Northern Illinois University
Art Museum
College of Visual and Performing Arts

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Press Releases

• NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial, 2020 (PDF)

In the news: NIU Art Museum opens School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial. December 17, 2019.

• Exploring Aspects of War In and Through the Visual Arts (PDF)

In the news: NIU Museum Examines War Through The Eyes Of Art by Guy Stephens, WNIJ. September 12, 2019.

• Data Exhibition Suite (PDF)
• Transparency Suite (PDF)
• SWEET, Golden and Delicious and Imagery and Icons  (PDF)
• Reclaimed Baggage  (PDF)
• All We are Breaking are Stones (PDF)
• NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial, 2018 (PDF)
• Objectifying the Photograph  (PDF)
• Reflections: Intimate Portraits of Iconic African Americans  (PDF)
• Hand in Hand exhibition suite  (PDF) 
• Regina Jose Galindo's Visit  (PDF)
• (RE)PRESENTING GUATEMALA exhibition suite  (PDF)
• Kaleidoscope of Burmese Art  (PDF)
• Art Deco exhibition suite  (PDF)
• NIU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial, 2016 (PDF)
• Guns and Consequences: Voices of Poets Addressing Gun Violence  (PDF)
• 2015 Annual IAM Awards  (PDF)
• Embarrassment of Riches  (PDF)

In the news: NIU Museum, Institute Deliver Environmental Message Wrapped In Art by Guy Stephens, WNIJ. September 24, 2015. 

• Unloaded  (PDF)

In the news: Art Exhibit Examines Our Troubled Relationship With Guns by Guy Stephens, WNIJ. October 8, 2015.

• Film Screening and Discussion of Kurosawa's Throne of Blood  (PDF)
• Sarah Evans' "The Afterlife of Appropriation" Lecture  (PDF)
• Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi  (PDF)
• Amerimanga! Convention and Expression  (PDF)
• Local Visions: Selections From Area Collections  (PDF)

Archived Press Releases

Museum Notes Member Newsletters

• Winter 2020 (PDF)
• Fall 2019 (PDF)
• Spring 2019 (PDF)
• Winter 2018 (PDF)
• Fall 2018 (PDF)
• Spring 2018 (PDF)
• Winter 2018 (PDF)
• Fall 2017 (PDF)
• Spring 2017 (PDF)
• Winter 2016-2017 (PDF)
• Fall 2016 (PDF)
• Spring 2016 (PDF)
• Fall 2015 (PDF)
• Spring 2015 (PDF)
• Winter 2014-2015 (PDF)
• Summer 2014 (PDF)
• Winter 2014 (PDF)
• Fall 2013 (PDF)
• Summer 2013 (PDF)
• Winter 2012-2013 (PDF)
• Fall 2012 (PDF)
• Summer 2012 (PDF)
• Winter 2011-2012 (PDF)
• Spring 2010 (PDF)
• Summer 2009 (PDF)
• Winter 2009 (PDF)

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Awards

• IAM 2018 Award of Merit in the Exhibition category for Across Time and Space: Cultural Perseverance of Indian Heritage
• IAM 2017 Award of Merit in the Exhibit category for “What a Frightful Spectacle!”: Lithographs of Honoré Daumier
• IAM 2016 Award of Excellence in the Exhibit category for Embarrassment of Riches.
• IAM 2015 Award of Excellence in the Exhibit category for Local Visions: Selections from Area Collections.
• IAM 2014 Graduate Student of the Year recipient, NIU student Alison Balcanoff Bastian
• IAM announcement for Exhibition Award of Excellence for Looting, Hoarding, Collecting...Repatriation and Museums
• IAM announcement for Exhibition Award of Excellence for On Watching and Being Seen
• IAM 2013 Museum Studies Graduate Student of the Year recipient, NIU student Ashlee Craig
• IAM announcement for Exhibition Award of Excellence for Vice and Virtue
• IAM announcement for Exhibition Award of Excellence for Mapping: Measuring Across Place and Period
• IAM Newsletter announcing Exhibition Award for Music to My Eyes
• DCCF Grant awarded for collaboration on Dahlstrum WPA Mural research.
• Illinois Association of Museums (IAM) Award letters for 2009 Exhibitions Belief Made Tangible & Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing.
• Press Release for NIU Art Museum/Museum Studies Program Awards.
• IAM Award for Belief Made Tangible
• IAM Award for Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing

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