During the three years the NIU Art Museum's main gallery in DeKalb is shut down for major renovations, the Art Museum is planning various art endeavors with and in the greater DeKalb community. All of these off-campus ventures will be conceived, developed and installed in alliance with local community groups and organizations and are aimed at building community allies and audiences. Our goal is to work in close collaboration with artists and the community to enliven public spaces in and around the DeKalb area by placing meaningful artworks in business districts, parks, lobbies, store windows, parking lots, libraries, hospitals, health centers, community centers and other spaces of daily life. An exhibition and fundraising auction for the NIU Art Gallery in Chicago and NIU Art Museum in DeKalb. Approximately fifty Chicago-area artists will be invited to compose a work of art on rolls of drawing paper that will temporarily be hung on the gallery walls.
Gallery is open to the public while the artists work.
A former Chicagoan and NIU alumni, Prina, whose work has been exhibited in both the Carnegie International and Documenta, is internationally recognized for his conceptual installations. Work of graduating MFA recepients from the NIU School of Art. This new body of work was created during her recent artist's residency at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. This series encompasses the artist's seven-year examination of the forms and spaces in which desert flora is presented in indoor displays of civic, institutional, and private collections of arid plants in places where these plants would not survive if they were not protected. Artist will conduct a gallery talk Saturday, October 14th at 2 p.m. that will be open to the public.