Art Ed professor Kerry Freedman wins grant
Kerry Freedman Kerry Freedman, professor and head of the Art Education division in the NIU School of Art, recently was awarded a grant from the National Art Education Foundation to continue her work...
View ArticleNIU mourns retired CVPA associate dean Wells
Philip S. Wells Philip S. Wells, former associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a professor in the School of Art, died Monday, Sept. 5, at his home in Laconia, N. H. He was 81....
View ArticleSTEMfest 2011: ‘Everything is cool’
As the last of STEMfest’s 4,000 participants trickled out of the Convocation Center Oct. 22, they were still buzzing with the day’s excitement. “The lasers are cool! The static electricity is cool!”...
View ArticleArt’s Kerry Freedman wins national award
Kerry Freedman Kerry Freedman, head of the Division of Art and Design Education in the NIU School of Art, is the 2012 recipient of the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award from the National Art Education...
View ArticleNIU art education students compare cultures with Taiwanese counterparts via...
Although NIU School of Art professor Kerry Freedman is on a one-month residency in Taipei, there was no distance great enough to keep her from her students in DeKalb. On Monday, Oct. 8, School of Art...
View ArticleGallery exhibition features retired art professor
“Focusing” by Carmen Armstrong NIU and the DeKalb Area Women’s Center connect again through an August 2013 fine arts exhibition at the DAWC galleries showcasing figurative paintings by NIU School of...
View ArticleArt Education professor wins national honor
Kryssi Staikidis Kryssi Staikidis, associate professor of art education in the NIU School of Art, has received the 2014 Western Region Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award from the National...
View ArticleAn international language: art education faculty stay busy globally
Richard Siegesmund Several art education faculty members and doctoral students in the NIU School of Art and Design have been busy internationally over the past few months. Professor Richard Siegesmund...
View ArticleSchool of Art and Design’s Freedman named Higher Art Educator of the Year
Kerry Freedman Kerry Freedman, professor of art and education in the NIU School of Art and Design, enjoys those “a-ha” moments – those moments when complex understanding strikes students in her...
View ArticleNIU’s Boughton named Illinois Higher Art Educator of the Year
Doug Boughton NIU’s Doug Boughton, a world leader in the advocacy of “visual culture” curriculum for art education, has been named the 2015 Illinois Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. The...
View ArticleThree online classes in art education offered to grad students
NIU’s School of Art and Design is offering three upcoming online or blended courses for graduate and doctoral students. July 11 to Aug. 7 ARTE 685: Research Readings in Art Education M/Tu/W/Th 9 a.m....
View ArticleSchool of Art and Design’s Kerry Freedman wins Lowenfeld Award
Kerry Freedman, professor of art education in the School of Art and Design at NIU, was named the winner of the 2018 Lowenfeld Award. The award is granted annually by the National Art Education...
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