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Wellness Through Events

The Paw Print

Each week the Division of Student Affairs sends out The Paw Print, which will provide you with updates on key areas and events that you can engage in virtually. An archive of each week's announcement will be kept here. 

Look for the section of this newsletter called Physically Distant, Socially Connected where you will find weekly engagement opportunities to connect to your fellow Wildcats, Chicagoland, and the globe.
 
The division of student affairs is committed to maintaining current connections and establishing new ones as we remain physically apart. Although not in-person, we will continue to offer various programs for the community. You are invited to check your inbox for weekly engagement opportunities, and follow your favorite social media platforms for specific and departmental programs.
 
The Importance of Engaging for Your Wellness

Engaging in stimulating activities outside of the classroom is just as important to support your overall health and wellbeing as attending classes and studying for your exams. Northwestern provides an endless array of engaging events for little or no cost. These opportunities allow for connecting with new people and learning in a way you may not have otherwise.

Every event provides some way to foster an area of your wellbeing whether it’s a movie screening, speaker panel, sporting event, or even Dillo Day! Give yourself the time to enjoy these opportunities. It just may be what sends you on a new path you never could see before.

To see a full listing of Wellness events click here.

 

Apr
28
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

Apr
28
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Apr
28
2023

Take Back The Night - Community Care Day

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Evanston

Help the NU Women's Center close out Take Back The Night Week!  A rejuvenating day aimed to alleviate the stresses of Northwestern's individuals, especially after the events of Take Back The Night Week. Join us for: Yoga Puzzles Board Games Aromatherapy  Arts-n-Crafts Tarot Readings ... and More!

Apr
28
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Apr
28
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Apr
28
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Apr
28
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Chantal Chuba

Apr
28
2023

Mexodus

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Chicago

Inspired by the thousands of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico, rather than looking north, Mexodus uses live looping and hip hop to explore an undertold chapter of the underground railroad and celebrate Black and Brown bodies standing together against oppression. Join us for a workshop presentation of this innovative new American musical!

Apr
28
2023

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Mallory Thompson, conductor; Dylan Hong, soprano saxophone (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner)  Combining the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School with Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Cindy McTee’s Notezart is a fusion of musical time periods. The program continues with the unabashedly optimistic finale to Bernstein’s Candide, “Make Our Garden Grow.” The first half of the program concludes with Nemmers Prize winner William Bolcom’s Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band, featuring soloist Dylan Hong, a 2022 Northwestern Concerto Competition winner. The second half of the program is devoted to two dramatically different American works for winds: the recently discovered Octet for Brasses and Piano by Florence Price, and Aaron Copland’s resplendent Emblems. Cindy McTee, Notezart  Leonard Bernstein (arr. Clare Grundman), “Make Our Garden Grow” William Bolcom, Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Band Florence Price, Octet for Brasses and Piano Aaron Copland, Emblems

Apr
28
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

Apr
29
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

Apr
29
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section C

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

Apr
29
2023

Christopher Yee, piano

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Sylvia Wang  W. A. Mozart, Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475  Igor Stravinsky (arr. Guido Agosti), Three Movements from The Firebird  Robert Schumann, Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
29
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Apr
29
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Apr
29
2023

Beginning Cross-Stitching

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the principles of cross-stitching (supplies, technique, and pattern reading) as well as the endless ways this craft can be customized. This workshop will focus on students reading a cross-stitch pattern and completing a cross-stitch project from beginning to end. We will begin the workshop with an overview of cross-stitching and viewing completed projects and end the workshop by introducing students to the process of creating their own patterns. Instructor: Rebekah Sigman

Apr
29
2023

Enchanted Teapots

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston

This workshop will teach decorative glaze techniques and focus on floral patterns. The instructor will also provide a brief history of teapots. Each student will receive an English style teapot to decorate.  *Supplies provided - 1 English Tea pot, tea caddy.  Glazes and firing are included.  Workshop will have 5 drawings for Teacups and other tea related accessories. Instructor: Debra A. Blade

Apr
29
2023

Urban Biking Tricks and Tips

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston

This hands-on course will teach you how to navigate by bike confidently and safely around town. Students will learn the rules of the road (for bicyclists and motorists driving near bicyclists), how to communicate on the road as a cyclist, and how to safely navigate streets and paths. In addition to bike safety, this course will teach you bike maintenance tips and how to properly fit and adjust a helmet. Bring your bikes and helmets because this is a hands-on and on-bike workshop. *Participants are required to bring their own working bicycle  Instructor: Elizabeth Adamczyk

Apr
29
2023

Eden Stargardt, horn

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Rachel Côté, Molly Kaplan, Alessandra Liebmann, and Ryan Williamson, horn; Kay Kim, piano  James Naigus, Cloudbreak for two horns and fixed media  Cait Nishimura, TUNDRA  Gina Gillie, Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media  Ann Callaway, Four Elements  Alisson Kruusmaa, Songs of a Black Butterfly  James Naigus, Polaris  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
29
2023

Catherine Pace, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Shichao Zhang, piano  Joseph Haydn, “With verdure clad” from The Creation  Gioachino Rossini, Selections from Les soirées musicales  Luigi Arditi, “Il bacio”  Maurice Ravel, Cinq mélodies populaires grecques  Maurice Ravel, “Arrière! Je réchauffe les bons” from L’enfant et les sortilèges  Richard Strauss, “Allerseelen” from Acht Gedichte aus “Letztze Blätter,” Op. 10  Richard Strauss, Selections from Vier letzte Lieder, Op. 27  W. A. Mozart, “Ach, ich fühl’s” from Die Zauberflöte, K. 620  Florence Price, “The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face”  Florence Price, “Night”  Florence Price, “The Moon Bridge”  Florence Price, “An April Day”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
29
2023

Sam Krausz, tenor

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Nathan Savant, baritone; Karina Kontorovitch, piano  Franz Schubert, “Der Musensohn,” D. 764  Franz Schubert, “Sei mir gegrüßt,” D. 741  Franz Schubert, “An die Musik,” D. 547  Franz Schubert, “Auf der Bruck,” D. 853  Gabriel Fauré, “Prison,” Op. 83, No. 1  Gabriel Fauré, “Soir,” Op. 83, No. 2  Gabriel Fauré, “Fleur jetée,” Op. 39, No. 2  Gabriel Fauré, “Mandoline,” Op. 58, No. 1  Gabriel Fauré, “Notre amour,” Op. 23, No. 2  Gaetano Donizetti, Act 2, Scene 3, “Venti scudi!... Ai perigli della guerra” from L’elisir d’amore  Aaron Copland, “Long Time Ago”  John Musto, “Witness”  John Musto, “Old Photograph”  John Musto, “Nude at the Piano”  Aaron Copland, “The Dodger”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
29
2023

Jennifer Huang, conducting

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Donald Schleicher  Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major (“Titan”)  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
29
2023

Mexodus

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Chicago

Inspired by the thousands of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico, rather than looking north, Mexodus uses live looping and hip hop to explore an undertold chapter of the underground railroad and celebrate Black and Brown bodies standing together against oppression. Join us for a workshop presentation of this innovative new American musical!

Apr
29
2023

Sabrina Chen, soprano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Patrice Michaels  Timothy Fu, clarinet; Jason Carlson, piano  Georges Bizet, “Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante” from Carmen  Amy Beach, Three Browning Songs  黃自, 思鄉 (Longing for Home)     趙季平, 关雎    黃自, 春思曲 (Lovesick in the Spring)     Franz Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock)  Jules Massenet, “Frère! Voyez!... Du gai soleil” from Werther  Gian Carlo Menotti, “Monica’s Waltz” from The Medium  Gaetano Donizetti, “Chacun le sait” from La fille du régiment   

Apr
30
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

Apr
30
2023

Nick Mihalich, trombone

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, R. Douglas Wright, Randall Hawes, and Timothy Higgins  Yoko Yamada, piano  Antonio Vivaldi, Cello Sonata No. 6 in B-flat Major, RV 46  Kazimierz Serocki, Sonatina for Trombone  Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonnet 66, Op. 62, No. 5  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “None But the Lonely Heart,” Op. 6  Sergei Rachmaninoff, “In the Silence of the Secret Night,” Op. 4  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Concerto for Trombone Tickets are not required for this event. 

Apr
30
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Apr
30
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Apr
30
2023

Julia Woodring, mezzo-soprano

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Jason Carlson, piano  Gioachino Rossini, La regata veneziana (The Venetian Regatta)  André Caplet, Le vieux coffret (The Old Box)  Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)  Benjamin Britten, Cabaret Songs  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
30
2023

Symphonic Band

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Shawn Vondran, conductor  The Symphonic Band’s first concert of the spring is a celebration of American voices past and present, opening with Kimberly Archer’s Fanfare Politeia — performed by the “President’s Own” United States Marine Band for the 2021 Presidential Inauguration. Steven Bryant describes the program’s second work, Alchemy in Silent Spaces, as “music of both personal and musical transformation.” The program continues with two important American voices from the past: Morton Gould and Samuel Barber. Commando March is Barber’s only original work for wind band, while the “West Point” Symphony is Gould’s most important work for wind band and a pillar of the band canon.  Kimberly Archer, Fanfare Politeia  Steven Bryant, Alchemy in Silent Spaces  Samuel Barber, Commando March  Morton Gould, Symphony IV (“West Point”) 

Apr
30
2023

Timothy Fu, clarinet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Vaynu Kadiyali, flute; Kevin Kim, oboe; Jason Huang, bassoon; Sylvia Denecke, horn; Sabrina Chen, soprano; Audrianna Wu and Kay Kim, piano  Valerie Coleman, Sonatine  Franz Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock), D. 965  Claude Debussy, Première rhapsodie, L. 116  Francis Poulenc, Sextet, FP 100  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
30
2023

Yasmeen Altaji, mezzo-soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Ranna Shahbazi, mezzo-soprano; Ronnie Malley, oud; Daniel Szefer, piano  Various composers (arr. Wajdi Abou Diab), Arabic Folk Tunes  Wajdi Abou Diab, دعوة موت الى العشاء, Op. 18  Wajdi Abou Diab, “Iyyaka Wal Bouka’,” Op. 3A  Traditional (arr. Yasmeen Altaji), “Nami, Nami”  Palestinian folk, in the style of Rola Azar (trans. Yasmeen Altaji), “Ya Tal’een el Jabal”  Anoushiravan Rohani (arr. Yasmeen Altaji), “Gole Sangam”  Juliana Jendo (arr. Yasmeen Altaji), “Bratet Matwateh”  Ashur Bet Sargis (arr. Yasmeen Altaji), “Brata D’Shamiram”  Sargon Gabriel (arr. Yasmeen Altaji), “Tura’d Nareh”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Apr
30
2023

Geoffrey Schmelzer, baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Laurann Gilley, keyboards; Luke Wejman, cello George Frideric Handel, Dalla guerra amorosa, HWV 102a  Ludwig van Beethoven, An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98  Maurice Ravel, Histoires naturelles  Lee Hoiby, I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman  Richard Rodgers, Soliloquy from Carousel  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
1
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
1
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
1
2023

Fulbright Study/Research Application Workshop

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Interested in pursuing research or study abroad? Attend a Zoom meeting to learn about the Fulbright application process at Northwestern. We will discuss application components and successful application strategies. You do not need a draft of your essays, but will benefit most if you have a clear vision of your project.

May
1
2023

Third Coast CFAR Seminar: Structure and Function of the HIV Capsid

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

This Third Coast CFAR event will feature Wes Sundquist, PhD, who will speak about the structure and function of the conical core of the mature infectious HIV-1 virus. Sundquist is the Samuels Distinguished Professor and chair of biochemistry at the University of Utah, and director of the NIH U54 CHEETAH Center for the Structural Biology of HIV Infection, Restriction, and Viral Dynamics.  

May
1
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
1
2023

2023 Northwestern Buffett Idea Incubation Showcase

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs' annual Idea Incubation Process offers Northwestern faculty unique opportunities to explore global problems and workshop solutions alongside scholars from across disciplines as well as outside partners. To date, Northwestern Buffett has engaged more than 220 researchers from 68 Northwestern University departments and 10 Northwestern schools in its Idea Incubation Process. On Monday, May 1, Northwestern Buffett will host a showcase of the research projects stemming from its 2022–23 Idea Incubation Process. The showcase will feature faculty presentations on the interdisciplinary research projects Northwestern Buffett will support in the coming years, as well as commentary from the panel of experts who assessed the merits of this year’s project proposals on the basis of their potential for societal impact. The showcase will also offer faculty updates from Northwestern Buffett’s existing Global Working Groups and their projects underway. A reception will follow the in-person program, which will conclude at 5:15 p.m. Learn more about each of our new working groups' projects >> You may register to attend in person, or register to attend virtually.

May
1
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section A

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Patty Marfise-Patt

May
1
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

May
1
2023

Exploring Watercolor

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Exploring watercolor takes you from A - Z in understanding watercolor painting, from overcoming the "fear" of the white paper, to using some "tricks" to achieving exciting results. YES....you CAN correct in watercolor painting! Instructor: Ingrid Albrecht

May
1
2023

Mindfulness and Meditation

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

This course will introduce techniques and philosophy to cultivate a lifestyle of awareness and relief through mindfulness and meditation. Guided by Buddhism teaching, participants will learn breathing techniques for everyday use and time of stress. Participants will explore and gain a deeper understanding of self and learn how to cope with trauma and everyday anxiety. Instructor: Rongxi Ren

May
2
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
2
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
2
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
2
2023

"To Be Brown and Gay in the USA" with Dr. Anthony Ocampo

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online

Immigration, race, and LGBTQIA2+ rights have been headline issues in recent decades. Still, the experiences of individuals whose identities cut across all three issues have remained invisible to most. In this talk, Anthony Christian Ocampo, Ph.D., addresses the reasons behind invisibility and the struggles that LGBTQIA2+ people of color face in order to be seen, not just by the public but also by their immigrant families, ethnic communities and the mainstream gay community. Drawing on the experiences of Latino and Asian American gay men, Ocampo chronicles the creative strategies they employ to embrace their identities and create community, even while facing racism and homophobia in their everyday lives. Ocampo is a professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of “Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons” and the “Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race,” featured on NPR, NBC News, Literary Hub, and the Los Angeles Times. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized in partnership between Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University, Center for Organizing Minority Program to Advance Student Success (COMPASS) Program at Oakton College, and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (OEDI) at Northeastern Illinois University. 

May
2
2023

Walk with a Well-being Champion

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Off-Campus

Join our university Well-being Champions through Wednesday, June 7 for a 30-minute walk on select dates each week. The walks provide an opportunity to take a break during the workday, meet other NU colleagues, and enjoy the outdoors.  - The walks will take place 12:30 p.m.-1 p.m. - The weekly schedule will vary  - The schedule will be shared each Monday via the Well-being Mailing List and will also be accessible on Planit Purple - Walks will not be held in cases of inclement weather  

May
2
2023

Well-being Break: Total Body Workout

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Cerina for a 30-minute full-body cardio and strength workout, using body weight & common household items for "weights". All you need is a little space & proper footwear.

May
2
2023

Introduction to Handbuilding

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

In this class, we will spend six weeks creating functional ceramic pieces! You will build by hand using the three main types of hand built clay construction, pinching, coiling and slab. We will also explore Kurinuki. We will work with the glazes available in the studio and learn proper glaze procedures. We will look also at various surface decoration techniques, such as so that your pieces will be truly one of a kind! Instructor: Patty Marfise-Patt

May
2
2023

Pocket Billiards for Beginners

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

These lessons are tailored to players who range from beginner level to advanced. You will learn topics ranging from mastering fundamentals to difficult shots and game strategies. Instructor: Larry Schwartz

May
2
2023

SAAM - Reclaiming Intimacy

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, No Location

Join CARE’s Assistant Director of Sexual Violence Response Services, Katelyn Kennon and a small cohort in a series of three confidential, experiential, evening workshops covering topics such as sexual values, boundaries, embodied consent, partner communication, exploring pleasure, and staying present during sex. Student-survivors of all identities, orientations, and relationship statuses are welcome.

May
2
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
2
2023

Modern Cocktail Workshop Part 2

7:45 PM - 9:45 PM, Evanston

Can't decide what to order at the bar? Mixed up mixing cocktails? Missed last year's hugely successful Part 1? Jump Right In!  Highlighted liquors include whiskey, gin, and rum. Practice with your own shaker or just sit back, relax, and taste the sample cocktails created by your instructor. Students will observe barware and mixing techniques and receive recipes for all the classic cocktails featured in the class. Cocktail lore will be sprinkled throughout for a humorous and informative class. * You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Kathleen and Mark Gruber

May
2
2023

Adam Clayton, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Kurt R. Hansen  Karina Kontorovitch, piano  Samuel Barber, “Outside this house” from Vanessa  Gabriel Fauré, La bonne chanson, Op. 61  George Frideric Handel, “Pastorello d’un povero armento” from Rodelinda  William Grant Still, “Song for the Lonely”  Francesco Paolo Tosti, “Ideale”  Johannes Brahms, “Lerchengesang,” Op. 70, No. 2  W. A. Mozart, “Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön” from Die Zauberflöte  Reynaldo Hahn, “L’heure exquise” 

May
2
2023

Kurt Cox, saxophone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Taimur Sullivan  Brenna Crowgey, violin; Nathan Canfield and Wenting Shi, piano  John Anthony Lennon, Distances Within Me for alto saxophone and piano  Lars-Erik Larsson, Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra, Op. 19  David Lang, press release  Dmitri Shostakovich (trans. Kurt Cox), Trio No. 1 in C Minor for violin, violoncello, and piano, Op. 8  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
3
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
3
2023

SupportLinc EAP Webinar: Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM, Online

SupportLinc is Northwestern's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider. Join SupportLinc every first Wednesday of the month for a work-life training.  This month's training is Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events A person does not have to be the victim of an extreme event to experience trauma. When a person’s sense of safety and security is impacted, there is potential for a trauma response. In addition, when a person experiences trauma within multiple contexts, the impact is exponentially powerful. This webinar will help participants recognize possible reactions to distressing events, especially those that are currently impacting many of us (directly and indirectly) due to the pandemic and societal issues. This webinar will teach participants what self-care is, learn grounding methods to combat traumatic events, and recognize the different effort levels of self-care techniques and how to apply them.

May
3
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
3
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
3
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
3
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
3
2023

Walk with a Well-being Champion

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston

Join our university Well-being Champions through Wednesday, June 7 for a 30-minute walk on select dates each week. The walks provide an opportunity to take a break during the workday, meet other NU colleagues, and enjoy the outdoors.  - The walks will take place 12:30 p.m.-1 p.m. - The weekly schedule will vary  - The schedule will be shared each Monday via the Well-being Mailing List and will also be accessible on Planit Purple - Walks will not be held in cases of inclement weather  

May
3
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

May
3
2023

Havey Institute for Global Health IGH Seminar: "Implementing the WHF and PASCAR Hypertension Roadmaps in Africa: How far and how well?" featuring Dike Ojji, PhD

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online

Please join the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health for our IGH Seminar Series! This webinar will be available through Zoom, and registration is required in order to receive information to join. All that register will receive a link that is unique to them. "Implementing the WHF and PASCAR Hypertension Roadmaps in Africa: How far and how well?" Our speaker for May is: Dike Ojji (MBBS, PhD, FWACP, FACP, FESC) Lead Investigator Cardiovascular Research Unit Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Clinical Sciences College of Health Sciences University of Abuja & Consultant Physician/Cardiologist University of Abuja Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada, Abuja Nigeria More details on this talk coming soon!

