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University of Chicago; Frances This exhibition was co-curated by Whitehead, SAIC, (NIU alumna); NIU Art Museum staff with guest Kalina Winska, Valdosta State, GA; curator, Professor Richard Yamin Xu, Northern Illinois University, Siegesmund, Professor of Art+Design (NIU Graduate student); Samuel Education in the NIU School of Art Yates, Rhode Island School of and Design. Siegesmund has an Design.▪ interest in both quantitative and

qualitative research, and the design Images top to bottom: Kalina Winska. Gas Clouds of data reports that promote Above and Between Us (Potential Plan of Action, thoughtful public reflection and Zone II), 2018. Graphite, acrylic paint, and gesso on wood panel, (36 x 48 in.). Stephen Cartwright. Mesh discussion. (Human Powered Outdoor Activity 2015), 2018. Acrylic, hardware (24 x 107 x75 in.). Anne J. Lindberg. Paper Forest, 2014. Graphite on paper. Exhibiting artists include: Christopher (individually framed 10 x 10 in.). Courtesy the artists.

Live Dance Performances then performed their kinetic interpretations inspired by the visual In the last week of the Transparent art to the delight of visitors during a Factors in Form and Content series of three recitals in the exhibition, the NIU Art Museum galleries. Students included hosted advanced dance students Alexsandra Rockman, Jordan from the NIU School of Theatre and Murphy, Lance Gasher, Matt Dance presenting live Skorupski and Brenda Sifuentes. improvisational work in the galleries. If you missed this performance, The students of Paula Frasz and additional events are scheduled for Judith Chitwood toured the gallery the DATA Exhibition Suite. See our with Museum Assistant Director Peter events calendar for details.▪ Olson, selected artwork to which they personally responded as well as music (or silence) to choreograph their individual improvisational dance. The students

Left, Brenda Sifuentes’s dance choreography was inspired by Stephanie McMahon’s paintings with their vibrant colors and graceful lines contrasted Sign up for the Arts Blog with Nicole Lenzi's geometric black and white http://niuarts.com/newsletter-opt-in/ photographs (not pictured). Staff Announcements / Related Events 3.

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Jo Burke, Director Museum Assistant Ari Norris’s work has Peter Olson, Assistant Director been accepted into the 5th Stuart Henn, Marketing and Education International Exhibition on Millicent Kennedy, Installer Conceptual Art at the Czong Institute Christina Warzecha, Installer for Contemporary Art Museum (CICA) in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Graduate Assistants The exhibition will take place summer 2019. Zach Bath Christina Kang Assistant Director Peter Olson’s prints Museum Assistants and drawings can Isabel Angulo be seen in the Georgi Beck exhibition A Avery LaPlante Catalogue of Ari Norris Obsessions at the Elgin Public Sai Harini Perugupalli Museum (EPM) in Elizabeth Russo Lord’s Park, Elgin, Yamaira Janel Velez IL. The exhibit traces the arc of Exhibition Advisory Olson’s flirtation Committee with natural Michael Bennett history: in the wild, Mary-Glynn Boies in museums and Alexandra Giza on the pages of antique textbooks. Destiny McDonald The Neo-classical Nina Rizzo building at the Peter Van Ael EPM was originally Yamaira Janel Velez built to house the natural history collection of Mr. and Education Advisory Mrs. G. P. Lord. Peter’s show Committee acknowledges the setting of the Joshua Anderson natural history museum by including Only have a few Cynthia Hellyer-Heinz 19th century illustrations (by the likes of Georges Cuvier and John James Kryssi Staikidis minutes to spare? Audubon). “These illustrations have been a great inspiration to me. To Drop-in and join us for a quick talk! Visit niu.edu/artmuseum exhibit my work alongside them, in a Phone: 815-753-1936 Email: [email protected] setting where they are also surrounded by fossils, shells, neo- Receive our email updates by classical architecture and taxidermy visiting our website: www.niu.edu/ specimens is a dream come true.” artmuseum/about/subscribe.shtml Museum Assistant Elizabeth Russo’s Friend us on Facebook design was selected for the 5th annual ARTigras! event and will be

