Tag: School of Art
The NIU Art Museum will presents “in/VISIBLE: Hiding in Plain Sight” from Tuesday, Jan. 25, through Friday, March 11. The public is invited to an opening reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday Jan. 27. Artist talks will follow at 6 p.m. in Altgeld 315. “In/VISIBLE: Hiding in Plain Sight” showcases the diverse work of Margot Balboni, Amy...
Sinclair Bell, an assistant professor of art history at NIU, recently was chosen to serve as a “Research Ambassador” to the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), or German Academic Exchange Service, for 2010-2011. The DAAD is a publicly-funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany. Its 14 international offices provide information as well as financial support...
Artist-in-residence Jane Brucker will lecture from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, in Room 103 of the Visual Arts Building. Bruckers’s work can be seen in the show “INsideOUT!” at the NIU Art Museum through Thursday, Dec. 9. She is a painter, sculptor, poet, video and installation artist interested in spiritual issues. In her work,...
Students in NIU’s Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies Program and ART 655 Curatorial Practice are presenting “Tattoo: An American Evolution” through Friday, Nov. 19. The exhibition opened today in Gallery 214 of the Visual Arts Building. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 10 a.m. to noon...
NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery earned top awards at the 2010 Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) conference, held Nov. 3 to Nov. 5 in Naperville. The gallery earned two Superior Achievement Awards tied to the “Crafting Maya Identity” exhibition. The Superior Achievement Awards goes to projects that are a model for the profession and reach a greater audience...
Artist Manuel Pardo will conduct a lecture, a workshop and studio critiques during a three-day residency next week at the NIU School of Art. Pardo’s lecture is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in Room 103 of the Visual Arts Building. He will hold a workshop from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov....
“If you ordered lasagna at a Chinese restaurant, it would look like this.” Such is Jim Phelps‘ description of “Chinet,” a multimedia program to be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, by Shotguns To Daylight, an art duo comprised of Phelps and Bart Woodstrup, music and art professors, respectively. “There are multiple, thick layers of...
Ingrid Rowland, a professor at the University of Notre Dame-Rome School of Architecture, will visit the NIU campus to speak at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, about “Egyptomania in Baroque Rome.” Rowland’s lecture will be held in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by...
“Contemporary Polish Poster in Context: Jakub Stepien aka HAKOBO and Bogna Otto-Wegrzyn” runs through Friday, Oct. 22, at the Jack Olson Gallery. Below is a curatorial statement from guest curator Aleksandra Giza: “Poster art in Poland has chronicled more than a century of social, political and cultural life. There are recognizable stages directly influenced by the two world...
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 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...
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...