May
3
2023

SupportLinc EAP Webinar: Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online

SupportLinc is Northwestern's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider. Join SupportLinc every first Wednesday of the month for a work-life training.  This month's training is Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events A person does not have to be the victim of an extreme event to experience trauma. When a person’s sense of safety and security is impacted, there is potential for a trauma response. In addition, when a person experiences trauma within multiple contexts, the impact is exponentially powerful. This webinar will help participants recognize possible reactions to distressing events, especially those that are currently impacting many of us (directly and indirectly) due to the pandemic and societal issues. This webinar will teach participants what self-care is, learn grounding methods to combat traumatic events, and recognize the different effort levels of self-care techniques and how to apply them.

May
3
2023

Leon Forrest Lecture featuring Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at African American Studies at Columbia University where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Professor Griffin received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001), Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (with Salim Washington, Thomas Dunne Press, 2008), and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books, 2013). Her most recent book, the critically acclaimed Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, was published by W.W. Norton in September, 2021. Her collected essays, In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She collaborated with composer, pianist, Geri Allen and director, actor S. Epatha Merkerson on two theatrical projects, for which she wrote the book: The first, “Geri Allen and Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo,” with Lizz Wright, Dianne Reeves, Teri Lyne Carrington and others, premiered on the main stage of the Apollo Theater in May of 2013. The second, “A Conversation with Mary Lou” featuring vocalist Carmen Lundy, premiered at Harlem Stage in March 2014 and was performed at The John F. Kennedy Center in May of 2016. Griffin was 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence.

May
3
2023

Applied Acting in Corporate Presentations

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL BUSINESS PRESENTATION CLASS! This is an acting class taught by a multi-award-winning film director who uses theatrical acting exercises and improv games to address presence/movement/gesture, conquer nervousness, and develop a voice with the intent of adding to your business presentation skills. Participants will experience feelings, learn to trust instincts and intuition, experience acting, movement, body language, tone, pace, rhythm, and apply it all in ways that cause effective communication. Instructor: Steven Fischer

May
3
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
3
2023

Ted Deddens, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Drew Shipman, flute  George Walker, Sonata No. 2  Samuel Barber, Excursions, Op. 20  Tania León, Tumbao  leo discenza, Duo for Piano and Flute  Margaret Bonds, “Troubled Water”  Florence Price, Piano Sonata in E Minor  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
3
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section A

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
3
2023

SupportLinc EAP Webinar: Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

SupportLinc is Northwestern's Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provider. Join SupportLinc every first Wednesday of the month for a work-life training.  This month's training is Self-Care in the Face of Cumulative Trauma: Current Events A person does not have to be the victim of an extreme event to experience trauma. When a person’s sense of safety and security is impacted, there is potential for a trauma response. In addition, when a person experiences trauma within multiple contexts, the impact is exponentially powerful. This webinar will help participants recognize possible reactions to distressing events, especially those that are currently impacting many of us (directly and indirectly) due to the pandemic and societal issues. This webinar will teach participants what self-care is, learn grounding methods to combat traumatic events, and recognize the different effort levels of self-care techniques and how to apply them.

May
3
2023

Tai Chi

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Tai Chi is a non-combat martial art, which helps cultivate mental focus, and builds the protective energy Qi in your lungs, creating a powerful immune defense against external pathogens. Take this course with Inna Melnikov, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine with over 25 years of experience. Instructor: Inna Melnikov

May
3
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
3
2023

Samantha Winkler, clarinet

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Nathanael Canfield, piano  Adolphus Hailstork, Three Smiles for Tracey  Jennifer Higdon, A Gentle Notion  Robert Muczynski, Time Pieces, Op. 43  Claude Debussy, Première rhapsodie  Astor Piazzolla (arr. Ignacy Gaydamovich), Oblivion  Svante Henryson, Suite Off Pist  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
4
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
4
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
4
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
4
2023

Norris 50th Celebration Event May the 4th Be with You

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston

Celebrate Norris Center providing 50 years of service to the Northwestern community. Enjoy free fun food, noodles, nachos, bubble tea. Free popcorn to flavor. Coke product sampling, Free spin frisbees. You can spin the wheel for great prizes- (pop sockets, pop it games) and more.  Everyone can enter the drawing to win prizes, (albums, pod cases, wireless chargers and so much more). Plus, there’s karaoke for the heroic, trivia for the clever and music for everyone to groove by. The event will be held on the ground floor- 1999 and TGP (The Gathering Place - Ground Floor north section)  While Quantities Last!  

May
4
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
4
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
4
2023

Toward a Rhetoric of Bioethics (part 1 of 2-part lecture) - Tod Chambers

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents A Montgomery Lecture With Tod Chambers, PhD Associate Professor Faculty, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Toward a Rhetoric of Bioethics (part 1 of 2-part lecture) This is a two-part lecture. Professor Chambers will argue for the critical importance for attending to the rhetoric of bioethics. This first lecture, provides an overview of how the description of moral problems is a key feature of this rhetoric. In the second lecture, Professor Chambers will look at some ways in which bioethicists redescribe the world in a manner that supports particular moral positions. In-person attendance is open to the Northwestern Community: Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 East Superior Street, Chicago Campus). Zoom attendance is open to all. Registration required. ** PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK** REGISTER HERE Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements

May
4
2023

Using Raw Audit Logs to Measure Physician Workload, Cognitive Burden, and Burnout

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Chicago

Registration required. **HYBRID EVENT: join us IN-PERSON or ONLINE. Please RSVP regardless and indicate your intended mode. The in-person event will be held in BaldwinAuditorium of the Lurie Medical Research Building at 303 E. Superior; Chicago. Lunch will be provided for in person attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.** In this talk, Dr. Kannampallil will discuss the use of raw audit logs—trails of clinicians’ click stream activities on an EHR—to measure physician workload, cognitive burden and burnout using a combination of statistical and machine learning approaches. In a series of studies, his team developed data pipelines and open-source tools for translating raw clickstream data into meaningful EHR use metrics that were used for (a) assessing workload, (b) creating objective measures of errors, and (c) assessing the relationship between workload (and cognitive burden) on errors. He will also describe new directions for research using audit logs including novel mathematical and machine learning techniques to characterize tasks, measuring interactive communication (using Epic SecureChat), and comparing audit log-based workload measures and reimbursements. Guest: Thomas Kannampallil, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Washington University School of Medicine For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham This seminar is co-sponsored by the Institute of Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM) at Northwestern University. 

May
4
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

May
4
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Chantal Chuba

May
4
2023

APIDA Book Club Discussion – Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

Back by popular demand! Due to student advocacy, Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) is excited to bring back the APIDA Book Club program. Over the winter quarter, APIDA students voted for their choice of book. Join MSA for in-person discussion of the book Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto. Please contact APIDA Assistant Director, Rignesha, at rprajapati@northwestern.edu for questions or concerns. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized by the Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University. 

May
4
2023

From Campus to Community-Based Organizing

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston

Sit around the campfire with Northwestern alums who have taken skills built in campus-based activism into their communities.  Dinner and smores provided. Part Four of a four part series, Taking Action for Reproductive Justice Confirmed Speakers: Eliza Gonring, Prison-Neighborhood Arts Project Addie Shrodes, State of Illinois, Office of the Chief Equity Officer

May
4
2023

Introduction to Dark Room (B&W) Photography - Section B

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course will explore the methods, history, and potential of analog film photography. Students will learn to use a 35mm cameras. Using a wide variety of black and white films, students will become familiar with several film development techniques and analog printing techniques in the dark room.  All supplies are provided including a basic 35mm camera and films are provided.  Students are welcome to bring their own 35mm camera. Instructor: Renee Mudgett

May
4
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
4
2023

Kaissy Yau, flute

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of John Thorne  Kay Kim, piano  Astor Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango  Amanda Harberg, Feathers and Wax  Theodoor Verhey, Flute Concerto No. 1, Op. 43  C. P. E. Bach, Flute Sonata in G Major, H. 564   Arthur Honegger, Danse de la chèvre, H. 39  Francis Poulenc, Flute Sonata, FP 164  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
4
2023

Wheel Throwing III (Advanced)

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing III is for students who have completed multiple intermediate sessions, and are ready for more independence as an artist. Students will be working on several larger projects that aim at discussing concepts, meaning, and aesthetics. Students should expect to begin working on a portfolio that showcases their concepts clearly. This course aims to grow students' understanding of ceramics as art. Students will be involved in creating an environment for ceramic art practices to bloom. This course is for dedicated artists looking to expand their concepts. Students will begin a social media account where they will share their works in progress, making work videos, and final products. *Prerequisites: have taken an intermediate wheel throwing class Instructor: Ranch Ward

May
4
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section B

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
4
2023

Xingyu Li, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Ke Wang, piano  Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 (“Thun”)  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
4
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
4
2023

Spring Wines

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

Taste and discuss fun, lighter wines of spring with varietals including Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, and Sparkling Wines. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
5
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
5
2023

Annual Birch Bark Canoe Launch

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston

Join us on the morning of May 5 as we launch the wiigwaasi-jiimaan (birch bark canoe) Northwestern built under the leadership of Wayne Valliere (LDF Ojibwe) in 2021. The canoe will take a short trip into the waters of Lake Michigan in preparation for the move to its new home in the Segal Visitors Center. There will be brief remarks, song, and will conclude with to-go breakfast boxes. 

May
5
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
5
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
5
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
5
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
5
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
5
2023

Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

Have you ever wondered what global health work is like on the ground, in the places where it’s done? Then this book talk is for you! Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within non-religious institutions on the ground. In this talk, Pierre Minn discusses his new book Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti (Cornell University Press, 2022). He focuses in particular on the work of Haitian health professionals who often are charged with implementing interventions and humanitarian aid programs. Based on ethnographic research in Haitian hospitals, Where They Need Me examines the work of Haitian health professionals in humanitarian aid encounters. Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. Haitian physicians, nurses, and administrative staff are hired to carry out these global health programs, distribute or withhold resources, and produce accounts of interventions' outcomes. In their roles as intermediaries, Haitian clinicians are expected not only to embody the humanitarian projects of foreign funders and care for their impoverished patients but also to act as sources of support for their own kin networks, while negotiating their future prospects in a climate of pronounced scarcity and insecurity. In Where They Need Me, medical anthropologist Pierre Minn argues that a serious consideration of these local health care providers in the context of global health is essential to counter simplistic depictions of clinicians and patients as heroes, villains, or victims as well as to move beyond the donor-recipient dyad that has dominated theoretical work on humanitarianism and the gift. Pierre Minn is an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social and Preventive Medicine at the Université de Montréal.

May
5
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Chantal Chuba

May
5
2023

Lila Brown, mezzo-soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Kurt Hansen  Karina Kontorovitch, piano  Carl Loewe, Frauenliebe, Op. 60  Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und leben, Op. 42  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
5
2023

Screening and Discussion with The Otolith Group: "INFINITY minus infinity" (2019)

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

In their 2019 film, INFINITY minus infinity, the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist collective the Otolith Group contests the toxic sociopolitical histories that inform Black life in contemporary England. The film interrogates the “hostile environment policy” enacted by Theresa May’s Conservative government in 2012, which was framed as an effort to combat “illegal immigration” in the UK. But the policy, which harshly denied access to services and employment for undocumented migrants, reflected a broader, suffocating atmosphere of anti-blackness in Britain—one tied to centuries-long histories of discrimination, extraction, and environmental devastation. Collaborating with a range of poets, performers, and scholars, core group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun craft what Artforum critic Ed Halter described as “a constantly moving flux of bodies, histories, and theories.” An expressive and incisive visual essay, INFINITY minus infinity combines deftly-layered strata of imagery and sound to survey the pasts and presents of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene—while gesturing toward alternative futures informed by Black radical feminist traditions. Following the screening, Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun will appear to discuss the film with Antawan Byrd (College Fellow, Department of Art History, Northwestern University). *** This program is sponsored by the Northwestern Buffett Global Working Group Climate Crisis + Media Arts and presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. As part of their week-long Chicago visit, The Otolith Group will appear for a public screening of their film NUCLEUS OF THE GREAT UNION at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3. More information >>

May
5
2023

Susan Graham Vocal Master Class

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston

Part of the Tichio-Finnie Vocal Master Class Series Yasuko Oura, piano Hailed as “an artist to treasure” (New York Times) and “America’s favorite mezzo” (Gramophone), Susan Graham has mastered an impressive range of repertoire over the course of her career. Her operatic roles span four centuries, ranging from the title role in Monteverdi’s Poppea to Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (written especially for her). Graham makes regular concert appearances with the world’s foremost orchestras and her discography comprises a wealth of opera, orchestral, and solo recordings. Among her numerous honors are a Grammy Award, an Opera News Award, and the title of Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year, as well as the French government’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. In this master class, she coaches Bienen School voice and opera program students. Richard Strauss, “Wie du warst” from Der Rosenkavalier  Julia Woodring, mezzo-soprano  Ernest Chausson, “Le temps des lilas”  Lauryn Nelson, mezzo-soprano  Richard Strauss, “Presentation of the Rose” from Der Rosenkavalier  Isobel Anthony, soprano  Benjamin Britten, “Through the port comes the moon-shine astray” from Billy Budd  Andrew Sprague, baritone  George Frideric Handel, “Sta nell’Ircana pietrosa tana” from Alcina  Michelle Mariposa, mezzo-soprano 

May
5
2023

American Pianistic Treasures

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Part of the 2022-23 Keyboard Conversations series Jeffrey Siegel, piano Hallmarks of American musical style, including the rarely heard solo piano transcription of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as well as music of Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, and Samuel Barber. Louis Moreau Gottschalk, The Union  Edward MacDowell, “To a Wild Rose”  Scott Joplin, “Maple Leaf Rag”  Samuel Barber, Adagio mesto from Piano Sonata, Op. 26  Sheldon Shkolnik, Theme and Variations  Leonard Bernstein, Meditation on a Wedding  George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue 

May
5
2023

Yun-Hua Chang, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of James Giles  Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110  Frédéric Chopin, Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61  Franz Liszt, Variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen,” S. 180  Lowell Liebermann, Nocturne No. 5, Op. 55  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
5
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

May
6
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
6
2023

First Aid and CPR Training

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Evanston

This course will be taught by American Red Cross-certified Northwestern student instructors who are members of the Red Cross Training Corps Student Group. Participants will be trained in adult and pediatric CPR and AED, choking, sudden illness, and life-threatening bleeding, and participants will have the knowledge and confidence to respond in emergency situations in minutes matter. Upon successful completion of all components of the training, participants will earn certification for Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED that is valid for 2 years. This course consists of an online portion and in-person skills session (the online portion is to be completed before arriving to the in-person skills session). The in-person skills session is a synthesis of the skills and content learned through the online portion and will take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete. Instructor: Red Cross Training Corp

May
6
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section C

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
6
2023

Holden Welch, trombone

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy  Parisa Tofigh and Rob Kellar, trumpet; Colin Akers, horn; Andrew Ng, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano  Launy Grøndahl, Trombone Concerto  Joseph Buono, Elegy  Anthony Barfield, Red Sky  Ariel Losada, Project  Holden Welch, Tools of Deception  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
6
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
6
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
6
2023

Basic Knitting 2

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

After reviewing knitting basics, learn how to combine knitting and purling to follow patterns and complete projects. For students who have completed Basic Knitting 1 or who already know the knit stitch. This class is for all ages. Instructor: Anne Howard

May
6
2023

Tea History and Tasting

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston

In this class, you will learn all about tea! Through tastings and stories, we'll explore varieties within the four main categories of tea - black, green, oolong, and white, as well as discuss and taste some herbal teas too. You'll leave this course with a wealth of knowledge on tea history and a foundation for building the refined pallet of a tea connoisseur! Instructor: McKenna Troy

May
6
2023

Rubén Denis Portillo Franco, guitar

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Anne Waller  Shirley Trissell, piano  J. S. Bach (arr. Frank Koonce), Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro, BWV 998  Mauro Giuliani, Grand Overture, Op. 61  Agustín Pío Barrios, La Catedral  Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

Ying Jiang, oboe

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Robert Morgan  Mingyue Fei, violin; Kay Kim, piano  J. S. Bach, Concerto in C Minor for Oboe and Violin, BWV 1060   Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for Oboe and Piano in D Major, Op. 166  Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Oboe and Piano  Stanislas Verroust, Solo de concert No. 2, Op. 74  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

Wheel Throwing One-Day Workshop: Section B

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Want to dip your hands in a little clay? Come join us for a two-hour workshop where you'll learn the fundamental steps of throwing. Participants will get to throw as much as they can, but will only be choosing one piece to keep. Participants will get to choose from 4 different glaze colors to match their perfect creation. Projects will be available for pick up two weeks from the workshop's completion. No experience is required! Instructor: Sylvia Tan

May
6
2023

Charlie Jones, trumpet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of David Bilger  Yoko Yamada, piano  André Jolivet, Concertino  Adam Schoenberg, Separated by Space  W. A. Mozart (trans. In A-flat Major by Charlie Jones), Oboe Concerto, K. 314  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

Elizabeth Low, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of James Giles  Geoffrey Schmelzer, baritone; Julian Velasco, saxophone; Jaime An, cello  César Franck, Sonata in A Major  Claude Debussy, Trois Ballades de François Villon  Franz Schubert, “Auf der Bruck,” D. 853  Franz Schubert, “Im Frühling,” D. 882  Paule Maurice, Tableaux de Provence  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

Guitar Ensemble

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Anne Waller, director  Music for guitar soloists, duos, trios, and full ensemble. Antonio Vivaldi, L’estro armonico, Concerto, Op. 3, No. 8  Manuel Ponce, Eight Variations on Folia de España  Heinrich Albert, Trio in C Major  Dionisio Aguado, Introduction and Rondo, Op. 2, No. 2  Francisco Tárrega, Fantasia on Themes from La traviata  Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5  Isaac Albéniz, Asturias  Isaac Albéniz, Torre Bermeja  Agustín Barrios, La Catedral  John Johnson, Le rossignol  John Dowland, My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home  Stepan Rak, Temptation of the Renaissance  Stepan Rak, Rumba from Aria de Bohemia, Hommage à Ivan Jelinek     

May
6
2023

Segal Iron Pour

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Join us for the 5th annual Segal Iron Pour, a one-of-a-kind experience that aims to stimulate curiosity in sand casting, forging, and other types of manufacturing. The Iron Pour features Segal students, faculty, and staff who will demonstrate the forging process by pouring hundreds of pounds of molten iron into creatively designed molds. The Segal Iron Pour is open to the McCormick community, including students, faculty, and staff. While attending the event, interested participants should ask about the t-shirt giveaway.