Follow us on Twitter featured on the poster and event @NIUArtmuseum announcements. Congrats! Be in the galleries during selected times to hear a two to five-minute Flash Tour with Museum staff Welcome Yamaira Velez! Velez Parking is available in the as they give insider explanations into a single Visitor Pay Lot located at 200 Carroll joined the NIU Art Museum as a Avenue. Limited metered and Gallery Assistant in January after work on view. Look for the logo label in the accessible parking spaces are being referred by alumna Michelle galleries at these Flash Tour times starting April 2. available in front of Lowden Hall with Ramirez, a former Museum Assistant. Tuesday 2:30 p.m. accessible aisles and route to Altgeld. Velez is a freshman business and Campus parking is free on weekends Wednesday 3:30 p.m. marketing student at NIU this year. and after 5 p.m. weeknights. Thursday 12:30 p.m. She worked for Ramirez as a summer To request disability-related arts camp counselor for the Thursday 5:15 p.m.* *Except during other scheduled Museum events. accommodations for museum McCormick YMCA of Chicago programs, please contact the leading arts and crafts and museum one week in advance. recreational activities for children. ▪ Northern Illinois University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Images: Peter Olson. The Kraken, 2008. Lithograph institution. for the book On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma, 2008. Nandu, 2008. Colored pencil illustration for a children’s book by Brian “Fox” Ellis, 2008. 4. Calendar

Thursday, March 28 Thursday, May 2 Public Reception When Data has a Personality: 5-8 p.m., Art Museum Chatbots and Robots Emeritus professor of history, Thursday, March 28 Stephen Haliczer explores the Informal Talks by Exhibiting Artists in actual and potential expression of the Gallery human-like forms of excessive starting at 6:30 p.m. compulsive behavior in chatbots and robots. Tuesday, April 2 5:05-6 p.m., Altgeld 125 BIG, -driven, Visualized Curator’s Informal Gallery Talk Saturday, May 4 Richard Siegesmund, Professor of Open for ARTIGRAS! Art Education+Design 3-7 p.m. 5:10-6:30 p.m., Art Museum Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 11 Friday, May 10 at 12:10 p.m. Computer Science on the Chicago DATA: What Really Counts? Streets: Conversations on Data Featuring dance students of NIU Related Events continued...

Visualization School of Theatre and Dance, The exhibition Expressions of Defiance Curator Richard Siegesmund students respond to and interpret with artists from the Jewish Artists moderates a discussion with artwork in the gallery through Collective-Chicago will also be on Michael Papka, Professor of performance. display in the Reynolds Whitney Computer Science and Joe Insley, Art Museum galleries Gallery in the NIU School of Music. Assistant Professor of Design talking The works on view address the about their Argonne National Lab timeless theme of the arts as a response to oppression, and also to research and its visualization the humanizing and life-giving power among other things. of making art in inhuman 5:05-6 p.m., Altgeld 125 circumstances. 1,895-minute “digital pep rally” Participating artists include: Sylvia Alotta, Sunday, April 14 Make a gift to an area of Gabriella Boros, Susan Dickman, Berit Spreading Ideas about Data Engen, Jonathan Franklin, Alan campus that is important to you: Hobscheid, Ellen Holtzblatt, Judith Joseph, Richard Siegesmund, Professor of Make a Gift to the Art Museum! Carol Neiger, Dimitri Pavlotsky. Art Education+Design and Stuart W. Bent by Martin Sherman is a Henn, Museum Education Beginning at 4:25 p.m. on May 7 you collaborative project between Coordinator examine several Data can give online at dog.niu.edu or by phone 877-GIV-2-NIU. Northern Illinois University’s College of related TED Talks and other Visual & Performing Arts, The recorded presentations. Graduate School, Gender/Sexuality 1-3 p.m., Altgeld 125 Resource Center, School of Theatre Related CVPA Events and Dance, School of Music and

Tuesday, April 16 The Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín School of Art and Design. The play Floating Data concert is Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. in brings awareness to the persecution Artist’s Talk, Stephen Cartwright, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The of homosexuals during the Holocaust, as it follows one man’s journey with Associate Professor, Sculpture and performance tells the story of the being able to find his own identity as Foundations, University of Illinois courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp a gay man during this terrible time. Urbana Champaign (Terezín) during World War II who Performances are May 2, 3, 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the 5:05-6 p.m., Altgeld 125 performed Verdi’s Requim. Corner Theatre, Stevens Building. Tickets $5 More information can be found online at students/$10 Adults available at the door. https://niuarts.com/2019/03/school-of-music Posters, programs and set pieces designed by School of Art and Design students along with -to-present-defiant-requiem-verdi-at-terezin- accompanying pop-up exhibition. april-28/

