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Taming Training Balance
“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...
Graphic Novels Exhibition Suite poster
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,...
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....
Cover of "The Essential New | Art Examiner"
“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...
Photo of a paint brush on canvas
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....
Thomas Skomski, Unknown with Priapus, Glass, Water, Steel & Felt, 1992
“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...
Helen and James Merritt
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...
Cover of "The Essential New | Art Examiner"
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...
NIU’s Interdisciplinary Certificate of Graduate Study in Museum Studies continues to receive critical acclaim from the Illinois Association of Museums (IAM). The NIU Art Museum is the recipient of an IAM Award of Excellence for “Music to My Eyes: Musical Instruments as Visual Art.” It is the fourth consecutive year that the Museum Studies/NIU Art...
A work by Jerry Bleem
The NIU Art Museum will host “Archiving Detritus,” a lecture by visiting artist Jerry Bleem at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in Room 315 of Altgeld Hall. Bleem, whose work is currently on view in the exhibition “In The House: Sculpture for the Home” at the NIU Art Museum, is an artist, teacher, writer, Franciscan...
“How can I let families and teachers know about NIU campus activities they would enjoy?” That question from a local educator sparked development of a newsletter that lists educational and cultural enrichment activities on the DeKalb campus that are appropriate for professional educators and for families. The Center for P-20 Engagement is distributing this calendar...
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...
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