NIU Art Museum

As a regional art museum in a university setting, the NIU Art Museum’s exhibition strategy is to balance the challenges of contemporary art with the riches of traditional visual art for a comprehensive examination of visual culture. The NIU Art Museum presents rotating exhibitions from the university’s collections, wo...rk by regional and national contemporary artists, and national traveling exhibitions. The museum pursues its goal of furthering understanding of the visual arts by supplementing exhibits with written educational material, gallery talks, artist lectures, panel discussions, symposia and other related activities.Read More

Fourteen contemporary artists utilize the broad spectrum of the fiber medium - in an array of materials both traditional and unexpected - and a variety of techniques - all of which are unique to fiber - to present ideas, be they formal or conceptual, abstract or representational in their realization. Artists freely cro...ss back and forth over the old divides between genders, high art versus low, 2D versus 3D, and fine art versus craft Curated by Ellen Roth Deutsch. Artists include Renie Breskin Adams, Mary Bero, Ilse Bolle, Judith Brotman, Sun Choi, Cat Chow, Susan Etcoff Fraerman, Christine LoFaso, Danny Mansmith, Darryl Morris, Lindsay Obermeyer, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Sharon Wright and Betsy Youngquist

Exhibition runs through March 6, 2009
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