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Monday, April 15 The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Spertus Institute In relation to the NIU School of Music’s presentation of the Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín concert and the Jewish Artists Collective- Chicago’s exhibition at NIU, the NIU Art Museum will visit the Holocaust Museum in Skokie for a docent-led guided tour of the permanent exhibition. The tour seamlessly weaves survivor narratives, personal belongings, photographs, and videos into a moving and responsive experience. At the time of reservation, if you would like to view the free survivor holographic performance at 4 p.m. please let us know to reserve your seat. We’ll also visit the Spertus Institute’s exhibition, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, with original illustrations by cartoonist Ken Krimstein. Enjoy lunch at family-owned Kaufman’s Delicatessen in Skokie for their signature deli sandwiches with in-house smoked pastrami or other menu favorites. Limited to 15 participants. RSVP by 04/08/19. Departure 9:45 a.m. Expected Return 7 p.m. Price: NIU Art Museum Members $55; Non-Member St/Sr $60; Non-Member Adult $65. Ticket price includes guided tour and transportation. Meals and incidentals not included.

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Sunday, June 2 Members-only Bus Trip! Not a member? Then, call to join today! Rembrandt and Manet: Two Masters Join us for this exclusive, NIU Art Museum Members-only excursion to view two wonderful exhibitions at the Art Institute with traveling works by Rembrandt and Manet. Rembrandt Portraits examines Rembrandt’s complex approach to portraiture- his constructed identities, lighting, ambiguous settings, and self-portraits with work on loan from the Norton Simon Foundation. The second exhibition, Manet and Modern Beauty—the first Art Institute exhibition devoted to Manet in over 50 years—suggests that he unapologetically embraced beauty and visual pleasure as well as modernity and fashionable femininity. Take time to explore the Art Institute’s collection, enjoy lunch in the Museum Café courtyard. RSVP by 05/29/19. Departure 10 a.m. Expected Return 7 p.m. Price: NIU Art Museum Members $20; Join today! NIU Art Museum Membership: Individual $25 / Dual $45 / Student $10 / Senior $15 / Dual Senior $25. Ticket price includes transportation. AIC Admission on your own (AIC Members free; IL residents $22 Adults; $16 St/Sr). Meals and incidentals not included.

Right top to bottom: Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center’s permanent exhibition; the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky; Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669). Self-Portrait, about 1636–38. The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, California; Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883). Jeanne (Spring), 1881. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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Collection Spotlight the individual subjects listed on the monochromatic use of color in Berry two axes of the grid with an Plant Rating / Planet Rating creates Image page 8. Categories and rankings: two things extremely simple comparative a muted composition of repetitive that make up the subject of rubric of “+”, “-“, or “=” and records values that seen from a distance Michael Banicki’s major body of his individual assessments and obscures the true informative nature work in his “rating” paintings reveal decisions. But the viewer, however; of the work. The simple compositions the artist’s personal evaluations of without the criteria used to make of repetitive marks on a grid are common ordinary objects. Banicki’s the ratings is left to struggle with rhythmic and reminiscent of drawings and paintings resemble Banicki’s simple rankings alone. The modernist Piet Mondrian’s non- informational graphs or charts but viewer can draw references to objective paintings or minimalist record his personal, subjective other such subjective informational Agnes Martin’s compositions. One judgments of categorical lists that data systems or appraisals as well as must get close to Banicki’s work to range from berry plants, mosses, their own personal process of understand the complex narrative farm tractors, German cities, fowl, to preference making. His paintings of comparison relayed in the chart topping musicians. reveal complex hierarchies, some meticulous visual message of the banal – some based on color-coded marks. Once drawn in, In the Museum’s piece for example sophisticated style, taste, or the viewer realizes the vast amount Banicki rates berry plants and knowledge. of information conveyed through planets in the same work. It Banicki’s limited palette choice or the deceivingly simplistic grid. ▪ illuminates a relationship between Continued page 8. BECOME A FRIEND! Engage and benefit from a closer connection with the arts! Enjoy early-bird announcements, discounts, and members’ only events. Take satisfaction in your vital commitment to support our exhibitions, programs and the preservation of our collection. Join Now! If you are already a current member, please share this form with a friend. Thank you.

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