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. Opening reception December 4, 4:30-6:00 pm.
Annual juried exhibition of work by current NIU School of Art MFA and MA students. Opening reception and juror's talk November 6, 4:30-6:00 pm.
Mary Ann Papanek-Millers paintings and drawings bombard the viewer with a collection of visual layers. Paralleling time gap experiences, shifting images on the television and computer, flipping through printed pages, traveling through space, her work is generated by images that remain as after-images. Familiar toys recollect stories, songs, and rhymes from childhood then guide the viewer into more complex environmental concerns.
Jin Soo Kim, Htein Lin, Yoonmi Nam, Roger Shimomura, Duat Vu, and Flo Oy Wong, the artists in this exhibition, address the following questions: What are the political, economic, and spiritual forces that drive a person to take up their life and move far away, to a place so utterly unlike home? How is community established in the new land? What changes are wrought when traditional Asian economic, political and spiritual systems, and Western ways, come together, either in the new home or the land of origin? These artists address the causes, conditions, and experiences of traveling eastward toward the West; the impact of Western ways on traditional Asian cultures; the effects these journeys have on the individuals who undertake them; and the cultural, spiritual and political evolution resulting from these dislocations and relocations.
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. Reception: Thursday May 1.
This year's exhibition is juried by Timothy Van Laar, contemporary painter and professor of art at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Awards are generously provided by Blick Art Supplies. Reception and award presentation: Thursday April 3, 4:30-6:30 pm.
A triennial exhibition of work by artists of national and international stature who use print media as a primary form of artistic expression. Reception and gallery talk by Michael Barnes: Thursday March 20, 4:30-6:30 pm.
Media installation by San Francisco based artist Paul Catanese. Reception and artist gallery talk: Thursday January 17, 4:30-6:30 pm.