May
6
2023

Luke Mott, bass-baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Jonathan Gmeinder, piano  Ben Moore, Ode to a Nightingale  Hugo Wolf, Selections from Goethe-Lieder       “Der Sänger”       “Der Rattenfänger”       “Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit”       “Der Schäfer”       “Königlich Gebet”       “Phänomen”  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
6
2023

Nick Collins, tuba

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gene Pokorny and Matthew Gaunt  John Golland, Tuba Concerto, Op. 46  Isaac Albéniz (arr. Walter Higgers), Selections from España, Op. 165  Anthony Plog, Three Miniatures  Franz Strauss (arr. Skip Gray), Nocturno, Op. 7  Vittorio Monti (arr. Oystein Baadsvik), Czardas  Oystein Baadsvik, Ordner seg (It’ll Be All Right)  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
7
2023

Joelle Chen, violin

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Kirsten Lee, violin; Steven Wilke, viola; Zachary Keum, cello; Veronika Izmaylova, piano  Johannes Brahms, Sonatensatz from Scherzo in C Minor  Karol Szymanowski, Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 9  Niccolò Paganini, Moses Fantasy  Eugène Ysaÿe, Violin Sonata No. 4 in E Minor Miguel del Aguila, Concierto en Tango  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
7
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
7
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
7
2023

Aidan Alcocer, horn

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Uma Singh, soprano; Kay Kim, piano  Niels Viggo Bentzon, In the Forest, Op. 239  Karl Pilss, Sinfonia from Tre pezzi in forma di Sonata  Franz Schubert, Auf dem Strom, D. 943  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Piano and Horn, Op. 17  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

An Tran, guitar

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Anne Waller  Napoléon Coste, Le départ: Fantaisie dramatique, Op. 31  Napoléon Coste, La chasse des sylphes, Op. 29  Napoléon Coste, Grande sérénade, Op. 30  Paul Ibbotson, Prelude in E Minor (dedicated to An Tran)  Juan Erena, Find You Again (dedicated to An Tran)  Traditional folk song arr. Nguyễn Hải Thoại, Lới Lơ  Đặng Ngọc Long, Hồi Tưởng (Remembrance)    Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

Schyler Adkins, conducting

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts   Student of Mallory Thompson  Vincent d’Indy, Chansons et danses, Op. 50 Jonathan Newman, Concertino for solo flute, piano, and chamber winds David Gillingham, Serenade for Winds and Percussion (“Songs of the Night”)  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

Luke Wejman, cello

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen  Liang-yu Wang, piano  J. S. Bach, Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1007-1012   Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Leonard Rose), Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

Isobel Anthony, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Charles Foster, piano  W. A. Mozart, Eine kleine deutsche Kantate, K. 619  Hannah Gruendemann, Galatea  Max Vinetz, Now and Now  Gabriel Fauré, La bonne chanson, Op. 61 Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
7
2023

Ranna Shahbazi, mezzo-soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Teresa Kang, piano  George Frideric Handel, Messiah, HWV 56   Richard Strauss, Selections from Acht Lieder aus “Letzte Blätter,” Op. 10  Richard Strauss, “Morgen!” from 4 Lieder, Op. 27  Bernard Herrmann, “I Have Dreamt” from Wuthering Heights  Leonard Bernstein, “I Am Easily Assimilated” from Candide  Gabriel Fauré, “Les roses d’Ispahan” from Quatre mélodies, Op. 39  Ernest Chausson, “Hébé” from 7 Mélodies, Op. 2  Claude Debussy, Romance I from Deux romances  Stefano Donaudy, “Vaghissima sembianza” from 36 Arie di Stile Antico  Gaetano Donizetti, “Amore e morte” from Soirées d’automne à l’Infrascati  Gioachino Rossini, “Anzoleta avanti la regata” from La regata veneziana  Georges Bizet, Selections from Carmen  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
7
2023

Julian Velasco, saxophone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Taimur Sullivan  Nathan Canfield, piano  Robert Schumann (arr. Frederick Hemke), Three Romances, Op. 94  Eugène Bozza, Aria  Paule Maurice, Tableaux de Provence  Maurice Ravel (arr. David Walter), Sonatine  Arturo Márquez, Danzón No. 6  Camille Saint-Saëns (Arr. Jeffrey Vickers), Oboe Sonata in D Major, Op. 166  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
8
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
8
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
8
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
8
2023

Goldwater Scholarship Infotmation Session

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Online

Join us to learn about the Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious award given to US undergraduates in STEM. The Goldwater is open to sophomores and juniors who demonstrate high potential for a future research career.. Please register to attend. Questions? Contact LaTanya Williams in the Office of Fellowships at latanya.williams@northwestern.edu.

May
8
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section A

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Patty Marfise-Patt

May
8
2023

Jesmyn Ward's Eco-Gothic: A Visiting Lecture with Teresa Goddu

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

The American Cultures Colloquium is thrilled to welcome Professor Teresa Goddu on May 8th at 5:15pm for her talk, “Jesmyn Ward’s Eco-Gothic."  Professor Teresa Goddu is a Professor of English at Vanderbilt University whose research focuses on the environmental humanities, specifically contemporary climate fiction. She is Director of the Program in American Studies. As director, she designed “The Sustainability Project,” a three-year interdisciplinary initiative to embolden Vanderbilt’s environmental efforts, which resulted in a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. She is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia University Press, 1997) and most recently, Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). She is the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Senior Specialist Fulbright award. 

May
8
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

May
8
2023

Exploring Watercolor

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Exploring watercolor takes you from A - Z in understanding watercolor painting, from overcoming the "fear" of the white paper, to using some "tricks" to achieving exciting results. YES....you CAN correct in watercolor painting! Instructor: Ingrid Albrecht

May
8
2023

Mindfulness and Meditation

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

This course will introduce techniques and philosophy to cultivate a lifestyle of awareness and relief through mindfulness and meditation. Guided by Buddhism teaching, participants will learn breathing techniques for everyday use and time of stress. Participants will explore and gain a deeper understanding of self and learn how to cope with trauma and everyday anxiety. Instructor: Rongxi Ren

May
8
2023

Robert Kellar, trumpet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of David Bilger  Thomas Hubel, trumpet; Yoko Yamada, piano  Rodion Shchedrin, In the Style of Albéniz  Karl Pilss, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano  Regina Harris Baiocchi, Miles Per Hour  Manuel de Falla, Siete canciones populares españolas  Fritz Kreisler, Marche miniature viennoise  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
8
2023

Solveig Geenen, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Franz Schubert, Violin Sonatina No. 3 in G Minor, D. 408  Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112  Jessie Montgomery, Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin  Richard Strauss, Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
8
2023

Percussion Ensemble

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

She-e Wu, director  An evening of eclectic rhythms.

May
8
2023

Chungho Lee, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Domenico Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas  Franz Schubert, Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (“Wanderer Fantasy”)  Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
8
2023

Cole Davis, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, R. Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, and Randall Hawes  Quincy Erickson, trumpet; Kurt Eide and Alex Ertl, trombone; Reid Harman, bass trombone; Ryan Williamson, horn; Yoko Yamada, piano  Stjepan Šulek, Sonata “Vox Gabrieli”  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Vyacheslav Kruglik), Suite from Eugene Onegin  Franz Strauss, Nocturno, Op. 7  Arthur Pryor, Fantastic Polka  Vaclav Nelhybel, Trio for Brass  Manuel Ponce (arr. Sam Every), Estrellita for solo trombone and trombone trio  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
9
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
9
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
9
2023

Gender Inclusive Language Workshop - online

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Online

OIDI and the Women's Center are hosting three all-campus workshops in alignment with the new Systems Update Project.  Participants will practice varied pronoun usage and learn about gender identity and expression.     

May
9
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
9
2023

Well-being Break: Total Body Workout

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Cerina for a 30-minute full-body cardio and strength workout, using body weight & common household items for "weights". All you need is a little space & proper footwear.

May
9
2023

IPR Distinguished Lecture: J. Richeson (Yale) - The Mythology of Racial Progress

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

IPR Spring 2023 Distinguished Public Policy Lecture "The Mythology of Racial Progress" by Jennifer Richeson, the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception & Communication Lab at Yale University, and IPR Faculty Adjunct Abstract: Our perceptions of, beliefs about, and solutions for racial inequality in the United States are shaped, at least in part, by a mythology of racial progress. Central to this mythology is the dominant narrative that American society is automatically, if not naturally, making steady linear progress toward racial equality. In this distinguished lecture, Yale psychologist Jennifer Richeson argues that our fidelity to this narrative elicits a persistent pattern of willful ignorance regarding some present-day racial disparities, including the wealth gap between Black and White Americans. She will illuminate the psychological science that sustains the narrative as well as some of the consequences of efforts to disrupt it. Richeson also will discuss implications of the mythology of racial progress for efforts to engender actual racial equity in contemporary society. Read more about the event, and learn more about past IPR distinguished lectures.  Please note all IPR events this quarter will be held in-person only.

May
9
2023

APIDA Book Club Discussion – Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online

Back by popular demand! Due to student advocacy, Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) is excited to bring back the APIDA Book Club program. Over the winter quarter, APIDA students voted for their choice of book. Join MSA for virtual discussion of the book Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto. Please contact APIDA Assistant Director, Rignesha, at rprajapati@northwestern.edu for questions or concerns. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized by the Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University. 

May
9
2023

NCA: Life After OPT

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

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May
9
2023

Ariana Rios, trumpet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of David Bilger  Sarah Jessen, Megan Radcliffe, Fiona Shonik, Parisa Tofigh, and Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Yoko Yamada, piano  Giuseppe Torelli, Selections from Sonata in D Major, G. 1  Florence Price (arr. Reynaldo Ochoa), Adoration  Alexander Arutiunian, Aria et Scherzo  Oskar Böhme, Trumpet Concerto, Op. 18  Kevin McKee, Dürrenhorn Passage Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
9
2023

Introduction to Handbuilding

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

In this class, we will spend six weeks creating functional ceramic pieces! You will build by hand using the three main types of hand built clay construction, pinching, coiling and slab. We will also explore Kurinuki. We will work with the glazes available in the studio and learn proper glaze procedures. We will look also at various surface decoration techniques, such as so that your pieces will be truly one of a kind! Instructor: Patty Marfise-Patt

May
9
2023

Pocket Billiards for Beginners

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

These lessons are tailored to players who range from beginner level to advanced. You will learn topics ranging from mastering fundamentals to difficult shots and game strategies. Instructor: Larry Schwartz

May
9
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
9
2023

Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra: The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Derrick Gardner and Darius Hampton, conductors  Trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis formed the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in New York in 1965. The ensemble performed for 12 years in its original incarnation, including a 1972 tour of the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. The collaboration ended in 1978 when Jones moved to Copenhagen, after which the band became the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, later changing its name to the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra following Lewis’s death in 1990. The ensemble won Grammy Awards for its 1978 album Live in Munich and its 2008 album Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard. Join the Jazz Orchestra for an exploration of the music that put the ensemble on the map. Program (all selections by Thad Jones): Dedication  Three and One  Consummation  The Waltz You Swang for Me  Tip Toe  A-That's Freedom  Basic-ally Yours  A Child is Born  Quietude  Little Pixie II 

May
9
2023

Whiskey Seminar

7:45 PM - 9:45 PM, Evanston

Only offered once this quarter, this  Rare Whiskey Seminar will cover several of the world's great whiskies:  Bourbon, Rye, and Single Malt Scotch, including samples of rare, extra-aged whiskies.  The history, the personalities and lore, distillation, and aging will be discussed.  Cocktail recipes will be shared.  Tasting samples of each whiskey will be available for attendees. Instructor: Kathleen and Mark Gruber

May
9
2023

Alex Ertl, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, R. Douglas Wright, Randall Hawes, and Timothy Higgins  Bethany Vaughan and Sarah Jessen, trumpet; Rachel Côté, horn; Ben Poirot, tuba; Yoko Yamada, piano  Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Trombone and Piano  Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Concerto for Alto Trombone and Strings  Jules Massenet (trans. Scott Hartman), Méditation from Thaïs  Enrique Crespo, Suite Americana No. 1  Tickets are not required for this event.  

May
9
2023

Isabelle Chin, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Yuan-Qing Yu  Nathan Canfield, piano  Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19  Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78 (“Regensonate”)  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Valse-Scherzo in C Major, Op. 34 Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
10
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
10
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
10
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
10
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
10
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
10
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
10
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

May
10
2023

Solidari-Tea: Skin Stories - Bodily Ritual and Art in APIDA Communities

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Online

Join us for a virtual panel of Skin Stories: the things we inscribe on our bodies and the processes by which we do so can hold great meaning, so let’s talk about it! We have the honor of dialoguing with three artists and practitioners who have multifaceted and critical approaches to their skin-work, including moko, trauma-informed handpoking, and tattoo shamanism. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized by the Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University.

May
10
2023

A Conversation about Liberation, Beauty, and Energies in Art Making — Torkwase Dyson with D. Soyini Madison

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

A Conversation about Liberation, Beauty, and Energies in Art Making  Spring Keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's 2022-2023 Dialogue, ENERGIES: A year-long conversation about energies—personal, collective, planetary—from different humanistic perspectives. As so many living species lose their lives as well as gain new life due to the complex, contradictory, multiple forces and forms of energy—too much or too little energy—we ask, What does art have to do with the urgences of energy? How can art matter when bodies, in all living forms, are on the line because of the scarcity or abundance of energy? and, finally, Where is energy located, or made relevant, in abstract art and in beauty? We will begin to open these questions through a discussion of “art making” with its processes and intentions for more “livable geographies.” Art lives alongside notions of beauty, making representation and the intermix of energy and beauty compelling work for the artist, especially if that artist is ‘energized’ in their work by creating work that is liberatory.   Tickets are free for this event (click the REGISTER button); public welcome! Space is limited. RSVPs (tickets) are not required, but appreciated, as they help us anticipate attendance numbers. Torkwase Dyson works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Dyson combines expressive mark-making and geometric abstraction to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Dyson deconstructs, distills, and interrogates the built environment, exploring how individuals—particularly Black and Brown people—negotiate, negate, and transform systems and spatial order. With an emphasis on the ways black and brown bodies perceive and negotiate space as information, Dyson looks to spatial liberation strategies from historical and contemporary perspectives, seeking to uncover new understandings of the potential for more livable geographies. Torkwase Dyson employs abstract shapes and forms as a means of exploring the intersections of environmental liberation, movement, and architecture. Within her practice, she has developed a unique vocabulary of abstract lines, forms, shapes, and edges informed by her theory of Black Compositional Thought. This term considers how waterways, objects, and geographies are composed and inhabited by black bodies, and how the properties of energy, space, and scale can form networks of liberation.   D. Soyini Madison is professor emeritus in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern. Madison focuses on the artistry and poetics of fieldwork methods as embodied in ethnographic techniques and practices. Her publications and staged performances engage the intersections of labor activism, political economy of human rights, water democracy, and indigenous performance tactics. Madison’s recent books include Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance (3rd edition) and PerformED Ethnography and Communication: Improvisation and Embodied Experience. Her performed ethnographies include: “Is it a Human Being or a Girl?,” “Water Rites,” and “Labor Rites.” Her most recent performance work, “Seahorse and Bellymouth,” takes a turn into the allegorical when the ocean life of a Seahorse must overcome the gluttonous appetite of the monster known as BellyMouth.  

May
10
2023

Applied Acting in Corporate Presentations

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL BUSINESS PRESENTATION CLASS! This is an acting class taught by a multi-award-winning film director who uses theatrical acting exercises and improv games to address presence/movement/gesture, conquer nervousness, and develop a voice with the intent of adding to your business presentation skills. Participants will experience feelings, learn to trust instincts and intuition, experience acting, movement, body language, tone, pace, rhythm, and apply it all in ways that cause effective communication. Instructor: Steven Fischer

May
10
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
10
2023

Omar Haffar, double bass

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Andrew Raciti  Nathan Canfield, piano  Xavier Foley, Etude No. 12, “Reconstruction”  Xavier Foley, Latin Studies  Halsey Stevens, Arioso and Etude  Giovanni Bottesini, Adagio melanconico ed appassionato  Franz Schubert, Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
10
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section A

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
10
2023

Tai Chi

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Tai Chi is a non-combat martial art, which helps cultivate mental focus, and builds the protective energy Qi in your lungs, creating a powerful immune defense against external pathogens. Take this course with Inna Melnikov, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine with over 25 years of experience. Instructor: Inna Melnikov

May
10
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
10
2023

Luisa Brown-Hernandez, double bass

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Andrew Raciti  Nathan Canfield, piano  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007  Xavier Foley, Etude No. 12, “Reconstruction”  Johann Baptist Vanhal, Double Bass Concerto in E-flat Major  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
11
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
11
2023

Fulbright Study/Research Application Workshop

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, Evanston

Interested in pursuing research or study abroad? Attend a Zoom meeting to learn about the Fulbright application process at Northwestern. We will discuss application components and successful application strategies. You do not need a draft of your essays, but will benefit most if you have a clear vision of your project. 

May
11
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
11
2023

Gender Inclusive Language Workshop - Evanston

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston

OIDI and the Women's Center are hosting three all-campus workshops in alignment with the new Systems Update Project.  Participants will practice varied pronoun usage and learn about gender identity and expression.  Space is limited for in-person workshops. Register Early!

May
11
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
11
2023

Diagnostic Uncertainty in Emergency Medicine

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Chicago

Registration required. **HYBRID EVENT: join us IN-PERSON or ONLINE. Please RSVP regardless and indicate your intended mode. The in-person event will be held in BaldwinAuditorium of the Lurie Medical Research Building at 303 E. Superior; Chicago. Lunch will be provided for in person attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.** Over a third of emergency department patients are discharged with a symptom-based diagnosis (e.g. chest pain) after dangerous causes of their symptoms have been "ruled out." This diagnostic uncertainty causes patient distress and often leads to ED recidivism as patients seek a diagnosis. We will discuss the development and testing of a patient-centered approach to communicating about diagnostic uncertainty in the acute care setting. Guest: Danielle McCarthy, MD, MS Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham This seminar is co-sponsored by the Medical Faculty Council (MFC) at Northwestern University. 

