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Tagged: arts

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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Screenshot of a video game designed by a teen artist

The (Video) Game of Life

NIU art education prof guides Chicago teens in video game design

  • August 26, 2015
Many parents shake their heads when they hear stories about what some of the most popular video games glorify. Guns. Violence. Crime. Sex. Misogyny. But what if video games could…

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‘Make the World a Better Place’

NIU STEM Outreach nurtures young minds, shapes future workforce

  • August 13, 2015
Eleven children – five of them girls – sit at tables inside the NIU STEM Outreach headquarters, a space inside Swen Parson Hall that seems more like a rich kid’s…

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Michael Barnes

Long Live the (Printma)King

NIU studio arts professor: ‘Print is nowhere near dead’

  • May 19, 2015
A recent piece in the Huffington Post – “10 Artists, Illustrators And Designers Committed To Keeping Print Alive Around The World” – begins with the words “Print isn’t dead.” The…

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ARTigras

The Art of the Matter

NIU, DeKalb come together for first ARTIgras party

  • May 7, 2015
Picture this: a mobile and colorful feast for the eyes, ears and imagination winding its way from downtown DeKalb to the Visual Arts Building under warm, summery skies May 2….

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