Category: Arts, Music & Culture

Discovering new passions

Student research, artistry, community engagement will be on display at HSC

  • April 11, 2017
The amazing creativity and discoveries of NIU students will be in full bloom this spring during NIU’s eighth annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day. The event will take place from 9...

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Showcase of student films

Latina alum working in film industry will be featured speaker at Reality Bytes festival

  • April 3, 2017
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival at the Jameson Auditorium, located inside the university's  Cole Hall....

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NIU artists travel different paths to greatness

Students have works featured in prestigious show devoted to African-American art

  • February 8, 2017
A pair of art majors from Northern Illinois University are featured in the 2017 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. The show is...

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Marching to her own beat

NIU Student Lincoln Laureate juggles demanding music, biochemistry majors

  • November 10, 2016
If Rebecca Rasmussen, NIU’s newly named Student Lincoln Laureate, marches to her own beat, she certainly keeps a breathless pace. Consider Rasmussen’s rapid accumulation of awards, leadership experiences and remarkable...

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Light up the night

NIU students in Time Arts learn, entertain with ‘projection mapping’

  • May 19, 2016
On a blustery night in May, more than 300 people showed up at the Sycamore Depot (now home to the DeKalb County Community Foundation) for a unique night of art...

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Art and soul

NIU, DeKalb celebrate the arts at second annual ARTIgras

  • May 12, 2016
Grab your beads and forget your troubles: Saturday afternoon unleashed a feast of crazy hats, colorful masks, festive dancers, enormous floating soap bubbles, face painting, rock ’n’ roll music and...

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Something from nothing

NIU theater professor imagines, writes new play for students to stage

  • April 21, 2016
Robert Schneider isn’t sure where – or if – lines are drawn between his lives as a playwright, a teacher and a human being. The creative writing process, it seems,...

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Discovery zone

Amazing student research, artistry, community engagement on display at HSC

  • April 13, 2016
Student engagement in research, artistry and service is a hallmark of the NIU education. And nowhere will that be more evident than at NIU’s seventh annual Undergraduate Research and Artistry...

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Art Deco comes alive

Four exhibits, movies, trips, showcase iconic style

  • April 6, 2016
Perhaps it was our attachment to Chicago's successful Century of Progress in 1933-1934 and its advancement of the Art Deco decorative arts and architecture style. Maybe it was our area's...

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