May
11
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
11
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
11
2023

Toward a Rhetoric of Bioethics (part 2 of 2-part lecture) - Tod Chambers

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents A Montgomery Lecture With Tod Chambers, PhD Associate Professor Faculty, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Toward a Rhetoric of Bioethics (part 2 of 2-part lecture) This is a two-part lecture in which Professor Chambers argues for the critical importance for attending to the rhetoric of bioethics. The first lecture, provided an overview of how the description of moral problems is a key feature of this rhetoric. In this second lecture, Professor Chambers looks at some ways in which bioethicists redescribe the world in a manner that supports particular moral positions. In-person attendance is open to the Northwestern Community: Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 East Superior Street, Chicago Campus). Zoom attendance is open to all. Registration required. ** PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK** REGISTER HERE Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements

May
11
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
11
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

May
11
2023

Emma Truong, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Sylvia Wang  leo discenza, soprano Maurice Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte  Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52  Leoš Janáček, Sonata 1. x. 1905  Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Roman Sketches, Op. 7  leo discenza, how I lost my name  leo discenza, When Philomel Her Voice Doth Raise  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
11
2023

Introduction to Dark Room (B&W) Photography - Section B

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course will explore the methods, history, and potential of analog film photography. Students will learn to use a 35mm cameras. Using a wide variety of black and white films, students will become familiar with several film development techniques and analog printing techniques in the dark room.  All supplies are provided including a basic 35mm camera and films are provided.  Students are welcome to bring their own 35mm camera. Instructor: Renee Mudgett

May
11
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
11
2023

Stephen Joven-Lee, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Russell Iceberg, violin  J. S. Bach, Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826  Frédéric Chopin, Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 22  Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit  Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 75  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
11
2023

Wheel Throwing III (Advanced)

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing III is for students who have completed multiple intermediate sessions, and are ready for more independence as an artist. Students will be working on several larger projects that aim at discussing concepts, meaning, and aesthetics. Students should expect to begin working on a portfolio that showcases their concepts clearly. This course aims to grow students' understanding of ceramics as art. Students will be involved in creating an environment for ceramic art practices to bloom. This course is for dedicated artists looking to expand their concepts. Students will begin a social media account where they will share their works in progress, making work videos, and final products. *Prerequisites: have taken an intermediate wheel throwing class Instructor: Ranch Ward

May
11
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section B

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
11
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
11
2023

Spring Wines

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

Taste and discuss fun, lighter wines of spring with varietals including Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, and Sparkling Wines. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
11
2023

Douglas Culclasure, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Karen Brunssen  Catherine Pace, soprano; Mark Dovgalyuk, bass-baritone; Daniel Uglunts, baritone; Teresa Kang, piano  Igor Stravinsky, selections from The Rake’s Progress  Franz Schubert, selections from Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795  J. S. Bach, Deposuit potentes from Magnificat, BWV 243  George Frideric Handel, selections from Messiah, HWV 56  J. S. Bach, “Erfreue dich, Seele, erfreue dich, Herze” from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
12
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
12
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
12
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
12
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
12
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
12
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
12
2023

The PhD of the Future: Humanities Scholarship Beyond Boundaries - Teresa Mangum and Kelly Wisecup

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

The PhD of the Future: Humanities Scholarship Beyond Boundaries Dr. Teresa Mangum in conversation with Dr. Kelly Wisecup Keynote of the Public Humanities Graduate Research Symposium 2023 Lunch will be served at 12:30pm. Please register to help us plan for attendance! As juggling multiple crises increasingly feels like the new normal in many humanities fields, how are graduate students, faculty, and partners beyond the academy transforming what it means to be a successful scholar? What might the future of humanities scholarship look like, and at what point in the transition are we now? In this event, Dr. Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa) will join Dr. Kelly Wisecup (Northwestern) in conversation about new directions in graduate education, career paths, and publicly-engaged scholarship. This event is free and open to the public—we welcome graduate students, faculty, administrators, and anyone with an interest in the future of humanities scholarship to join us. Dr. Teresa Mangum is a professor in the departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. She began her career working on rebellious women, ageism, and surprising human-animal relationships in 19th-century British art and literature. More recently, she has been asking how humanities scholarship and practice might intervene in profound social challenges from social inequities to climate change and how graduate studies in the humanities can prepare future generations for those responsibilities. She is currently directing a multi-year Mellon Grant focused on “Humanities for the Public Good”: an interdisciplinary team of faculty, staff, graduate students, and community partners is designing an “applied” humanities graduate certificate and MA degree. Mangum serves on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and the Public Humanities Network within CHCI and is chair of the planning committee for the October 2023 National Humanities Conference, a collaboration of the National Humanities Alliance and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Dr. Kelly Wisecup is a Professor in the Department of English, Interim Director of the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and affiliate faculty at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. She coordinates several collaborative public humanities projects at the intersections of archives, rivers, cities, and Indigenous literatures, including most recently a Humanities without Walls funded project on the Indigenous Mississippi River and a digital archive of Chicago’s Indigenous literatures and arts, Archive Chicago. Presented by the Public Humanities Research Workshop of the Kaplan Humanities Institute.

May
12
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Chantal Chuba

May
12
2023

University Chorale: Hymns from the Western Coast

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

A.J. Keller and Tim Lambert, conductors; Charles Foster, piano  A collection of music from Scandinavia and the Baltics, centered around Tõnu Kõrvits’s Hymns from the Western Coast for choir and saxophone quartet. The program also features works by Bengt Ollén, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Karin Rehnqvist, and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.

May
12
2023

Julian Stiles, horn

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Kay Kim, piano; Seth Lauver, Claire McLean, and Blake Parker, percussion  Augusta Read Thomas, Song Without Words  Dana Wilson, Graham’s Crackers  leo discenza, di. verti. Mento  George Crumb (trans. Robert Paterson), An Idyll for the Misbegotten  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
12
2023

Leigh Wang, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1  Sergei Rachmaninoff, Selections from Études-Tableaux, Op. 39  Robert Schumann, Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17  Nikolai Kapustin, Variations, Op. 41  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
12
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

May
13
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
13
2023

Coffee Appreciation

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston

This course will dive into the origin of coffee and farming practices, complete with a coffee tasting, and a brew method tutorial, led by Backlot Coffee's sourcer and roaster, Sam. Instructor: Sam Lowe

May
13
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section C

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
13
2023

Mark Morris, horn

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Lily Kern, horn; Kay Kim, piano  Richard Bissill, Song of a New World  James Beckel Jr., The Glass Bead Game  Richard Bissill, Time and Space  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Rachel Campagna, oboe and English horn

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Henoch  Justus Ross, violin; Wilfred Farquharson, viola; Kay Kim, piano  Georg Philipp Telemann, Trio Sonata in E Minor, TWV 42:e2  Benjamin Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49  August Klughardt, 5 Schilflieder, Op. 28  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
13
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
13
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
13
2023

Jason Huang, bassoon

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of David McGill  Nathan Canfield, piano  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010  Alexandre Tansman, Sonatine for Bassoon and Piano   W. A. Mozart, Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191  Gustav Schreck, Sonata in E-flat Major for Bassoon and Piano, Op. 9  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Michael Wattai, horn

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Kaissy Yau, flute; Natalie Johnson, oboe; Anjali Covill, clarinet; Matthew Melillo, bassoon; Kay Kim, piano  Jean Françaix, Divertimento  Alec Wilder, Suite for Horn and Piano  Jean-Michel Defaye, Alpha  Robert Schumann, Selections from Dichterliebe, Op. 48  Jean Françaix, Selections from Wind Quintet No. 1  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Kaytlin Withers, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Karen Brunssen  Jason Carlson, piano  Henry Purcell, The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation  Franz Schubert, Gesänge aus “Wilhelm Meister,” Op. 62       II. “Heiss mich nicht reden”       III. “So lasst mich scheinen”       IV. “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt”  Franz Schubert, “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” Op. 2  Franz Liszt, Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S270  Henri Duparc, “Romance de Mignon”  Henri Duparc, “Le manoire de Rosemonde”  Henri Duparc, “Phidylé”  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Paula Pérez-Glassner, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Shichao Zhang, piano  Gian Carlo Menotti, “Hello! Oh, Margaret, it’s you” from The Telephone  Stephen Sondheim, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd  George Frideric Handel, “Piangerò la sorte mia” from Giulio Cesare  Robert Schumann, Selections from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42  Ralph Vaughan Williams, Selections from Songs of Travel  Joaquín Turina, Tres poemas, Op. 81  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Freya Ou, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Sylvia Wang  Missy Mazzoli, A Map of Laughter  Einojuhani Rautavaara, Passionale  Grażyna Bacewicz, Piano Sonata No. 2    Jean Sibelius, Selections from Five Pieces for Piano (“The Trees”), Op. 75  Alexander Scriabin, Valse, Op. 38  Alexander Scriabin, Feuillet d’album from Three Pieces, Op. 45  Alexander Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, Op. 30  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
13
2023

Michelle Ravitsky, soprano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Pamela Hinchman  Daniel Rosman, clarinet; Jason Carlson, piano  Lili Boulanger, Selections from Clairières dans le ciel  Franz Schubert, “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” (The Shepherd on the Rock), D. 965  Sergei Rachmaninoff, Six Romances, Op. 38  Kurt Weill, “Wie lange noch?”  Kurt Weill, “Youkali” from Tango Habanera  John Kander, “A Letter from Sullivan Ballou”  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
14
2023

Annie Burgett, soprano

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Samuel Krausz, tenor; Daniel Szefer, piano  W. A. Mozart, Laudamus Te from Mass in C Minor, K. 427  Claude Debussy, Ariettes oubliées, L. 60  Jake Heggie, “Once More—To Gloriana” (Prologue) from Songs to the Moon  Jake Heggie, “Even” from Eve-Songs  Jake Heggie, “Joy Alone (Connection)” from Natural Selection  Hugo Wolf, Selections from Mörike-Lieder, Book I  Charles Gounod, “Va! Je t’ai pardonné” from Roméo et Juliette  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Nathan Savant, baritone

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Michelle Wong, piano  Franz Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 

May
14
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
14
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
14
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
14
2023

Maggie Jordan, violin

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang and Ke Wang, piano  Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78  Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35   Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Rena Maduro, soprano

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Jason Carlson, piano  Amy Beach, Three Browning Songs, Op. 44  Sergei Rachmaninoff, Selections from 12 Romances, Op. 21      “Lilacs” (No. 5)      “How Fair This Spot” (No. 7)  Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Vocalise” (No. 14) from 14 Romances, Op. 24  Georges Bizet, “La Coccinelle” (No. 16) from 20 Mélodies, Op. 21  Georges Bizet, “Ouvre ton coeur”  Vincenzo Bellini, “Oh! quante volte” from I Capuleti e I Montecchi  Vincenzo Bellini, Selections from 15 Songs for Voice      “La farfalletta” (No. 9)       “Vaga luna, che inargenti” (No. 14)  Claude Debussy, Selections from Quatre chansons de jeunesse       “Clair de lune” (No. 2)       “Pierrot” (No. 4)  Claude Debussy, “Nuit d’étoiles”  Luigi Arditi, Il bacio 

May
14
2023

Northwestern Camerata

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston

Victoria Marshall, conductor  The Northwestern Camerata performs music of Thomas Ravenscroft, Montague Phillips, Howard Skempton, Vincent Persichetti, and Timothy Corlis in a program celebrating images of birds in spring.

May
14
2023

Annamarie Collins, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Andrea Liu, violin; Sofia Schiffer, viola; Sophie Denhard, bass  Joseph Haydn, Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:48  Johannes Brahms, Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119  Lera Auerbach, Selections from 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 41  Astor Piazzolla (arr. Clint Edwards), Selections from Estaciones Porteñas  Cécile Chaminade, Arabesque No. 1, Op. 61  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Morgan Small, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Thomas Hubel, trumpet; Jason Carlson, piano  George Frideric Handel, “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson  Richard Strauss, Selected songs  Reynaldo Hahn, Selected songs  Luigi Arditi, “Il bacio”  Felix Mendelssohn, Selected songs  Gaetano Donizetti, Selected songs  Giuseppe Verdi, “Caro nome” from Rigoletto  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Claire O’Shaughnessy, soprano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Karen Brunssen  Teresa Kang, piano  Henry Purcell, The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation  Vincenzo Bellini, Selected ariettas  Joaquín Rodrigo, Cuatro madrigales amatorios  Richard Strauss, Ophelia Lieder  Claude Debussy, Quatre chansons de jeunesse  Léo Delibes, “Les filles de Cadix”  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
14
2023

Michelle Mariposa, mezzo-soprano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  James Kim, oboe; Marian Antonette Mayuga and Ran Huo, violin; Facundo Ortega, viola; Ezra Escobar, cello; Charles Foster, piano and organ  Olivier Messiaen, Selections from Harawi—Chant d’amour et de mort  Ottorino Respighi, Il tramonto  J. S. Bach, Selections from Ich habe genug, BWV 82 Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
15
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
15
2023

Findlay Fellowship Application Deadline

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM, No Location

  We are delighted to announce the second annual call for applications to the Findlay Fellowship for graduate study in the United Kingdom. Northwestern alumnus and trustee D. Cameron Findlay with his wife, Amy Scalera Findlay, generously endowed this fellowship to allow a new generation of Wildcats a similarly transformative experience to that Mr. Findlay enjoyed as a UK Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford. This year’s fellow will receive $22K.   Eligibility: ·        Will graduate from Northwestern with a bachelor’s degree in June 2023 ·        Has been accepted to a master’s degree program at a UK university to begin in autumn 2023 ·        Does not hold a full funding package from another source Application: ·        A 300-word statement covering the candidate’s suitability to serve as an ambassador for Northwestern in the UK and thereafter ·        Documents confirming admission to a graduate program for autumn 2023 ·        Copy of accepted petition to graduate in June 2023 ·        Copy of application submitted to the proposed graduate program ·        Current transcript ·        Current resume ·        A budget containing o   Total cost of attendance with supporting documentation o   Amounts from other awards secured with supporting documentation o   Amounts from pending applications and expected notification dates Email all materials in a single PDF to e-pardoe@northwestern.edu

May
15
2023

Roger Boye Oxbridge Bursary Application Deadline

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM, No Location

The Roger Boye Oxbridge Bursary grants $1000 to a graduating NU senior, who has been admitted to either Oxford or Cambridge University. Students who have secured full funding for degrees at Oxford or Cambridge are ineligible for this award. In order to apply, you must submit: • Copy of your completed application to Oxford/Cambridge • Letter(s)of acceptance from your degree program • The status of your college placement • Most recent transcript(s) • Most recent resume/C.V. Email applications to e-pardoe@northwestern.edu

May
15
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
15
2023

IPR Colloq. with J. Collins (Feinberg) - The Racial Disparity in Adverse Birth Outcomes

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston

"The Racial Disparity in Adverse Birth Outcomes: Putting the Spotlight on Structural Racism"* by James W. Collins, Jr., Zeisler Family Neonatology Leadership Professor and Professor of Pediatrics This colloquium is part of the Fay Lomax Cook Monday Spring 2023 Colloquium Series. Please note all colloquia this quarter will be held in-person only. * This presentation will cover work in progress.

May
15
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
15
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

May
15
2023

Exploring Watercolor

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Exploring watercolor takes you from A - Z in understanding watercolor painting, from overcoming the "fear" of the white paper, to using some "tricks" to achieving exciting results. YES....you CAN correct in watercolor painting! Instructor: Ingrid Albrecht

May
15
2023

Isabella Abbrescia, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Pamela Hinchman  Annie Burgett, soprano; Mark May, tenor; Geoffrey Schmelzer, baritone; Jason Carlson, piano  Richard Strauss, “Morgen!,” Op. 27, No. 4   Richard Strauss, “Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten,” Op. 19, No. 4  Richard Strauss, “Ich schwebe,” Op. 48, No. 2  Richard Strauss, “Die nacht,” Op. 10, No. 3  Jake Heggie, Selections from Eve-Song  Claude Debussy, Selections from Fêtes galantes  W. A. Mozart, Excerpts from Le nozze di Figaro  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
15
2023

Mindfulness and Meditation

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

This course will introduce techniques and philosophy to cultivate a lifestyle of awareness and relief through mindfulness and meditation. Guided by Buddhism teaching, participants will learn breathing techniques for everyday use and time of stress. Participants will explore and gain a deeper understanding of self and learn how to cope with trauma and everyday anxiety. Instructor: Rongxi Ren

May
15
2023

Evening of Brass

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Gail Williams, director  Music written and arranged for brass ensemble.

May
15
2023

Alex Chao, percussion

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Haddon Kay, cello; Alan Cheng, percussion  Jennifer Jolley, How to be a Deep Thinker in Los Angeles  John Fitz Rogers, Once Removed  Alex Chao, TunePad  Andy Akiho, 21  Csaba Zoltán Marján, Lemuria—The Fallen Civilization  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
15
2023

Alexi Ortega Chavez, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Jonathan Gmeinder, piano  Henri Duparc, “L’invitation au voyage”  Henri Duparc, “Soupir”  Henri Duparc, “Phidylé”  Henri Duparc, “Le manoir de Rosemonde”  Jesús Guridi, selections from Seis Canciones Castellanas   Kurt Weill, “Lonely House” from Street Scene  Leonard Bernstein, “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story  Leonard Bernstein, “Agony” from Into the Woods  Jules Massenet, “Allez, laissez-moi seul” from Cendrillon  Jules Massenet, “En fermant les yeux” from Manon Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
16
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
16
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
16
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
16
2023

Well-being Break: Total Body Workout

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Cerina for a 30-minute full-body cardio and strength workout, using body weight & common household items for "weights". All you need is a little space & proper footwear.

May
16
2023

STEM Fellowships for Graduate Study

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online

Join us to learn about external STEM fellowships for graduate study. NSF-GRFP, NDSEG, and other relevant fellowships will be discussed. Open to rising undergraduate seniors and early career graduate students. Please register to attend. Questions? Contact LaTanya Williams in the Office of Fellowships at latanya.williams@northwestern.edu.

May
16
2023

Solidari-Tea: Gender Based Violence in Asian American Communities with KAN-WIN

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online

Come join us as we invite KAN-WIN for a presentation and dialogue on gender-based violence in Asian American communities. This presentation will focus on a timeline originally created by KAN-WIN interns Jessica Liu and Lillian Guo in 2019. The timeline details the ongoing history of Asian American involvement with movements to end domestic and sexual violence as well as the history behind said violence. KAN-WIN is a community organization based in Chicago-land and aims to end gender-based violence with a focus on Asian women and girls. They do this through resources such as direct service, community education, organizing, youth engagement, and the creation of a 24-hour hotline. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized in partnership between Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA), KAN-WIN, SPEAK for Change, and the Center for Awareness, Response & Education (CARE) at Northwestern University.

May
16
2023

Introduction to Handbuilding

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

In this class, we will spend six weeks creating functional ceramic pieces! You will build by hand using the three main types of hand built clay construction, pinching, coiling and slab. We will also explore Kurinuki. We will work with the glazes available in the studio and learn proper glaze procedures. We will look also at various surface decoration techniques, such as so that your pieces will be truly one of a kind! Instructor: Patty Marfise-Patt

May
16
2023

Pocket Billiards for Beginners

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

These lessons are tailored to players who range from beginner level to advanced. You will learn topics ranging from mastering fundamentals to difficult shots and game strategies. Instructor: Larry Schwartz

May
16
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
16
2023

Philip M and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

"American Shtetl: The Intriguing Story of Kiryas Joel,   A Booming Hasidic Town in Suburban New York"   David N. Myers, Distinguished Professor of History and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA Nomi M. Stolzenberg, Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law  

May
16
2023

Olivier Elkan, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Sylvia Wang  Claude Debussy, Bruyères from Préludes, Book 2  Sergei Rachmaninoff, Selections from Preludes, Op. 23  Ludwig van Beethoven, Eroica Variations, Op. 35  Franz Liszt, Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
17
2023

Global Health Education Day

All day, Chicago

Global Health Education Day is an exciting opportunity to draw together global health researchers, educators, and students. Led by the Havey IGH Center for Global Health Education, the day's events will include a poster session, luncheon, an informative workshop, and prominent guest speakers. Global Health Education Day 2023 will be held on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 in the Prentice Women's Hospital Conference Center.  Keynote Address by Dr. Andrew Pinto & Dr. Ross Upshur 2:00 - 3:00p.m. CDT Conference Room L South

May
17
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
17
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
17
2023

Gender Inclusive Language Workshop - Chicago

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Chicago

OIDI and the Women's Center are hosting three all-campus workshops in alignment with the new Systems Update Project.  Participants will practice varied pronoun usage and learn about gender identity and expression.    Space is limited for in-person workshops. Register Early!

