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“Arranging Nature,” installations composed of insects pinned directly to a wall in repeating patterns which reference both textiles and wallpaper, will open Friday, Jan. 18, at NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery. The exhibition was created by artist Jennifer Angus, a professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “A tension is created by the...
Vice + Virtue poster
In conjunction with its “Vice + Virtue” exhibition, the Northern Illinois University Art Museum has announced additional programming. This exhibition is currently on display in all four galleries of the NIU Art Museum, and will run through Saturday, Feb. 23, with a public reception scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. Supplementary programming...
Community School of the Arts
Visual arts, theater and instrumental jazz are on the summer camp agenda at NIU. These six-day residential camps for junior and senior high school students are scheduled in July. Campers work with faculty, alumni and students and gain a greater appreciation for the life of an artist. Theatre Arts Camp Junior is scheduled July 7 to...
The Last Judgment (1979) by Warrington Colescott
The NIU Art Museum will present “Vice + Virtue,” an exhibition that explores the dynamics of the “deadly sins” and “heavenly virtues” with juxtaposed interpretations from a vast array of visual artists. Curated by NIU Art Museum Assistant Director Peter Olson, “Vice + Virtue” will occupy all four galleries of the NIU Art Museum from...
Mary Quinlan
Mary Quinlan, a professor of art history in the NIU School of Art, has been awarded a full-year fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Quinlan’s fellowship will support the research and writing of a book on Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435-1436 “De pictura” (“On Painting”), and its impact on Renaissance art. Her project is...
Dieter Roelstraete
Dieter Roelstraete, the Manilow Senior Curator at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Chicago, will speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, at NIU. Roelstraete will speak on “Reflections on Contemporary Curatorship” in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building. The talk is free and open to the public. The lecture is sponsored through the...
Professor emeritus and exhibit curator Richard Cooler with some of the objects on display at “Rarely Seen Southeast Asia,” opening Oct. 11 at The Anthropology Museum in Fay-Cooper Cole Hall.
“Rarely Seen Southeast Asia: Art, Artifact, Ephemera,” an exhibition of more than 150 pieces curated by NIU professor emeritus Richard Cooler, will open today at The Anthropology Museum, with a public reception from 4 to 6 p.m. in Fay-Cooper Cole Hall. Drawn from the museum’s collection and private sources, the exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary...
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Although NIU School of Art professor Kerry Freedman is on a one-month residency in Taipei, there was no distance great enough to keep her from her students in DeKalb. On Monday, Oct. 8, School of Art doctoral students and Douglas Boughton, director of the NIU School of Art, gathered around a conference table in the...
Logo for Gallery 214 group show, “What A Long Night It Has Been.”
Maria Dimanshtein and Gallery 214 at NIU will present “What A Long Night It Has Been,” an exhibition of artwork by 21 artists working in a variety of media to address a theme of “the dark times in our lives.” The show is scheduled from Monday, Oct. 15, through Friday, Oct. 19. An artist reception...
NIU’s Interdisciplinary Certificate of Graduate Study in Museum Studies continues to receive critical acclaim from the Illinois Association of Museums (IAM). The Jack Olson Gallery earned an IAM Superior Achievement Award in the exhibitions category for “Inked: Tattoo Imagery in Contemporary Art.” The exhibition was co-curated by Peter Van Ael, Olson Gallery/Museum Studies program coordinator,...
The Arts Converge
NIU’s Jack Olson Gallery is hosting “The Arts Converge: Contemporary Art and Asian Musical Traditions,” a special exhibition that celebrates the creativity of contemporary artists who are working with traditional Asian music, sounds or cultural soundscapes. “The Arts Converge” offers an arena where visual arts media, musical creativity and theatrical performance can merge, the past...
A partial image of John Bukaty print from 2012 Kansas-Missouri basketball game.
Saturday’s Soldier Field Showdown III game between Northern Illinois and Iowa at the historic Chicago stadium will be captured by live painter John Bukaty. The original artwork, which Bukaty will paint from a corner of the field, will be auctioned off on Northern Illinois’ official athletics website, www.NIUHuskies.com, beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1....
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