The School of Art, with a faculty of more than 60 artists, designers, and scholars, and an enrollment of more than 800 undergraduate and 130 graduate students, is one of the best and most comprehensive public university art schools in the United States... Read More
Exhibition of work by NIU School of Art students receiving BFA degrees with emphasis in ceramics, drawing, fiber, Illustration, metalwork and jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and time arts. Read More
Several privately endowed scholarship grants are also competitively awarded annually by the School or Art through a portfolio competition to students already enrolled in the university who are classified as continuing majors in art. Read More
Visiting Artist Lecture - Yvette Kaiser Smith
Wed. February 04 2009, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Yvette Kaiser Smith makes monumental lace structures that reflect languages of mathematics, architecture, design, and chaos theory, and engage basic underlying principles of human life. Her work employs the use of fiberglass roving which is crocheted and then coated in polyester resin for strength and durability. Kaiser Smith is one of a dozen artists who has work in the exhibition, Crossing Threads/Crossing Boundaries. which opens with a reception at the NIU Art Museum this Thursday, Feb 5, at 4:30-6:00 pm.
Yvette Kaiser Smith will give a public lecture on Wednesday, Feb 4, 12:00-1:00 pm in VAB-Room 111.
ARTLab Salon
Fri. September 11 2009, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ARTLab Salon, an open forum for conversation and collaboration around issues relating to the annual theme of globalism and cultural identity.
Screening: Oregon artist Julie Green's The Big World—interviews with artists working in China, the Netherlands, Tibet, and the United States.