May
17
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
17
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
17
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
17
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
17
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

May
17
2023

Fulbright Application Workshop for Study/Research awards

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Online

Interested in Fulbright Study/Research & Arts Awards? Attend this meeting to learn how Fulbright can transform your life and pursuits.  You will hear about the history of the Fulbright program, understand the core values that animate the Fulbright competition, review various kinds of awards, and hear about the Northwestern University application process and timeline. Get all your Fulbright questions answered!

May
17
2023

APIDA Movie Night - Everything Everywhere All at Once

5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Join us in the free screening of the biggest blockbuster movie of the year, Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). Movie Synopsis: A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led. Trailer: Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24 This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized in partnership between Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) and Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at Northwestern University.

May
17
2023

Applied Acting in Corporate Presentations

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL BUSINESS PRESENTATION CLASS! This is an acting class taught by a multi-award-winning film director who uses theatrical acting exercises and improv games to address presence/movement/gesture, conquer nervousness, and develop a voice with the intent of adding to your business presentation skills. Participants will experience feelings, learn to trust instincts and intuition, experience acting, movement, body language, tone, pace, rhythm, and apply it all in ways that cause effective communication. Instructor: Steven Fischer

May
17
2023

Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Beth Willer, conductor; Jack Reeder, assistant conductor; Charles Foster, keyboard Beth Willer is among the leading commissioners and conductors of new choral music in the US. Having just completed a tour with her ensemble Lorelei at the orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Nashville, Willer conducts BCE in selections from Wally Gunn’s The Ascendant, which the composer describes as “a combination of polyphonic patterns and processes, blended with the angularity and clarity of rock music harmonies and forms.” The music is compelling and rhythmic, paired in this program with music of the 17th century: Orlando Di Lasso’s heart-wrenching Lagrime di San Pietro.

May
17
2023

Cameron Marquez, percussion

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of She-e Wu  John Dawson, percussion  Bruno Mantovani, Moi, jeu...  Philippe Hurel, Loops II  Thomas Kotcheff, 5ERVO  Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds A & B  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
17
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
17
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section A

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
17
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
17
2023

Robert Chien, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Franz Schubert, “Duo” Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 162  Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
17
2023

Thomas Filipiuk, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in A Major, K. 212  Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in B Minor, K. 87  Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in A Major, K. 24  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in E-flat Major (“Les Adieux”), Op. 81a  Frederic Rzewski, “Down by the riverside” from North American Ballads  Frédéric Chopin, Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60  Alexander Scriabin, Sonata No. 10, Op. 70  Mily Balakirev, Islamey  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
18
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
18
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
18
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
18
2023

Investigations into Music Intervention Approaches in Neurology

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Registration required. **ZOOM ONLY** In this presentation, Borna Bonakdarpour, MD, and Clara Takarabe, CMP, will discuss the usage of music interventions in clinical neurologic settings in the hospital and for individuals with cognitive disorders. Results from their current work in Northwestern Memorial Hospital and their experience with individuals with dementia will be discussed. Guests: Borna Bonakdarpour, MD, FAAN, FANA Associate Professor of Neurology Director, Northwestern Music and Medicine Program Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer Disease Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Clara Takarabe, CMP Co-Director, Northwestern Music and Medicine Program Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine This seminar is part of the Osher Center Grand Rounds, which is a collaboration between the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) and the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University.  For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham

May
18
2023

Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Lessons from the Past and Guidance for the Future - Rachel Einwhoner

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents A Montgomery Lecture With Rachel L. Einwohner, PhD Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Political Science Purdue University – West Lafayette, IN Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust:  Lessons from the Past and Guidance for the Future Most popular accounts of the Holocaust depict Jewish people as passive victims who went to their deaths “like sheep.” A common question is, “Why didn’t they resist?” In this talk, I ask the opposite question: Why did Jewish people resist? I pose the question this way because from the perspective of theory and research on social movements, collective Jewish resistance should not have happened. By comparing resistance efforts in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Vilna, and Łódź, I argue that decisions about resistance rested on ghetto residents’ assessments of the threats facing them; armed resistance took place only once activists reached the critical conclusion that they had no hope for survival. An examination of Jewish resistance carries lessons for contemporary action in a variety of settings, including resistance by health care professionals against state restrictions in medical procedures. In-person attendance is open to the Northwestern Community: Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 East Superior Street, Chicago Campus). Zoom attendance is open to all. Registration required. ** PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK** REGISTER HERE Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements    

May
18
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
18
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
18
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
18
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

May
18
2023

Artistic Expression and Processing Emotion with Malin (@madebymalin)

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, No Location

Join us as we have the honor of inviting artist and digital creator Malin Uttamobol (@madebymalin): “Hi friends! Join us for an exciting therapeutic art workshop designed to help you explore your creativity through artistic expression! This is an excellent opportunity for you to work with various artistic mediums, tap into your inner world, and express yourself in a safe and supportive environment. Everyone is welcome – bring a friend or two! All materials will be provided for you, and no prior experience is required. Whether you're seeking personal growth, stress relief, or simply a fun time with friends, this workshop is definitely for you :) Join us and discover the wonderful world of therapeutic art!” To learn more about Malin, check out her website: https://madebymalin.com/pages/about This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized by the Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University.

May
18
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
18
2023

Sam Williams, horn

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Kimmi Hebdon, horn; Kirsten Lee and Robert Chien, violin; Michael Ayala, viola; Zachary Keum, cello; Kay Kim, piano  Paul Hindemith, Sonate  Bram Fisher, Miss Burton (and I)  Fiona Bennett, Romance in C  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sextet in E-flat Major, Op. 81b  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
18
2023

Sofia Ricciarini, soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Nancy Gustafson  Olga Sklyanskaya, piano  W. A. Mozart, “Laudamus te” from Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427  Gioachino Rossini, Selections from Soirées musicales  Gioachino Rossini, “Una voce poco fa” from Il barbiere di Siviglia  Francis Poulenc, Fiançailles pour rire  Richard Strauss, Selections from 8 Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter,” Op. 10, No. 1  Richard Strauss, “Heimliche Aufforderung” from 4 Lieder, Op. 27  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
18
2023

Wheel Throwing III (Advanced)

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing III is for students who have completed multiple intermediate sessions, and are ready for more independence as an artist. Students will be working on several larger projects that aim at discussing concepts, meaning, and aesthetics. Students should expect to begin working on a portfolio that showcases their concepts clearly. This course aims to grow students' understanding of ceramics as art. Students will be involved in creating an environment for ceramic art practices to bloom. This course is for dedicated artists looking to expand their concepts. Students will begin a social media account where they will share their works in progress, making work videos, and final products. *Prerequisites: have taken an intermediate wheel throwing class Instructor: Ranch Ward

May
18
2023

Wine Appreciation - Section B

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Welcome to the world of wine!  Whether you’re new to wine or an old hand, there is always something new in the wine world. During each class, students will learn to taste and describe wines just like the professionals. Vinicultural areas in California, France, and the Southern Hemisphere are always featured along with new discoveries. Wine and food matches are heavily emphasized. Finally, a night of sparkling and dessert wines ends the five-week course. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
18
2023

Contemporary Music Ensemble

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Ben Bolter and Alan Pierson, conductors; Ben LaMar Gay, guest composer The ensemble’s final concert of the academic year features a world premiere composed by—and featuring—guest composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay, praised by Pitchfork for “elevating the diverse sounds of Earth to the heavens.” Also on the program are Andrew Norman’s Try, a musical portrait of creative risk-taking, and the world premiere of Andrew Maxbauer’s untitled (lontano).

May
18
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
18
2023

Spring Wines

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

Taste and discuss fun, lighter wines of spring with varietals including Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir, and Sparkling Wines. *You must be 21 and over to enroll in this course. Instructor: Mark Gruber

May
18
2023

Mia Huang, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Lyudmila Lakisova, piano  Jonathan Bailey Holland, Opus One (Solo Violin)  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
19
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
19
2023

Resistance: The Sixth Annual Northwestern Bioethics and Medical Humanities Conference

8:45 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program are hosting a one-day conference dedicated to engaging the Northwestern and Chicagoland communities in the rich, multidisciplinary research and scholarship of our field. ///// An exciting lineup of presentations and discussions--centered around this year's theme: RESISTANCE--will showcase diverse work by a mix of Northwestern Medicine clinicians and researchers, colleagues from other Chicagoland institutions, and alumni of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics graduate program. ///// In our keynote presentation, Louise P. King, MD, JD (Harvard Medical School) and Katie Watson, JD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) will consider clinicians’ options and obligations in response to criminal laws prohibiting the provision of abortion care. When legislatures pit the freedom and livelihood of clinicians against the health and self-determination of pregnant people, what could or should resistance look like? ///// For updated details, please visit: https://bioethics.northwestern.edu/conference/

May
19
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
19
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
19
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
19
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
19
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
19
2023

Master of Public Health: Community-Based Project Poster Session

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

May 19 | 3-5 PM Simpson Querrey Atrium | 303 E Superior, Chicago The Master of Public Health (MPH) program at Northwestern University invites you to attend our biannual Applied Practice Experience (APEx) presentation event. - Refreshments will be provided! - RSVP to dakota.chisholm@northwestern.edu - Parking passes available to community organizations CELEBRATE Celebrate our MPH students' accomplishments as they present their Applied Practice Experience (APEx) project, a community-based project that aims to meet the needs of a community partner organization and the populations it serves. LEARN Learn about the wide range of public health projects happening in Chicago and beyond. NETWORK Network with  members of the public health community at Northwestern and at community organizations across the Chicagoland area.

May
19
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Chantal Chuba

May
19
2023

Eliana Kim, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liangyu Wang, piano  W. A. Mozart, Sonata No. 21 in E Minor, K. 304  Franz Waxman, Carmen Fantasie  Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
19
2023

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Mallory Thompson, conductor The Symphonic Wind Ensemble concludes its performance season with a program exploring childlike innocence and imagination. Eugène Bozza’s Children’s Overture reflects the often boisterous essence of childhood. Set to text by American poet Anthony Silvestri and arguably one of Eric Whitacre’s most famous works, Sleep, with its rich harmonies, portrays a mind giving way to slumber. Equally popular in the contemporary music and wind band worlds, composer Viet Cuong explains that his work Moth “...seeks inspiration from the dualities between light and dark, beautiful and grotesque, reality and fantasy, and the ultimate decision to sacrifice sensibility for grace.” The center of the program is David Maslanka’s monumental A Child’s Garden of Dreams. Commissioned by former Northwestern University Director of Bands John Paynter and his wife Marrieta, the work is a musical depiction of the odd, fanciful, and troubling dreams of a 10-year-old child who had yet to experience life. Eugène Bozza, Children’s Overture Eric Whitacre, Sleep Viet Cuong, Moth David Maslanka, A Child’s Garden of Dreams

May
19
2023

University Singers: Perpetual Light

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

A.J. Keller and Logan Henke, conductors; Charles Foster, piano A program exploring the myriad meanings and associations of light in choral works from the Renaissance through the 21st century, including music of Morten Lauridsen, Anton Bruckner, Arvo Pärt, and Gabriel Fauré.

May
19
2023

Ruud Roelofsen, composition

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition  Student of Alex Mincek  Ruud Roelofsen, on intimacy II  Ruud Roelofsen, on intimacy IV “mozaïek”  Ruud Roelofsen, EVP  Ruud Roelofsen, Wraith IV  Ruud Roelofsen, Excerpts from Daydreamy  Ruud Roelofsen, Surface Studies  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
19
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

May
20
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
20
2023

Wheel Throwing I (Beginner) - Section C

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Students will be introduced to the basic principles of making functional ceramic art. In this course, students will begin with the process of wheel throwing with detailed instruction on how to throw a cylinder, bowl, and much more. The kinesthetic process of pottery will be explored through developing technical skills on the wheel as well as understanding the function of various forms developed throughout the history of ceramics. Learn how to make functional work that you can use at home as foodware for yourself, friends, or family. This course is for students who have never worked with clay before and is the perfect introduction to wheel throwing. Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
20
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
20
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
20
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
20
2023

Wheel Throwing One-Day Workshop: Section C

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Want to dip your hands in a little clay? Come join us for a two-hour workshop where you'll learn the fundamental steps of throwing. Participants will get to throw as much as they can, but will only be choosing one piece to keep. Participants will get to choose from 4 different glaze colors to match their perfect creation. Projects will be available for pick up two weeks from the workshop's completion. No experience is required! Instructor: Sylvia Tan

May
21
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
21
2023

Rose Marie Haselhorst, violin

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Jessie Montgomery, Rhapsody No. 1 for Solo Violin  Béla Bartók, Selections from Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112  Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major (“Kreutzer”), Op. 47  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
21
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
21
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
21
2023

Marguerite Lynn Williams, harp

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Yukie Ota, flute; Raquel Coleman, Christopher Minn, Amy Shlyak, Emily Stone, and Ksenia Sushkevich, harp Principal harpist of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, Marguerite Lynn Williams has been praised for her “ravishing harp artistry” (Charleston Today) and “seamless technical polish and lyric sensitivity” (Chicago Classical Review). An avid chamber musician, Williams is a founding member of the Chicago Harp Quartet, International Chamber Artists, and harp and flute duo La Folia. Her program, with guest flutist Yukie Ota and the Bienen Harp Ensemble, includes the world premiere of Matthew Barnson’s Amphora Poses (written for and dedicated to Williams) and Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango.

May
21
2023

Anjali Covill, clarinet

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Kaissy Yau, flute; Natalie Johnson, oboe; Matthew Melillo, bassoon; Michael Wattai, horn; Ke Wang, piano  Charles-Marie Widor, Introduction et rondo, Op. 72  Clara Schumann (arr. Mark Thiel), Three Romances, Op. 22  Luigi Bassi, Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi’s Opera Rigoletto  Jean Françaix, Wind Quintet No. 1  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

Fiona Shonik, trumpet

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of David Bilger  Bethany Vaughan and Troy Archer, trumpet; Emmett Conway, horn; Griffin Rupp, trombone; Noah Vincent, tuba; Blake Parker, percussion J. F. Fasch, Trumpet Concerto in D Major  Aaron DuBois, a new work  Franz Joseph Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major  Derek Jacoby, Selections from Sketches for trumpet and percussion  J. S. Bach (trans. Robert Nagel), Chorale Prelude for Brass Quintet  Anthony DiLorenzo, Go  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

Concert Band

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Daniel J. Farris, conductor Talented students from across the Northwestern campus present a concert of band standards.

May
21
2023

Alice Millar Spring Festival Concert: Handel's Ode to St. Cecilia

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir and soloists; Baroque Music Ensemble  This year’s lively Spring Festival Concert brings together incomparable Handel choral music and Italian instrumental works. Composed in 1739, Handel’s Ode to St. Cecilia exalts the wonder and beauty of music itself in depictive arias and stirring choruses. Rounding out this joyful evening are Antonio Vivaldi’s sparkling Flute Concerto in D Major, “Il gardellino,” and Giovanni Legrenzi’s Prima Sonata for four violins and continuo. 

May
21
2023

Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston

Hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, the Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration is an annual spring event to gather in community to share and recognize the yearly contributions of Native and Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members whom ensure Northwestern University is a welcoming and inclusive place for Native and Indigenous Peoples. This year's event will be held on Sunday, May 21, 2023. 

May
21
2023

Philip Kleutgens, saxophone

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Taimur Sullivan  Nathan Canfield, piano  Fernande Decruck, Sonata in C-sharp Major  Alexander Glazunov, Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 109  Fuminori Tanada, Mysterious Morning III  J. S. Bach (trans. Philip Kleutgens), Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 1031  Gabriel Fauré (arr. Brian Kachur), Élégie, Op. 24  Giacinto Scelsi, Maknongan  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

Meredith Steele, Caleb Wong, and Alexander Chen, orchestral conducting and cello

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston

Masters of Music  Students of Hans Jørgen Jensen and Donald Schleicher  Joseph Haydn, Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb/1  Joseph Haydn, Cello Concerto No. 2in D Major, Hob. VIIb/2  Antonio Vivaldi, Double Concerto in G Minor, RV 531  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

David Wolfe, baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Charles Foster, piano  Samuel Barber, “Dover Beach,” Op. 3  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Select Romances  Ture Rangström, Kung Eriks Visor  Gabriel Fauré, L’horizon chimérique, Op. 118  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
21
2023

McKenna Damato Troy, soprano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Karen Brunssen  Annie Burgett, soprano; Skye Tarshis and Emily Amesquita, mezzo-soprano; Sam Krausz, tenor; Luke Mott, baritone; Noah Stone, clarinet; Amy Shlyak, harp; Teresa Kang, piano  W. A. Mozart, “Pa-Pa-Pa-Papageno" from Die Zauberflöte  Ricky Ian Gordon, Once I Was  Claude Debussy, “Beau soir”  Gabriel Fauré, Selections from La chanson d’Ève, Op. 95  Giuseppe Verdi, Selections from Falstaff  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
22
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
22
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
22
2023

Third Coast CFAR Seminar and Community Event: Increasing PrEP Awareness and Use for People in the Criminal Justice System

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Description: Drs. Russell Brewer and Chad Zawitz will present their Ending the HIV Epidemic supplement project to the Third Coast CFAR, “Preparing for PrEP scale-out in criminal justice settings.” Immediately following the seminar, they will participate in a Community Learning Series event, co-sponsored by the Third Coast CFAR and the Village. The Village is a community space within the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE) that provides a safe space, supportive services, health education, and linkage to care for Black, LGBQ, and TGNC people on the South and West Sides of Chicago. The Village’s staff and clients will attend the event. About the Presenters: Dr. Brewer is a research associate professor at the University of Chicago and director of health equity research at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination. Dr. Zawitz is an infectious disease specialist at Cermak Health Services and senior physician and clinical coordinator of HIV and infectious diseases services at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center. He also serves as physician chair of the Infection Control and Communicable Diseases Department and director of the Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment Program at Stroger Hospital and the CORE Center.

May
22
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
22
2023

Fireside Chat with Beatrice Fihn, Former Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-Winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Please join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs for a fireside chat with Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. She led the campaign for nearly a decade and worked to mobilize civil society throughout the development of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons. Previously, she managed the disarmament program at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Reaching Critical Will project, and worked with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Fihn holds a master’s degree in law from the University of London and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Stockholm University. A reception with wine, cheese and other refreshments will follow the in-person program. You may register to attend virtually or register to attend in person.

May
22
2023

Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind - Kim Tallbear

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind - Kim Tallbear Co-presentend by the Science in Human Culture Program's Klopsteg Lecture Series and the Kaplan Humanities Institute's 2022-2023 Dialogue, ENERGIES: A year-long conversation about energies—personal, collective, planetary—from different humanistic perspectives. Much of this talk is written in the voice of IZ, a character Kim TallBear introduced in the 2016 chapter, “Dear Indigenous Studies, It’s Not Me, It’s You: Why I Left and What Needs to Change.” IZ represents the evolving field that began as American Indian or Native American studies in the United States in the later twentieth century. Today, a later disciplinary iteration, Critical Indigenous Studies, represents a coming together of multiple “Indigenous self determination and sovereignty political movements” around the world, as described by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, wherein “Indigenous scholars began to define the terms of their intellectual engagement within universities” (2016: 7). The IZ whom TallBear spoke to in the 2016 essay, and from whose collective body she performs this talk, has grown into a twenty-first-century expanding discipline. As Moreton-Robinson writes, our “object of study is colonizing power in its multiple forms, whether the gaze is on Indigenous issues or on Western knowledge production” (2016: 4) In this talk, TallBear's object of study and critical polydisciplinamorous engagement is a scientist character who searches for signs of “intelligent” life off-Earth. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) (she/her) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena. You can follow her research group at https://indigenoussts.com/. She tweets @KimTallBear. You can also follow her monthly posts on her Substack newsletter, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs, cultural politics & (de)colonization. 

