Peristeronic, meaning “of or relating to pigeons,” may have fallen out of common use, but to the 10 artists in the exhibition opening May 22 at Dittmar Gallery, the term suggests a reverent irreverence. Lucie Paul, one of the featured fourth-year...
bree gant is in her studio in Locy Hall writing. Her words flow horizontally across the page, wrapping left to right down the page. Like movements in a dance sequence, the word order changes slightly with each repetition, creating subtle...
Running from May 16 - June 12, c.a.v.e. out showcases the work of four graduating artists in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University: Victoria Gomez Gil, Ellie Odom, Catie Moore, and Ashley Schultz. This group exhibition...
Truth be told, David Ngene, Jr. '08 never intended to become a liberal arts student. Upon enrolling at Northwestern in 2003, Ngene, a first-generation college student from Houston, set his sights on a degree in mechanical engineering. He envisioned engineering, with...
Associate Professor Mike Cloud, of the Art Theory and Practice Department, has been awarded the inaugural Richard Pousette-Dart Award by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA). The award honors the legacy of artist Richard Pousette-Dart, a first-generation abstract expressionist painter known...
Caroline Kent, Assistant Professor in Weinberg College's Department of Art, Theory, and Practice, was recently awarded The Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize by The Studio Museum in Harlem. According to The Studio Museum in Harlem, “The Wein Prize recognizes and honors...
Department of Art Theory and Practice alumnus Angelo Madsen Minax has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. Minax received his MFA from Northwestern in 2012. Minax is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker, with projects that draw on auto-ethnography to explore chosen...
The 2021 Jeremiah S. and Helen James Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture was delivered by Northwestern Professor and Artist Michael Rakowitz on May 27, 2021. The lecture is titled "Ghosts, Hosts, Monuments, Admonishments, and Substitutes." Watch the lecture below: About Michael...
