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President Peters and Rebecca Houze
Rebecca Houze, associate professor and head of the Art History Division in NIU’s School of Art, is the recipient of the 2012 University Honors Great Professor Award. This university-wide award, which was established in 2001, recognizes a faculty or staff member who has, over time, contributed significantly to honors education at NIU through teaching as...
Photo of a sculpture by Siew Lian Lim
The DeKalb Area Women’s Center will host the group art exhibition “We Work. Art Talks. We Offer.” Curated by Siew Lian Lim, the exhibition will take place from Tuesday, May 1, through Friday, May 25, at 1021 State St. in DeKalb. An opening reception is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 4, and will...
Bernini angel sculpture in Rome
The NIU Art Museum will present “The Medieval Art of Narrative,” an illustrated lecture by Ann van Dijk at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Altgeld Hall 315. In the Middle Ages, narrative art was ubiquitous, appearing in a variety of media and contexts. Painted narratives adorned the pages of books; mosaic narratives graced the...
David Driesbach
David Driesbach, who retired from the NIU School of Art in 1991, has won the 2012 Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council International. Born in Wausau, Wis., in 1922, Driesbach spent his time during World War II as a Marine in the Pacific Theatre. Upon returning state side, he studied painting and printmaking...
Michael Barnes
Printmakers in the NIU School of Art are celebrating a new U.S. News & World Report ranking that places their program in the nation’s top 20. NIU, tied with Syracuse University at No. 19, is one of only two schools on that prestigious honor roll that is neither a private art school nor a flagship...
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...
Photo of onion soup and bread
The 14th annual “Empty Bowls” project is scheduled for Friday, March 23. Reservations are recommended for either of the two seatings at 4:30 and 6 p.m. in the Chandelier Room, 143 Adams Hall. The menu includes chicken noodle soup, broccoli-cheddar soup, minestrone soup and chunky pizza soup, a tomato-based concoction with cheese, pepperoni and mushrooms....
Kerry Freedman
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....
Free At Last! book cover
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....
Richard Beard
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...
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....
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