May
22
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

May
22
2023

Kevin Chen, percussion

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of She-e Wu  José G. Martínez, Monologue IV: Bilingualism  Christopher Deane, The Apocryphal Still Life Vinko Globokar, ?Corporel  Alejandro Viñao, Khan Variations  Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds A  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
22
2023

Yu-Tien Chou, bass trombone

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, R. Douglas Wright, and Timothy Higgins  Yoko Yamada, piano  Ernst Sachse (arr. Martin Göss), Concerto in F Major  Johann Ernst Galliard, Sonata No. 5 in D Minor  Richard Strauss, “Cäcilie,” Op. 27, No. 2  Richard Strauss, “Allerseelen,” Op. 10, No. 8  Richard Strauss, “Morgen!,” Op. 27, No. 4  Daniela Candillari, Extremely Close  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
22
2023

Alexander Carroll, double bass

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Andrew Raciti  Calvin Liu, violin; Nathan Canfield, piano  Xavier Foley, Etude No. 12, “Reconstruction”  Antonio Vivaldi (arr. Paul Ellison), Cello Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 14, RV 46  Johan Halvorsen, Passacaglia, Op. 20, No. 2  Giovanni Bottesini, Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B Minor  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
22
2023

Andrew Maxbauer, composition

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition  Student of Hans Thomalla  Noah Jenkins, viola  Andrew Maxbauer, untitled (May)  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
22
2023

Minsoo Kang, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of James Giles  Claude Debussy, Images, Book 1  Frédéric Chopin, 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33  Béla Bartók, Out of Doors, Sz. 81  Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
23
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
23
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
23
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
23
2023

Daniel Szefer, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of James Giles  Karol Szymanowski, Métopes, Op. 29  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90  Olivier Messiaen, Selections from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
23
2023

Mingyue Fei, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47  W. A. Mozart, Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Major, KV. 454  Johannes Brahms, Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor, Op. 108  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
23
2023

William Fowler, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, and Randall Hawes  Yoko Yamada, piano  Frank Martin, Ballade  Jean-Michel Defaye, Deux danses  Ferdinand David, Trombone Concertino  Arthur Pryor, Thoughts of Love 

May
23
2023

Yun Qu Tan, saxophone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Taimur Sullivan  Philip Kleutgens, baritone saxophone; Nathan Canfield and Elizabeth Low, piano  Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia for Flute No. 11 in G Major, TWV 40:11  Maurice Ravel (arr. David Walter), Sonatine  Giacinto Scelsi, Tre pezzi  Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Yo Matsushita), Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66  Jacques Ibert, Concertino da camera  Ryo Noda, Improvisation II  Piet Swerts, Klonos  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
24
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
24
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
24
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
24
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
24
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
24
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
24
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

May
24
2023

Alexander R. Mullins, bass trombone

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy  Randall Hawes, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano  Norman Bolter, Sagittarius 2  Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonnet 66 from Op. 62  Fabien Gabel, Fantaisie dans le style de Richard Strauss  Florence Price, “Fantasy in Purple”  Emily Dickinson (arr. Michael Hennagin), selections from Three Emily Dickinson Songs for Two Bass Trombones        I. “Heart, We Will Never Forget Him”        II. “The World Feels Dusty”  Alexey Lebedev, Concerto in One Movement  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
24
2023

Applied Acting in Corporate Presentations

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL BUSINESS PRESENTATION CLASS! This is an acting class taught by a multi-award-winning film director who uses theatrical acting exercises and improv games to address presence/movement/gesture, conquer nervousness, and develop a voice with the intent of adding to your business presentation skills. Participants will experience feelings, learn to trust instincts and intuition, experience acting, movement, body language, tone, pace, rhythm, and apply it all in ways that cause effective communication. Instructor: Steven Fischer

May
24
2023

Daniel Gostein, percussion

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Charles Wuorinen, Janissary Music  Yasuo Sueyoshi, Mirage  Arnold Marinissen, Totem  William Hibbard, Schickstück  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
24
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section A

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
24
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section A

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Tomoyasu Nakano

May
24
2023

Introduction to Pole Dance - Section B

7:45 PM - 9:15 PM, Evanston

This course is designed to introduce students to the art of Pole Dance! They will learn fundamental conditioning moves, and basic dance techniques, as well as many foundational spins and movements designed to increase body awareness, overall strength, and flexibility. The course is designed for true beginners and is open to all levels of fitness and backgrounds! This course is presented in partnership with Polerize. Instructor: Brittany Jenkins

May
24
2023

Alex Whitehead, clarinet

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Todd Levy and Stephen Williamson  Louis Milne, E-flat clarinet; Anjali Covill, clarinet; Noah Stone, bass clarinet; Yoko Yamada, piano  Witold Lutoslawski, Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano  Krzysztof Penderecki, Three Miniatures for clarinet and piano  Amanda Harberg, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano  Astor Piazzolla, Histoire du tango for clarinet quartet  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
24
2023

Lucas Zurbuchen, double bass

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Andrew Raciti  Nathanael Canfield, piano  Xavier Foley, Etude No. 5, “The Mystery”  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010  Andrés Martín, Concerto No. 1 for Double Bass  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
25
2023

Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and Television

All day, Evanston

Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Northwestern Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts, and supported by the Northwestern University Office of the Provost's N. W. Harris Lecture Fund.   PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, MAY 25 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and Keynote with Ana Antic: “Searching for Trauma: Narratives and Politics of Loss and Suffering in Eastern Europe” Ana Antiç is a Professor in the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Author of Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New World Order, and the forthcoming Non-aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War: Revolution, Emancipation, and Re-imagining the Human Psyche. Her articles include "Decolonising madness: Transcultural Psychiatry, International Order, and the Birth of a Global Psyche in the Aftermath of WWII," and "Pedagogy of workers' self-management: Terror, therapy and reform Communism after the Tito-Stalin split."   3:00 p.m. | Coffee and Panel Discussion with Robin Means Coleman, Miriam Petty, Ana Antiç and Peter Locke: "The Trauma Trope" Trauma has become a defining feature of contemporary storytelling across all mediums. Film and television, in particular, use trauma as a framework for explicating a protagonist’s motivations, as well as to reach towards a preconceived audience of survivors. Indeed, the trauma plot is a narrative template that argues for the individuality of trauma while also asserting its universality. Moreover, film is inextricably linked to our contemporary understanding of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, especially with the idea of the “flashback,” a term that belongs to both the cinematic and clinical vocabulary of trauma. This panel brings together scholars to discuss, analyze and debate the entanglements of trauma and visual culture. What does it mean to expand our cultural idea of trauma to include such a diverse array of experiences? Is the empathy evoked by traumatic narratives always ethical? Does imagery of trauma cultivate voyeuristic desire?   5:00 p.m. | Buffet Dinner at The Block Museum   6:00 p.m. | Screening of No Go Backs and A Thousand Years Ago   8:00 p.m. |  Panel Discussion with Michael Metzger, Zayd Dohrn, Jake Smith and Edgar Jorge Baralt: "Climate Change, Eco-Anxiety and Catastrophe Media" Co-Sponsored with the Climate Crisis + Media Arts Northwestern Buffett Global Working Group  

May
25
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
25
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
25
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
25
2023

Distinguishing Research and Data Equity from Justice

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Registration required. **ZOOM ONLY** Equity and justice are often used interchangeably, despite their meaningful differences. This is especially true in research and data approaches intended to support communities of color. In this presentation, Community Researcher Dr. Andres Lopez provides conceptual differences between equity and justice in community research and data work and a framework for how both can support one another. Critical examples of research and data equity and justice in the context of dominant institutors and community-based organizations are explored, along with crucial elements of power-sharing, collaboration, resourcing, data sovereignty, self-determination, and desired-based approaches. Attendees will better understand how and why supporting research and data equity and justice efforts matter now more than ever. Guests: Andres Lopez, PhD Research Director Coalition of Communities of Color Portland, OR This seminar is co-hosted by the IPHAM Center for Community Health.  For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham

May
25
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
25
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
25
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
25
2023

What's the Cake, What's the Slice? - MK Czerwiec

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago

The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Presents A Montgomery Lecture With MK Czerwiec, RN, MA Graphic Medicine International Collective Alum, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Nurse cartoonist, MK Czerwiec, will share updates from the field of graphic medicine, including some discussion of her next book project which may or may not deal with moral development, adoption, coming out, caring for the dying, and having difficult conversations. In-person attendance is open to the Northwestern Community: Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 East Superior Street, Chicago Campus). Zoom attendance is open to all. Registration required. ** PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK** REGISTER HERE Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements  

May
25
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

May
25
2023

2023 Undergraduate Research Expo Winner's Circle

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

Join the Office of Undergraduate Research as we feature the best presentations from the 2023 Virtual Research Expo, and the top performances from the Creative Arts Festival for an in-person exposition. This event showcases and celebrates the year’s best research projects – all are welcome to come learn from and support our winners! Winners will present their work in front of an audience of senior University Leadership such as President, Provost, Associate Provost, Deans, faculty, staff, and students. Refreshments will be available throughout the event.

May
25
2023

Sarah Yubin Chong, cello

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen  Liang-yu Wang, piano  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major  Sergei Prokofiev, Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119  Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
25
2023

Wheel Throwing III (Advanced)

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing III is for students who have completed multiple intermediate sessions, and are ready for more independence as an artist. Students will be working on several larger projects that aim at discussing concepts, meaning, and aesthetics. Students should expect to begin working on a portfolio that showcases their concepts clearly. This course aims to grow students' understanding of ceramics as art. Students will be involved in creating an environment for ceramic art practices to bloom. This course is for dedicated artists looking to expand their concepts. Students will begin a social media account where they will share their works in progress, making work videos, and final products. *Prerequisites: have taken an intermediate wheel throwing class Instructor: Ranch Ward

May
25
2023

Handel’s Alcina

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM, Evanston

Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, performances feature a 6:45 p.m. pre-performance talk by Dr. Alison C. DeSimone  Joachim Schamberger, director; Stephen Alltop, conductor; Dunbar Festival Orchestra  Alcina inhabits an enchanted island of her own making, where she holds the power to turn her lovers into animals, plants, and stones when she tires of a relationship. Sensing Alcina’s hidden desire for genuine love, Bradamante and Melisso set out to take her on a journey of healing and self-discovery; in the process, they hope to save the heroic Ruggiero from becoming yet another casualty in Alcina’s parade of transformed exes. But will Alcina’s own transformation come at a price? Handel’s tale of mistaken identities and amorous pursuits features some of his finest operatic music, from sublime melodies to spectacular vocal fireworks.   Performed in Italian with English supertitles. Run time: Approximately 2 hours. 

May
25
2023

Philharmonia

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Andrew Ritchie and Alexander Chen, graduate assistant conductors; Sean Lee, cello Johannes Brahms, Akademische Festouvertüre (Academic Festival Overture), Op. 80 Camille Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Op. 35

May
25
2023

Mark May, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Pamela Hinchman  Jason Carlson, piano  Jules Massenet, “Toi! Vous!” from Manon  Robert Schumann, Selections from Dichterliebe, Op. 48  Paolo Tosti, Song Cycle  Franz Lehár, “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” from Das Land Des Lächelns  Roger Quilter, Song Cycle  Giuseppe Verdi, “De’ miei bollenti spiriti” from La traviata  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
25
2023

Ryan Williamson, horn

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Umi Garrett, piano  Marcel Bitsch, Variations sur une chanson française  Robert Schumann (arr. Eric Ruske), Fantasiestücke, Op. 73  Reinhold Glière, Four Pieces for Horn and Piano, Op. 35  Richard Bissill, Song of a New World Tickets are not required for this event.

May
25
2023

Santiago Del Castillo Aréchiga, viola

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Helen Callus  Kaissy Yau, flute; Emily Stone, harp; Nathan Canfield, piano  Garth Knox, Fuga libre  Claude Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp  Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
26
2023

Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and Television

All day, Chicago

Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Northwestern Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts, and supported by the Northwestern University Office of the Provost's N. W. Harris Lecture Fund.   PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, MAY 26: 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and Keynote with Stephen Harper: “From Medicalization to Metamodernism: Reflections on Recent Popular Portrayals of Mental Distress" Stephen Harper is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Film, Media, and Communication at the University of Portsmouth. Author of Madness, Power, and the Media: Class, Gender, and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress and Insanity, Individuals and Society in Late-Medieval English Literature: The Subjects of Madness, and articles including "Media, Madness, and Misrepresentation: Critical Reflections on Anti-Stigma Discourse," "Understanding Mental Distress in Film and Media: a new agenda?”   3:00 p.m. | Coffee and Panel Discussion with Rebecca Seligman, Stephen Harper and Richard Reinhardt: "Madness and Melancholy in Twenty-First Century Visual Culture" In a global landscape that is reshaped daily by the coronavirus, climate change, refugee crises and economic polarization, mental illness, particularly depression and melancholia, is an escalating public health concern. As we grapple with immense change, it is increasingly difficult to differentiate between the clinical and the cultural in diagnosing, understanding, and representing the psychological effects of our historical present. In a moment when crisis is ordinary, how do filmmakers portray its psychological toll? How do artists capture the overwhelming nature of our global condition and its impact on the individual? What are the aesthetics of depression and melancholia in film and television in the last decade? How do we translate cultural trauma through representations of mental illness?     7:00 p.m. | Screening of Two Distant Strangers and Discussion with Emmy-Winning Director Travon Free: A reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres will follow a post-screening discussion of the short film with Travon Free, moderated by Harvey Young. Travon Free is a two-time Emmy Winning and Peabody winning actor, writer and comedian. Writing credits include The Daily Show, Samantha Bee, Black Monday, and Camping and many more. He is also writer/director of the Academy-award winning short, Two Distant Strangers. Travon’s writing can be found all over the web, as he is one of the most sought after young comedic voices on social, political and pop-culture issues. Harvey Young is Professor and Dean in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. Author of seven books, including Embodying Black Experience, winner of “Book of the Year” awards from the National Communication Association and the American Society for Theatre Research and, most recently, Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (coauthored with Mecca Zabriskie). Young’s research on the performance has been profiled in the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and the Chronicle of Higher Education. As a commentator on popular culture, he has appeared on CNN, 20/20, and Good Morning America as well as within the pages of Vanity Fair and People.  

May
26
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
26
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
26
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
26
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
26
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
26
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

May
26
2023

Wheel Throwing II (Intermediate) - Section B

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Wheel Throwing II is for students who have completed at least one wheel-throwing course in the past. In this course, Students will learn how to throw a large range of functional work and explore complex ways of decorating and glazing. From mugs and bowls to large vases, plates, and coffee pour-overs, this course is perfect for those who are looking to improve their throwing techniques and aesthetics. This course aims to improve the student's confidence in their abilities and to connect with the larger community within the studio. *Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class Instructor: Chantal Chuba

May
26
2023

Panel Discussion on Handel’s Alcina

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston

Baroque music specialist Dr. Alison C. DeSimone (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Director of Opera Joachim Schamberger, and Conducting and Ensembles senior lecturer Stephen Alltop, together with members of the Alcina cast, discuss Handel’s opera. Topics include Schamberger’s contemporary staging of the work, the importance of Alcina among Handel’s operatic compositions, and musical highlights of the production.  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
26
2023

Yui Ginther, horn

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Gwen Boros, Emmett Conway, Alessandra Liebman, Colin Akers, and Miranda Smith, horn; Kay Kim, piano  Lars-Erik Larsson, Concertino for Horn, Op. 45  Carl Nielsen, Canto serioso  Jan Koetsier, Variations for Horn and Piano, Op. 59  Paquito D’Rivera (arr. Marzo Rizo), Vals Venezolano and Contradanza for Horn and Piano  Pepe Gavilondo and Yasel Muñoz, Selections from Cuban Dances Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
26
2023

Handel’s Alcina

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM, Evanston

Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, performances feature a 6:45 p.m. pre-performance talk by Dr. Alison C. DeSimone  Joachim Schamberger, director; Stephen Alltop, conductor; Dunbar Festival Orchestra  Alcina inhabits an enchanted island of her own making, where she holds the power to turn her lovers into animals, plants, and stones when she tires of a relationship. Sensing Alcina’s hidden desire for genuine love, Bradamante and Melisso set out to take her on a journey of healing and self-discovery; in the process, they hope to save the heroic Ruggiero from becoming yet another casualty in Alcina’s parade of transformed exes. But will Alcina’s own transformation come at a price? Handel’s tale of mistaken identities and amorous pursuits features some of his finest operatic music, from sublime melodies to spectacular vocal fireworks.   Performed in Italian with English supertitles. Run time: Approximately 2 hours. 

May
26
2023

Stewart Goodyear, piano

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series Stewart Goodyear, piano Proclaimed "a phenomenon" by the Los Angeles Times and "one of the best pianists of his generation" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an accomplished concert pianist, improviser, and composer. His Rachmaninov recording received a Juno nomination for Best Classical Album for Soloist and Large Ensemble Accompaniment, and a recording of his own transcription of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best classical music recordings of 2015. Highlights of the 2021-22 season included his first performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, return engagements at the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC).  Stewart Goodyear, Acabris! Acabras! Acabram! Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges, Adagio in F minor Johann Sebastian Bach, French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 Ludwig van Beethoven, 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 2022-23 Skyline Piano Artist Series subscription renewals now available to current subscribers.  New subscriptions available August 19, 2022. Single tickets available September 16, 2022.

