Northern Illinois University College of Visual and Performing Arts

06/01/2026

NIU celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month and our ongoing, year-round commitment to allyship and belonging. Thank you to our campus community for your support!
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04/16/2026

On Friday night, the NIU Wind Ensemble will perform a rather unique, challenging and fun piece of music.

On Friday night, April 17 at 7 p.m. the combined NIU Wind Ensemble and NIU Wind Symphony will perform in concert in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. One of the pieces they will be performing is famous for being a little unconventional. NIU Professor of Music and Director of N...

04/01/2026

Our annual day of giving is today! (And part of tomorrow!)

Every year the NIU Foundation hosts a Huskies United Day of Giving which provides key funding to the university, its programs and our talented, hard-working students.

You can give to the university, to the College of Visual and Performing Arts or to individual schools (Art and Design, Music, and Theatre and Dance)

This year's is Wednesday, April 1 – Thursday, April 2, noon-noon. For 24 hours, Huskie Nation will rise to the challenge to unite around the mission, vision and values of NIU, creating impact and forging opportunities for current and future students.

Give today! Any amount helps! https://dog.niu.edu

03/26/2026

You'll never know that you an opera fan until you try it. You have two chances this weekend to see the School of Music's production of "Iphigénia at Aulis", Friday, March 27 at 7 p.m. and Sunday March 30 at 3 p.m. in the Music Building concert hall.

If you are excited about Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" coming out this summer, several of the same characters are in this, too.

As always, NIU students are admitted free of charge with a reserved ticket.

The Northern Illinois University School of Music presents its annual spring opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphigénia en Aulide with performances at 7 p.m., Friday, March 27 and 3 p.m., Sunday, March 29 in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. Tickets are available online. N...

03/26/2026

Don't miss the School of Theatre and Dance's production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" beginning Friday night, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre. Performances run through April 3.

One of Shakespeare’s earliest and most loved works, The Comedy of Errors, opens Friday, March 27 in the Black Box Theatre in NIU’s Stevens Building at 7:30 p.m. The final play, and second to last production, of the School of Theatre and Dance’s 2025-2026 production season, The Comedy of Errors...

03/25/2026

David Syrek, design director of Chicago Magazine and an alum of the NIU School of Art and Design's Visual Communication program will give a visiting artist lecture, Thursday March 26 at 2 p.m. in Jack Arends Hall Room 102. The event is free and open to the public.

03/25/2026

https://niuarts.com/2026/03/niu-faculty-composers-concert-features-world-premiere/. Tonight's NIU Faculty Composers' Concert features the world premiere of "Letters From Norman" by NIU Professor David Maki.

The NIU Composers’ Concert, Wednesday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the NIU Recital Hall features the world premiere of David Maki’s “Letters From Norman” for bass-baritone and piano. The text is drawn from letters written by David’s uncle Norman Maki during World War II. Norman was drafted into ...

02/20/2026

NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present its 5th annual staged reading by Ukrainian playwrights this Sunday at 2:00 PM CST in the O’Connell Theatre (Stevens Building) on NIU’s campus, 200 University Circle Drive, DeKalb.

Students will read I by Hanna Bulatova and Robinson by Vitaliy Chenskiy. The event will also be livestreamed at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/yc25jvhr

We will be accepting donations for the Ukrainian Crisis Relief Fund, and we invite you to give as you are able and to join us in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

02/11/2026

To thank you for using the water bottle filler in the Music Building we're going to have a prize drawing!

Send a photo of the Bottles Saved counter on the bottle filler once it passes 100,000 to [email protected] to enter for an Ollie's Frozen Custard gift card. One entry per person. We'll collect entries for seven days after the first one is received. Good luck, and thank you!

01/29/2026

Get ready to relive the good old days at our SOTD Nostalgia Prom presented by our BFA Acting class of 2026! Join us Saturday, February 7th at 6:00 PM for a night of dancing, laughter, and memories that'll last a lifetime. Link below for more details and to get tickets.

https://shorturl.at/OugSm