Tagged: College of Visual and Performing Arts

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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An NIU student reads to Cortland Elementary School second-graders.

Apples all around

NIU teacher-candidates crush mandatory edTPA assessments

  • September 15, 2016
Hey, future teachers! Want a virtual guarantee of acing your mandatory edTPA assessment, something required to gain licensure to teach in Illinois and several other states? Come to NIU. One…

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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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Breeze through finals

Faculty advice, relaxation events help you rock it

  • May 3, 2016
The sun is out, the trees are blooming, people are talking about their summer plans… you are thisclose to the semester’s end. You just have to get through finals. 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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First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir

Come, let us sing

NIU, DeKalb First United Methodist Church create beautiful music together

  • December 16, 2015
An unnatural silence inside the sanctuary of DeKalb’s First United Methodist Church gently gives way to the haunting tones of hand chimes, ringing out a melody that seems familiar. Thirty-three…

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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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IL-CMP workshop participants practice singing vowel sounds with corresponding motions.

The Sweet Sounds of Success

NIU hosts transformational workshop for K-12 music educators

  • July 16, 2015
Jeremy Little, director of choirs at Vernon Hills High School, steps to the front of the spacious rehearsal room. Class is beginning, but it’s not time to sing yet. First,…

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Sara Fitzpatrick

‘You experience so many things’

Museum Studies graduate certificate students live out NIU ‘triangle’

  • June 10, 2015
Michelle Stewart changed her major eight times before discovering her passion. She began her adventure at Harper College, eventually traveling south to study marine biology at Broward College in Florida….

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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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