May
26
2023

Tristin Saito, viola

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Weijing Wang Michal  Nathanael Canfield, piano  J. S. Bach (trans. Simon Rowland-Jones), Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011  Rebecca Clarke, Sonata for Viola and Piano  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
26
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

May
27
2023

Media and Mental Health Symposium: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy and Trauma in Film and Television

All day, Chicago

Join us for this three-day symposium hosted by the Remaking Media and Mental Health Across Cultures Northwestern Buffett Global Catalyst Grant Group—which includes Rebecca Seligman, Peter Locke, Dave Tolchinsky and Kate Erskine—and the Northwestern Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts, and supported by the Northwestern University Office of the Provost's N. W. Harris Lecture Fund. PROGRAM FOR SATURDAY, MAY 27: 12:00 p.m. | Northwestern Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab Student Film Screenings  Pizza and soft drinks will be served. 1:30 p.m. | Industry Discussion with AJ Christian and Dave Tolchinksy 3:00 p.m. | Reading of "Sick" and Discussion with Screenwriter and Playwright Zayd Dohrn  

May
27
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
27
2023

Emily Stone, harp

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Marguerite Lynn Williams  Benjamin Britten, Suite for Harp, Op. 83  Caroline Lizotte, Suite Galactique, Op. 39  George Frideric Handel, Allegro moderato from Concerto in B-flat Major  A selection of orchestral and opera excerpts  Brandee Younger (arr. Brandee Younger and Alden Hellmuth), Essence of Ruby  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Kunjing Dai, viola

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Helen Callus  Nathanael Canfield, piano  Franz Schubert, Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821  Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 25, No. 4  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Noah Yi, clarinet

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Robert Chien and Daniel Seog, violin; Ashley Park, viola; Meredith Steele, cello; Kay Kim, piano  Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op. 73  Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
27
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
27
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
27
2023

Wonee Kim, piano

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  David Wolfe, baritone; Saeyeong Kim, flute  Samuel Barber, “Dover Beach,” Op. 3  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “I Bless You, Forests” from Seven Romances, Op. 47  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Podvig” (The Heroic Deed) from 12 Romances, Op. 60  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “On the Golden Cornfields” from Six Romances, Op. 57  Gabriel Fauré, L’horizon chimérique, Op. 118  Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 94  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Frank Wang, violin

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Johannes Brahms, Sonatensatz, Scherzo in C Minor from the F-A-E Sonata  Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47  Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100 (“Thun”)  Pablo de Sarasate, Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Hillary Simms, trombone

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Michael Mulcahy  William Fowler and Nick Mihalich, trombone; James Yu-Tien Chou, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano  Joseph Jongen, Aria et Polonaise, Op. 128  Richard Peaslee, Arrows of Time  Max Bruch, Romance for Viola, Op. 95  Barbara York, Nocturne  Various composers, Four Chinese Folk Songs  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Sylvia Wang, piano

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Desirée Ruhstrat, violin; Michael Boyd, piano  Sylvia Wang has presented solo and collaborative performances throughout the world and recorded for the Newport Classic, Boston Records, Northeastern, and CRI labels. She has been a winner and finalist in competitions including London’s Royal Overseas League Festival, an Avanti Award leading to a debut in London’s Purcell Room, the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, and the J. S. Bach International Piano Competition. Together with Bienen faculty violinist Desirée Ruhstrat and guest pianist Michael Boyd, she presents a program including Johannes Brahms’s Sonata in F Minor for Two Pianos, Op. 34b and Lowell Liebermann’s Four Etudes on Songs of Brahms, Op. 88.

May
27
2023

Abram Kennedy Collier, jazz saxophone

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Rob Dixon  Leo Parker (arr. Abram Collier), Rollin’ with Leo  Cole Porter (arr. Abram Collier), “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To”  Hoagy Carmichael (arr. Abram Collier), “Georgia on My Mind”  Thad Jones (arr. Abram Collier), Three and One  Jack Palmer and Spencer Williams (arr. Abram Collier), “I’ve Found a New Baby”  Abram Collier, As the Cardinal Flies  Hitomi Sato (arr. Carlos Eine), Route 209  Abram Collier, In Love Again  Bart Howard (arr. Abram Collier), “Fly Me to the Moon” Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Andrea Liu, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Matthew Yao, clarinet; Lyudmila Lakisova, piano  Astor Piazzolla, Invierno Porteño from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35  Aram Khachaturian, Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano Tickets are not required for this event. 

May
27
2023

Shu-Tien Lin, guitar

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Anne Waller  Nathan Vilhena Kock, clarinet  Štěpán Rak, Temptation of the Renaissance  Richard Boukas, Coco Poco Loco  J. S. Bach (arr. Oscar Ghiglia), Suite in E Major, BWV 1006a  Mauro Giuliani, Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119  Chao-Hsuan Lu, Summer Festival  Chao-Hsuan Lu, Hometown  Chao-Hsuan Lu, Willow  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Handel’s Alcina

7:30 PM - 10:30 PM, Evanston

Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, performances feature a 6:45 p.m. pre-performance talk by Dr. Alison C. DeSimone  Joachim Schamberger, director; Stephen Alltop, conductor; Dunbar Festival Orchestra  Alcina inhabits an enchanted island of her own making, where she holds the power to turn her lovers into animals, plants, and stones when she tires of a relationship. Sensing Alcina’s hidden desire for genuine love, Bradamante and Melisso set out to take her on a journey of healing and self-discovery; in the process, they hope to save the heroic Ruggiero from becoming yet another casualty in Alcina’s parade of transformed exes. But will Alcina’s own transformation come at a price? Handel’s tale of mistaken identities and amorous pursuits features some of his finest operatic music, from sublime melodies to spectacular vocal fireworks.   Performed in Italian with English supertitles. Run time: Approximately 2 hours. 

May
27
2023

Chris Jung, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of James Giles  Johann Strauss II (trans. Adolf Schulz-Evler), Arabesques on The Blue Danube  Robert Schumann, Arabesque in C Major, Op. 18  Robert Schumann, Toccata in C Major, Op. 7  Charles-Valentin Alkan, Etude No. 12 (“Le festin d’Ésope”), Op. 39  Nikolai Kapustin, Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62  Nikolai Kapustin, Prelude No. 23, Op. 53: Moderato  Johann Strauss II (trans. Leopold Godowsky), Symphonic Metamorphosis on Die Fledermaus  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
27
2023

Karen Mendes, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Nathan Canfield, piano  George Frideric Handel, Violin Sonata in E Major, HWV 373  César Franck, Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major  Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
28
2023

Ben Poirot, tuba

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gene Pokorny and Matthew Gaunt  Sarah Jessen and Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Rachel Côté, horn; Alex Ertl, trombone  Arild Plau, Concerto for Tuba and Strings  J. S. Bach, Courante and Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007  Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Verne Reynolds), String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Cathy Xi Chen, violin

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Franz Schubert, Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35  Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
28
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
28
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
28
2023

Amy Bao, piano

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Sylvia Wang  Claude Debussy, Bruyères from Préludes, Livre 2, L. 123  Joseph Haydn, Andante with Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6  Maurice Ravel, Sonatine, M. 40  Franz Liszt, Tre sonetti di Petrarca from Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie, S. 161  Nikolai Medtner, Sonata tragica from Forgotten Melodies II, Op. 39  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Mari De Napoli, violin

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Nathan Canfield, piano  Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47  Ernest Chausson, Poème, Op. 25  Gabriel Fauré, Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Handel’s Alcina

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston

Thursday and Friday, May 25 and 26, performances feature a 6:45 p.m. pre-performance talk by Dr. Alison C. DeSimone  Joachim Schamberger, director; Stephen Alltop, conductor; Dunbar Festival Orchestra  Alcina inhabits an enchanted island of her own making, where she holds the power to turn her lovers into animals, plants, and stones when she tires of a relationship. Sensing Alcina’s hidden desire for genuine love, Bradamante and Melisso set out to take her on a journey of healing and self-discovery; in the process, they hope to save the heroic Ruggiero from becoming yet another casualty in Alcina’s parade of transformed exes. But will Alcina’s own transformation come at a price? Handel’s tale of mistaken identities and amorous pursuits features some of his finest operatic music, from sublime melodies to spectacular vocal fireworks.   Performed in Italian with English supertitles. Run time: Approximately 2 hours. 

May
28
2023

Kirsten Lee, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Kay Kim and Ted Deddens, piano; Seth Lauver, marimba  Maurice Ravel, Tzigane   Jessie Montgomery, Rhapsody No. 1   Amy Beach, Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 34  Manuel Ponce (arr. Jascha Heifetz), Estrellita  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Stephanie Ma, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Nathan Canfield, piano  Augusta Read Thomas, Incantation  W. A. Mozart, Violin Sonata in G Major, K. 301  Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto, Op. 14  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Nathan Vilhena Kock, clarinet

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Calvin Liu and Doyun Kook, violin; Alexis Chae, viola; Surin Cho, cello; Shu-Tien Lin, guitar; Kay Kim, piano  Richard Boukas, Suite da Cantos Do Nordeste   Louis Cahuzac, Arlequin  Richard Boukas, A Dozen Choro Tributes  Eugène Bozza, Bucolique for clarinet and piano  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Griffin Rupp, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, R. Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, and Randall Hawes  Will Fowler and Chris Lee, trombone; Reid Harman, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano  Henri Tomasi, Concerto pour trombone et orchestre  Sergei Rachmaninoff (arr. Victor Venglovsky), Elégie, Op. 3, No. 1 Jacques Charpentier, Quatuor de forme liturgique  Eugène Bozza, Ballade pour trombone ténor et piano, Op. 62  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
28
2023

Jakyoung Olivia Huh, cello

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen  Liang-yu Wang, piano   J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33  César Franck, Cello Sonata in A Major, FWV 8  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
29
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
29
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

May
30
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
30
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
30
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
30
2023

APIDA Community Social

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Evanston

Join Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) as we conclude the celebration of the APIDA Heritage Month. Drop by between 11am-1pm to pick up treats from local APIDA businesses and join us for a community conversation from 1-2pm. This will be an informal session where we will discuss what it means to be part of the APIDA community member at NU. There will be opportunity for people to share with us what event(s) they attended from the heritage month programming, what they liked/disliked about the event(s), and what they learned about the APIDA community from these events. This program is part of the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month celebration organized by the Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) at Northwestern University.

May
30
2023

Fulbright Study/Research Application Workshop

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Online

Interested in pursuing study abroad? attend a Zoom meeting to learn about the Fulbroght application process at Northwestern. We will discuss application components and successful application strategies. You do not need a draft of your essays, but will benefit most if you have a clear vision of your project.

May
30
2023

2023 State of SGM Health Symposium: Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Off-Campus

ISGMH’s State of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Health Symposium convenes researchers, policy makers, community-based organizations, LGBTQ youth, and community members to discuss the health disparities and resiliency of LGBTQ people. The symposium presents an opportunity to spark interdisciplinary conversations on best practices and policies for supporting the health of LGBTQ communities. Following formal presentations and panels on the research and current work in LGBTQ health, attendees are invited to a reception providing the opportunity to connect across disciplines and organizations. Join us on May 30 in Washington, DC, for our next symposium held in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year's symposium will center on the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals working and pursuing education in STEM fields. Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 1:00 - 5:00pm ET Location: American Association for the Advancement of Science 1200 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC 20005 This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required as space is limited.

May
30
2023

Aalia Hanif, flute and piccolo

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of John Thorne, Jennifer Gunn, and Alyce Johnson  Kay Kim, piano  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Guy Braunstein), “Lensky’s Aria” from Eugene Onegin  Frank Martin, Ballade for flute and piano  Amanda Harberg, Sonata for piccolo and piano  C. P. E. Bach, Flute Sonata in A Minor, H. 562  Charles-Marie Widor, Suite for flute and piano, Op. 34  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
30
2023

Brian Zhan, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gerardo Ribeiro  Liangyu Wang, piano  Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78  Edward Elgar, Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
30
2023

John Dawson, percussion

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Cameron Marquez, percussion  James Wood, Rogosanti  Franco Donatoni, Mvmt. II from Omar  Thomas Kotcheff, 5ERVO  Mark Applebaum, Aphasia  John Serry, Rhapsody for Marimba, “Night Rhapsody”  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
30
2023

Bradyn Debysingh, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Alexander Chen, conductor; Calvin Liu, violin; Stephen Joven-Lee, piano  Henry Purcell, “Thus, the gloomy world” from The Fairy-Queen, Z. 629  Henry Purcell, “Let us dance, let us sing” from Dioclesian, Z. 627  Henry Purcell, “One charming night” from The Fairy-Queen, Z. 629  John Christopher Smith, “Man so favour’d, Man so blest” from Paradise Lost  Igor Stravinsky, “Love, too frequently betrayed” from The Rake’s Progress  J. S. Bach, Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55  Benjamin Britten, Canticle I  Gabriel Fauré, Le jardin clos, Op. 106  Moses Hogan, “Give Me Jesus”  Irving Berlin, “Cheek to Cheek” from Top Hat  George M. Cohan, “Give My Regards to Broadway” from Little Johnny Jones  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
30
2023

Kevin Kim, oboe

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Robert Morgan  Kay Kim, piano  Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia No. 6 in D Minor, TWV 40:7  Robert Schumann (trans. Robert Lucarelli), Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70  Eugène Bozza, Fantaisie pastorale, Op. 37  František Kramář-Krommer, Oboe Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 52   Tickets are not required for this event.

May
31
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

May
31
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

May
31
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

May
31
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

May
31
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

May
31
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

May
31
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

May
31
2023

VentureCat 2023: Northwestern's Annual Student Startup Competition

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

VentureCat is Northwestern’s annual student startup competition and celebrates the University’s most promising student founders. The program culminates in a pitch competition in which more than $325,000 in non-dilutive prize money is distributed to student ventures. The program and non-dilutive prize money awarded to student ventures is made possible by generous sponsorship from the Levy Institute, Lanny and Sharon Martin and Exelon. Join us on Wednesday, May 31 at 6 PM CT for the Public Showcase where we will feature the six finalist teams and their pitches. You will vote to award our audience favorite prize and we will announce our finals prize winners–including the grand prize of $150,000. Our 25 semifinalist teams span five tracks - Business Products & Services; Consumer Products & Services; Energy & Sustainability; Life Sciences & Medical Innovation; and Social Impact. This event is free and open to the public to attend. We're excited to offer a hybrid event, with an in-person showcase on Northwestern's Evanston campus and a livestream. 

May
31
2023

Veronika Izmaylova, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. 845  Alexander Scriabin, Fantasie in B Minor, Op. 28  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
31
2023

Yetong Tang, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of James Giles  Aaron Copland, Piano Variations  Ludwig van Beethoven, 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major (“Eroica Variations”), Op. 35  Federico Mompou, Trois Variations, for piano  Chen Yi, Variations on “Awariguli”  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 6 Variations on “Mein junges Leben hat ein End” (My Young Life Has an End), SwWV 324  Charles-Valentin Alkan, Le festin d’Ésope (Aesop’s Feast), Op. 39, No. 12  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
31
2023

Blake Parker, percussion

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Fiona Shonik, trumpet  J. S. Bach, Prelude from Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011  Karlheinz Stockhausen, Vibra-Elufa  Derek Jacoby, selections from Sketches  Yasuo Sueyoshi, Mirage pour marimba  Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds B  Tickets are not required for this event.

May
31
2023

Joey (Xiaoying) Zhuang, flute and piccolo

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of John Thorne, Jennifer Gunn, and Alyce Johnson  Kay Kim, piano Gabriel Fauré, Morceau de concours  Zhou Tian, Duet for Flute and Piano  Amanda Harberg, Court Dances: Suite for Flute and Piano  Harry Somers, Etching: The Vollard Suite  Olivier Messiaen, Le merle noir  Donato Lovreglio, Eco di Napoli 

May
31
2023

Sophie Denhard, double bass

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Andrew Raciti  Nathanael Canfield, piano  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008  Mason Bynes, The [WRECK]oning  Andrés Martín, Anna’s Promise: Suite for Double Bass and Piano Tickets are not required for this event. 

Jun
1
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

Jun
1
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
1
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
1
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
1
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
1
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
1
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

Jun
1
2023

Lucy Jung, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Eliana Silverman, violin; Waverly Long, viola; Kailie Holliday, cello; Nathan Canfield, piano  Johannes Brahms, Scherzo from Sonatensatz in C Minor  Samuel Barber, Concerto for Violin, Op. 14  Caroline Shaw, Blueprint  Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13            I. Adagio—Allegro vivace  Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A Minor, Op. 28 

Jun
1
2023

William Tanski IV, tenor

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Morgan Small, soprano; Daniel Uglunts and Luke Mott, baritone; Karina Kontorovitch, piano  Agustín Lara, “Granada”  Reynaldo Hahn, “Si mes vers avaient des ailes”  Samuel Barber, “Un cygne” from Mélodies passagères  Reynaldo Hahn, “Le printemps” from Douze rondels  Robert Schumann, “Erstes Grün” from Zwölf Gedichte von Justinus Kerner, Op. 35  Robert Schumann, “Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne” from Dichterliebe, Op. 48  Richard Strauss, “Das Rosenband” from 4 Lieder, Op. 36  Robert Schumann, “Die Lotosblume” from Myrthen, Op. 25  Gaetano Donizetti, Act II Finale from Don Pasquale  Leonard Bernstein, “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story  Jerry Bock, “Ilona” from She Loves Me  John Musto, Two by Frost  Hamilton Kennedy, “How Can You Buy Killarney?”  Chauncey Olcott, “My Wild Irish Rose”  Traditional, lyrics by Frederic Weatherly, “Danny Boy”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
1
2023

Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Robert G. Hasty, conductor A program celebrating French works. Jacques Ibert, Hommage à Mozart Gabriel Fauré, Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112 Darius Milhaud, Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58 Albert Roussel, Le festin de l’araignée (The Spider’s Feast), Op. 17: Symphonic Fragments Claude Debussy, Petite suite

Jun
1
2023

Ryan Lavelle Dearon, bass-baritone

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Traditional spiritual (arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw), “My God Is a Rock”  Johannes Brahms, Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121  Shawn Okpebholo, “The Rain” from Two Black Churches  J. S. Bach, “Ich habe genug, ich habe den Heiland” from Ich habe genug, BWV 82  Jacques Ibert, Chansons de Don Quichotte  Traditional spiritual (arr. Margaret Bonds), “I Got a Home in That Rock”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
1
2023

Dustin Nguyen, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy  Yoko Yamada, piano  Launy Grøndahl, Trombone Concerto  Franz Strauss, Nocturno, Op. 7  Sigismond Stojowski, Fantaisie, Op. 38  Henri Dutilleux, Choral, Cadence et Fugato  Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
1
2023

Vincent Ip, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of James Giles  Claude Debussy, Estampes, L. 100  Richard Danielpour, “Lean Kat Stride” from The Enchanted Garden, Preludes Book II  Felix Mendelssohn, Fantasy in F-sharp Minor, Op. 28  Robert Schumann, Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
2
2023

Rethinking Chicago's Historic Monuments

All day, Evanston

History is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory. In “How the Word is Passed”, Clint Smith encourages us to be critical of the stories that inundate our lives. The storymap explains some of the narratives embedded in these monuments to encourage visitors to take a more active, thoughtful engagement in the monuments.’ meanings, both obvious and hidden. View online

Jun
2
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
2
2023

Fulbright Study/Research Application Workshop

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston

Interested in pursuing study abroad? attend a Zoom meetin to learn about the Fulbroght application process at Northwestern. We will discuss application components and successful application strategies. You do not need a draft of your essays, but will benefit most if you have a clear vision of your project.

Jun
2
2023

Havey Institute for Global Health - June IGH Seminar

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Please join the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health for our IGH Seminar Series! This webinar will be available through Zoom, and registration is required in order to receive information to join. All that register will receive a link that is unique to them.   More details on this talk coming soon!

