category: Visual and Performing Arts
The NIU Music Building will resound with music and excitement Saturday, March 10, as the NIU Community School of the Arts presents its 10th Performathon. All funds raised are used for arts scholarships for young people in the community. Featuring around 75 musicians of all ages, the Performathon is the community school’s major fundraising event....
NIU’s fifth annual Assessment Expo is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to noon Friday, March 2, in the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. The Assessment Expo is designed to highlight successful assessment practices on campus. “This expo will be a celebration of the successes of NIU Assessment Services,” said Carolinda Douglass, assistant vice provost for Academic Outcomes and Assessment....
The NIU Philharmonic, under the direction of Lucia Matos, will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Winners of the School of Music Concerto Competition will be featured. Program highlights include: Soprano Moonja Jeong singing “E strano! … Sempre libera” from LaTraviata; Violinist Katelyn Kozinski playing the...
David Wade, a professor in the College of Business’ Department of Management, is completing his third year of service as the Faculty and SPS Personnel Advisor and is ineligible for another term. At its April 25 meeting, the Faculty Senate will elect a new FSPSPA for a two-year term to begin July 1. The FSPSPA...
The NIU School of Music will welcome guest guitarist Brian Torosian to campus Sunday, Feb. 26, for a 5 p.m. performance in the Recital Hall. Torosian, an active soloist and chamber musician on guitar, lute and mandolin, is best known for his work with 19th century guitarist and composer J. K. Mertz. Concert performances include...
The summit of fictitious mountain F6, known by locals as “The Haunted Mountain,” beckons a group of ambitious British citizens in the latest production by NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance. Beginning Thursday, Feb. 23, the school will present the staged production of “The Ascent of F6,” written by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. The...
Jazz stands among America’s greatest art forms, boasting roots in the African-American culture and a foundation in the African tradition. So says Ron Carter, director of jazz studies in the NIU School of Music. Carter, who was named an NIU Board of Trustees Professor in 2009, will host a Board of Trustees Professor Seminar at...
Sinclair Bell, assistant professor of art history, has co-edited a volume on freed slaves in ancient Rome that was published this week. “Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire,” which he co-edited with Teresa Ramsby, was published by Bloomsbury Press in London, and will become available in the United States...
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....
Murder, witchcraft and deception color the dark yet deeply human tragedy, “Macbeth.” Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance will present a new production of the classic drama Thursday, Feb. 16, through Sunday, Feb. 19, in the Stevens Building Corner Theatre. Director Alexander Gelman says the play will challenge the actors and entertain the...
Richard E. Beard, who taught in the NIU School of Art from 1966 until his retirement in 1996, died Monday, Jan. 30, in Sarasota, Fla. He was 83. Beard, who specialized in painting and drawing, won a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship award in 1983. Near the end of his NIU career, he created “Academic Animals,” a...
Northern Illinois University will offer a graduate school preparation seminar Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Yordon Center. This seminar is free and open to all undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate degrees. Check-in begins at 9:30 a.m. The seminar will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This seminar is packed full of valuable information...
