Art Education Meet and Greet | Thursday 26th @ 4:45pm
Meet and mingle with the art education staff and your peers and you start or continue your journey as an Art Education Major. This is a way to make meaningful connections and will benifit your overall sucesses in this major as well as the field.
Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay | February 12-27th Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay is the most highly respected of all the living Tz'utuhil Mayan artists of Guatemala. He paints more carefully than any of the other Tz'utuhil artists, and his output is small—perhaps ten paintings a year. Even his small paintings, which take three to seven days to paint, are museum quality. The rich colors of early morning and late evening which he prefers distinguish him from other Tz'utuhil painters.
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Paula Nicho Cumez | February 12-27thPaula Nicho Cumez is unquestionably the most important living Maya woman artist in Guatemala today. She began as a weaver, and learned to paint from her husband Salvador Cumez Curruchich. Her themes are among the most original of any of the Maya artists. She often paints themes that come to her through her dreams. Paula revisits many of her best themes. With experience her skill in applying paint to the canvas has increased so that the quality of her recent paintings is exceptional.
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National Convention 2017This years convention is in New York!
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Kim Cosier | April 24-28th 2017Kim Cosier is a Professor of Art Education and Associate Dean of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She believes in the power of art to create change in community and sees works of the imagination as central to building a better world.
Her research interests focus on the use of art and education for social justice, particularly related to intersecting cultural and social factors including gender, race, sexuality, and class. She worked with a small team of editors from Rethinking Schools to publish the book Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. The book won an award from Skipping Stones, an international multicultural literary magazine and has garnered praise from parents and teachers alike. |
May 5 & 6, 2017 | Save The Date!
Presented by NIU and the City of DeKalb, ARTigras is a Celebration of the Arts—both in the DeKalb community as well as on the NIU campus. The event will consist of an arts parade, a post-parade party featuring music, crafts and games, Art Gallery shows and receptions, evening concerts and…new this year…an opening night “March to Bourbon Street” event at the Egyptian Theater featuring dance and theatrical performances, live music and an art exhibit. Area residents, NIU students and employees, and all arts enthusiasts are encouraged to participate!
Presented by NIU and the City of DeKalb, ARTigras is a Celebration of the Arts—both in the DeKalb community as well as on the NIU campus. The event will consist of an arts parade, a post-parade party featuring music, crafts and games, Art Gallery shows and receptions, evening concerts and…new this year…an opening night “March to Bourbon Street” event at the Egyptian Theater featuring dance and theatrical performances, live music and an art exhibit. Area residents, NIU students and employees, and all arts enthusiasts are encouraged to participate!