Jun
2
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
2
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
2
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
2
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Jun
2
2023

Ashrey Shah, clarinet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Nathanael Canfield, piano  Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule  Takashi Yoshimatsu, 4 Pieces in Bird Shape  Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120  Jean Françaix, Tema con variazioni  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
2
2023

Hana Yoon, flute

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of John Thorne  Jesse Lear, bass; Kay Kim and Spencer Brown, piano; Nick Landon, drums Eugène Bozza, Image for Solo Flute, Op. 38  Ken Benshoof, Spindrift  Pierre Sancan, Sonatine for flute and piano  Giulio Briccialdi, Il Carnevale di Venezia, Op. 78  Ian Clarke, Zoom Tube  Mike Mower, Opus di Jazz  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
2
2023

Symphonic Band

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Shawn Vondran, conductor The Symphonic Band’s final concert of the academic year is, in part, a study in light and dark. The performance opens with a true surround sound experience in Ron Nelson’s antiphonal work Resonances I. Continuing the program is Frank Ticheli’s Lux Perpetua, examining “the idea of light as both protector and illuminator.” This work is juxtaposed with From a Dark Millennium, composed by Northwestern alumnus Joseph Schwantner. The second half of the program begins with a short fanfare, Don’t Be Evil, commenting on a different kind of darkness in the form of Big Tech. Concluding the program is a work Robert Traugh, Spark and Fire—a collection of four essays for wind ensemble revolving around the issue of anxiety in 21st –century society.  Ron Nelson, Resonances I  Frank Ticheli, Lux Perpetua  Joseph Schwantner, From a Dark Millennium  Ryan Lindveit, Don’t Be Evil (Fanfare for Band)  Robert Traugh, Spark and Fire: Four Essays for Wind Ensemble 

Jun
2
2023

Sean Dougherty, viola

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Weijing Michal  Wenting Shi, piano J. S. Bach (trans. Simon Rowland-Jones), Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009  Johannes Brahms, Viola Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120  Ralph Vaughan Williams, Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
2
2023

V. Matthew Steinbaum, baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Kurt R. Hansen  Karina Kontorovitch, piano  Gerald Finzi, Let Us Garlands Bring  Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
2
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

Jun
3
2023

Jiwon Chun, piano

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78  Enrique Granados, Goyescas No. 1, Op. 11  Frédéric Chopin, Preludes, Op. 28  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Stewart Bridgeforth, bass trombone

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, R. Douglas Wright, and Timothy Higgins  Yoko Yamada, piano   Ernst Sachse, Trombone Concertino  Donald H. White, Tetra Ergon  J. S. Bach, “Großer Herr, o starker König” from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248  Raymond Premru, Prelude and Dance  David R. Gillingham, Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
3
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
3
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
3
2023

Claire McLean, percussion

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Alex Chao, Daniel Kinney, Seth Lauver, and Dell Mitchell, marimba; Blake Parker, drums  Paul Hindemith (trans. Claire McLean), Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25, No. 3  Polo Vallejo, Tactus  Arnold Marinissen, Totem I and II  William Kraft, Soliloquy  Bob Becker, Girlfriends Medley  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Kimmi Hebdon, horn

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen  Kay Kim, piano  Alan Abbott, Alla caccia, for horn in F and piano  Franz Ignaz Danzi, Sonata for Horn and Piano, Op. 28  Sergei Prokofiev, Selections from 5 Mélodies, Op. 35  Bruce Broughton, Sonata for Horn and Piano  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Troy Archer, trumpet

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of David Bilger  Fiona Shonik, trumpet; Emmett Conway, horn; Griffin Rupp, trombone; Noah Vincent, tuba; Yoko Yamada, piano  Stanley Friedman, Introduction from Solus  Oskar Böhme, Liebeslied, Op. 22, No. 2  Reinhold Glière, Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, for trumpet and piano  Jean-Baptiste Arban, Fantaisie brillante  Victor Ewald, Brass Quintet No. 3, Op. 7  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Ashlee Allaire, percussion

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of She-e Wu  Alejandro Viñao, Burritt Variations  Jesús Torres, Proteus  Philippe Manoury, IV. Vibraphone Solo from Le livre des claviers  Peter Klatzow, Mvmt. II from Dances of Earth and Fire  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Kristina Zlatareva, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Blair Milton  Meredith Steele, cello; Nathan Canfield, piano  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30  Max Bruch, Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major, Op. 46  George Frideric Handel (arr. Johan Halvorsen), Passacaglia for Violin and Cello  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Quincy Erickson, trumpet

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of David Bilger  Michail Thompson and Sarah Jessen, trumpet; Michael Stevens, horn; Cole Davis, trombone; Alec Mawrence, tuba; Yoko Yamada, piano  John Baston (arr. Quincy Erickson), Recorder Concerto No. 2  George Gershwin (arr. Timofey Dokshizer), Rhapsody in Blue  Richard Peaslee, Nightsongs  Frédéric Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op. 66  Claudio Monteverdi (arr. Caleb Hudson), Damigella tutta bella  Oskar Böhme, Brass Sextet in E-flat Minor, Op. 30  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
3
2023

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Donald Schleicher, conductor; Yuxin Dai, graduate assistant conductor George Gershwin, Cuban Overture Leonard Bernstein, On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

Jun
3
2023

Benjamin Breitman, baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Kurt R. Hansen  Olga Sklyanskaya, piano  Gerald Finzi, Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18  Richard Strauss, “Allerseelen,” Op. 10, No. 8  Richard Strauss, “Morgen!,” Op. 27, No. 4  Richard Strauss, “Die Nacht,” Op. 10, No. 3  Richard Strauss, “Zueignung,” Op. 10, No. 1  Gaetano Donizetti, “Come Paride vezzoso” from L’elisir d’amore  Gaetano Donizetti, “Bella siccome un angelo” from Don Pasquale  Gabriel Fauré, “Lydia,” Op. 4, No. 2  Henri Duparc, “Extase”  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
4
2023

Jiarui Yu, piano

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of James Giles  Florence Price, Clouds  Claude Debussy, Selections from Études, L. 136  He Zhanhao and Chen Gang (何占豪 & 陈刚), arr. Chen Gang and Shi Wen (陈刚 & 施雯), The Butterfly Lovers (梁祝)  Tickets are not required for this event.  

Jun
4
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
4
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
4
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
4
2023

Matthew Yao, clarinet

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy  Hana Yoon, flute; Emmeline Murphy, oboe and English horn; Lily Kern, horn; Brian Vogel, bassoon; Yoko Yamada, piano  Willson Osborne, Rhapsody for Clarinet  Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120  Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op. 43  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
4
2023

Sarah Jessen, trumpet

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of David Bilger  Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Rachel Côté, horn; Alex Ertl, trombone; Ben Poirot, tuba; Kay Kim, piano  Claude Debussy (arr. Empire Brass), Prélude from Suite bergamasque  Charles Reskin, Trumpet Sonata  Giacomo Puccini, Storiella d’amore  Percy Grainger, Daffyd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock)  Percy Grainger, Died for Love  Percy Grainger, The Sprig of Thyme  Percy Grainger, Early One Morning  George Enescu, Légende  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
4
2023

Alexis Chae, viola

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Weijing Wang Michal  Nathan Kock, clarinet; Calvin Liu and Doyun Kook, violin; Surin Cho, cello; Kay Kim, piano  J. S. Bach (trans. Simon Rowland-Jones), Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010  Henri Vieuxtemps, Viola Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 36  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10     I. Allegro energico    IV. Finale. Allegro agitato  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
4
2023

Trombone Choir

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston

Reed Capshaw, director A colorful array of music written and arranged for trombones.

Jun
4
2023

Ethan Adams, trumpet

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of David Bilger  Yoko Yamada and Daniel Szefer, piano; Alex Chao, percussion   Arthur Honegger, Intrada  Sergei Rachmaninoff (trans. Ethan Adams), Selections from Six Romances, Op. 4  Vassily Brandt, Concertpiece No. 2  Vladimir Peskin, Concert Allegro  Nicholas Townsend, Concerto No. 1  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
4
2023

Keliang Li, bassoon

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of David McGill  Shichao Zhang, piano  Eugène Bozza, Fantaisie for Bassoon and Piano  Ludwig Milde, Polonaise for Bassoon and Piano  Roger Boutry, Interferences for bassoon and piano  Robert Schumann, Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
5
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
5
2023

Third Coast CFAR’s NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Seminar with Galter Health Sciences Library

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

The NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy that took effect on January 25, 2023, applies to all NIH-funded research that generates scientific data, regardless of funding mechanism. Compliance with this policy requires submission of a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP) with the funding application, outlining the plan for managing, preserving, and sharing project data. In this online seminar offered by the Third Coast CFAR’s BSIS Core, Sara Gonzales, MS, MLIS, from the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University, will present information on the NIH policy and provide recommendations for creating a compliant DMSP.

Jun
5
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Jun
5
2023

American Sign Language I (Beginner)

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Online

This course introduces the basics of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) is quickly becoming one of the most widely used languages in the United States. This class will explore basic sign vocabulary and basic grammatical structures such as English to ASL and ASL to English. This class will cover basic Sign Language and a basic introduction to the world of Deaf Cultures.

Jun
5
2023

Calvin Qiuyuan Liu, violin

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Nathanael Canfield, piano  Francesco Geminiani, Sonata No. 12 in D Minor, Op. 1  Leoš Janáček, Violin Sonata, JW VII/7  Robert Schumann, Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105  Clara Schumann, Three Romances, Op. 22  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
5
2023

Su Rin Cho, cello

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen  Liang-yu Wang, piano  Dmitri Shostakovich, Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40  Johannes Brahms, Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
5
2023

Doyun Kook, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Blair Milton  Minsoo Kang, piano  Ernest Chausson, Poème, Op. 25  Han-Ki Kim, Violin Sonata No. 3, “Korean Beauty,” Op. 289  Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
5
2023

Eva Lynn Nicholson, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Nathan Canfield, piano  Antonín Dvořák, Romance in F Minor, Op. 11  Augusta Read Thomas, Incantation  Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
5
2023

Oliver Chen, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110  Alexander Scriabin, Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 23  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
6
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
6
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
6
2023

Lauryn Nelson, mezzo-soprano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Theresa Brancaccio  Charles Foster, piano  Florence Price, “Monologue for the Working Class”  Florence Price, Four Songs from The Weary Blues  Florence Price, “Judgement Day”  Princess Magogo (trans. Mzilikazi Khumalo; arr. Peter Klatzow), Songs of Princess Magogo  Adrian Dunn, “The Whole World”  Adrian Dunn, “Jericho”  Adrian Dunn (trans. Jordan Jenkins), “Ride On (Jesus of Justice)”  Adrian Dunn, “Only You” from Jackie Robinson  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
6
2023

Reid Harman, bass trombone

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, R. Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, and Christopher Davis  Yoko Yamada, piano  Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 167  Johannes Brahms, Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121  Daniela Candillari, Extremely Close  J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007  Alexey Lebedev, Concert Allegro  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
6
2023

Kylie Thalman, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Valerie Mun, violin; Tristin Saito, viola; Luke Wejman, cello  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade in C Minor, Op. 73  William Walton, Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61  Edvard Grieg, String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
6
2023

Yi Ding, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of James Giles  Claude Debussy, Images, Book II  Chen Qigang, Instants d’un opéra de Pékin  Franz Schubert, Sonata in A Minor, D. 845  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
7
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
7
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
7
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
7
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
7
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
7
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

Jun
7
2023

Lavender Graduation

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) that celebrates the achievements of graduating students in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) community from Northwestern University. All students who register and participate will receive a free stole. Visit bit.ly/EOY-MSA to learn more and RSVP. Interested students must register before April 27, 2023. Lavender Graduation will be an in-person event on Wednesday, June 7th at 5:30 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus. 

Jun
7
2023

Chenxing Huang, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of James Giles  Isaac Albéniz, Iberia, Book I  Franz Liszt, Variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen,” S. 180  Robert Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6  Zhang Zhao, Pi Huang—Moments in Beijing Opera  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
7
2023

Antonio Ruiz-Nokes, baritone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Patrice Michaels  Luke Mott, bass-baritone  John Musto, “Litany” from Shadow of the Blues  Adolphus Hailstork, “Difficulties”  William Grant Still, “Grief”  Maurice Ravel, Don Quixotte à Dulcinée  Stephen Sondheim, “Pretty Women” from Sweeney Todd  Stephen Schwartz, “All for the Best” from Godspell  Astor Piazzolla, “Los pájaros perdidos”  Violeta Parra, “Gracias à la Vida”  Rafael Hernandez, “Preciosa”  Craig Hella Johnson, “We Are All Sons” from Considering Matthew Shepard  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
7
2023

Kurt Eide, trombone

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, Timothy Higgins, and R. Douglas Wright  Yoko Yamada, piano  Nino Rota, Concerto per trombone e orchestra  Paul Hindemith, Trauermusik  Leonard Bernstein, “Simple Song” from MASS  Nicola Ferro, Notes of Love  Barbara York, A Caged Bird  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
8
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
8
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
8
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
8
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
8
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
8
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

Jun
8
2023

Latinx Congratulatory

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston

The Latinx Congratulatory is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Northwestern's Latinx graduates. All students who participate will receive a free stole. All students who register and participate will receive a free stole. Visit bit.ly/EOY-MSA to learn more and RSVP. Interested students must register before April 27, 2023. The Latinx Congratulatory ceremony will be an in-person event on Thursday, June 8th at 5:30 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium the Evanston Campus. 

Jun
8
2023

David Garcia Suarez, tenor

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of W. Stephen Smith  Chungho Lee and Luca Moretti, piano  Tim Allhoff, Agnus Dei I  Leslie Adams, Daybirth  Gerald Finzi, “Childhood Among the Ferns” from Before and After Summer, Op. 16  Ricky Ian Gordon, “My People” from Genius Child  Gene Scheer, “Holding Each Other” from Voices from World War II  Gabriel Fauré, “Prison” from Deux mélodies, Op. 83  Robert Schumann, “In der Fremde” from Liederkreis, Op. 39  Ben Moore, “Darkling I listen” from Ode to a Nightingale  David Yazbek, “Haled’s Song About Love” from The Band’s Visit  Stephen Sondheim, “Being Alive” from Company  Pedro Infante, “Cien Años”  Giacomo Puccini, “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca  Armando Manzanero (arr. Angel Rodriguez), “Qué tristeza”  Adam Guettel, “How Glory Goes” from Floyd Collins  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
8
2023

Rachel Côté, horn

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of Gail Williams  Sarah Jessen and Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Alex Ertl, trombone; Ben Poirot, tuba; Kay Kim, piano  Francis Poulenc, Élégie  Verne Reynolds, Partita  Sofia Gubaidulina, Zwei Stücke für Horn und Klavier  Felix Mendelssohn (arr. Verne Reynolds), String Quartet No. 1, Op. 12  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
8
2023

William Lord, piano

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston

Master of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  W. A. Mozart, Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576  Franz Liszt, Totentanz, S. 525  Robert Schumann, Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133  Adolf Schulz-Evler, Arabesken über “An der schönen blauen Donau” von Johann Strauss  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
8
2023

Aaron Short, tenor

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Doctor of Musical Arts  Student of Pamela Hinchman  Jason Carlson, piano  Henri Duparc, 3 Duparc Songs  Richard Strauss, 5 Strauss Songs  Traditional folk melodies (arr. Celius Dougherty and Steven Mark Kohn), 3 Traditional American Folk Songs   Reveriano Soutullo and Juan Vert, “Bella enamorada” from El último romántico  Jacinto Guerrero, “Flor roja” from Los gavilanes  Pablo Sorozábal, “No puede ser” from La tabernera del puerto 

Jun
8
2023

Duane Chen, piano

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of José Ramón Méndez  Enrique Granados, Goyescas, Op. 11  Alexander Scriabin, Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19  Johannes Brahms, 6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118  Franz Liszt, Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
8
2023

Valerie Mun, violin

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston

Bachelor of Music  Student of Desirée Ruhstrat  Nathan Canfield, piano; James Toomey-Wilson, guitar  Claude Debussy, Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor, L. 140  Astor Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango for violin and guitar  Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19  Maurice Ravel, Tzigane  Tickets are not required for this event.

Jun
9
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
9
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
9
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
9
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
9
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Jun
9
2023

The JOY: NU's Black Congratulatory

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston

The Journey of Our Years, or the JOY, is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Northwestern's Black graduates.   All students who participate will receive a free stole. Visit bit.ly/EOY-MSA to learn more and RSVP. Interested students must register before April 27, 2023. The JOY ceremony will be an in-person event on Friday, June 9th at 3:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus. 

Jun
9
2023

APIDA Senior Send-Off

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The APIDA Senior Send-Off is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs to recognize and celebrate Northwestern's graduates of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi descent. All students who participate will receive a free stole. Visit bit.ly/EOY-MSA to learn more and RSVP. Interested students must register before April 27, 2023. The APIDA Senior Send-Off will be an in-person event on Friday, June 9th at 7:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus.  

Jun
9
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

Jun
10
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
10
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
10
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
11
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
11
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
11
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
12
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
12
2023

Well-being Break: Vinyasa Flow Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for a full 30 minutes of Vinyasa Flow Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Jun
13
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
13
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
14
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
14
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
14
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
14
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
14
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
14
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Stretch

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of mindful stretching exercises that promote flexibility, relaxation & range of motion. All you need is a mat/towel & a small space to go through the exercises

Jun
15
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Chelsea for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
15
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
15
2023

SAVE THE DATE: ISGMH 2023 Pride Panel

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Chicago

ISGMH invites you to join us for this year’s virtual Pride Panel. Each year, we revisit the topic, “What Does Pride Mean to Us?” highlighting different groups of voices within the LGBTQ community. We are thrilled to invite Ramona Beltran, Ph.D., who will speak with a panel of indigenous SGM speaers on our topic this year.  This event is co-sponsored by the ISGMH Equity Committee.  Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023 Time: 12:00pm Central Time   This panel event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. A registration form will be available soon. 

Jun
15
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
15
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
15
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
15
2023

Well-being Break: Zumba

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Symphony for 30 minutes of energizing ZUMBA. In Zumba we take the "work" out of workout, by mixing low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style.

Jun
16
2023

Well-being Break: Stretch

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for 15 minutes of stretch exercises. All you need is a mat or towel and a small space to go through the exercises.

Jun
16
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
16
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
16
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
16
2023

Well-being Break: Mindful Yoga

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Online

Well-being breaks are intended to help support day-to-day well-being of faculty and staff by providing opportunities to engage in brief, facilitated well-being activities throughout the workday. Breaks are provided in 15 and 30-minute virtual sessions in partnership with Northwestern Recreation. Please join Katherine for a full 30 minutes of Mindful Yoga. All you will need is a mat/blanket, and some space to move around.

Jun
16
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

Jun
17
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
17
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
17
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
18
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
18
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
18
2023

What am I to do with a weak mirror? 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

Layan Attari, José De Sancristóbal, Cory Perry, Eshan Rafi, Katie Revilla, Isaac Vazquez — 2023 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. The 2023 thesis exhibition is accompanied by programming and a publication. ArtistsLayan Attari (b. 1990, Kuwait) is an artist whose practice is concerned with the permeable landscapes of the natural and the unnatural. She is interested in locating the origins and implications of different conceptions of nature and how they manifest within urban spaces, primarily in the Middle East. Currently based out of Chicago and Sharjah, her practice spans various media including photography, sound, and moving image. Attari’s work has been featured in several group exhibitions including Branding Conflict at Space 204 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2022); Total Landscaping at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (2021); Forming Outlines at Fikra Studios, Sharjah (2020); Plant, Animal, Mineral at Art Dubai, Dubai (2021). She has participated in the Campus Art Dubai 8.0 residency program (2020), Fikra Designer-in-Residence (2020), and is a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artist Fellowship, in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (2018-2019). She received her BSc in Multimedia Design from the American University of Sharjah in 2011. Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) is an artist whose work seeks new ways of discernment, and the disruption of perceptions formed out of histories, and archives. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, his practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records. Isaac received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018, he attended the Berlin Now! Studio Residency, and has also been a recipient of the Christine Millon Memorial and Smith Grants from SAIC, and the Paschke Grant from Northwestern University. Isaac has curated and exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery and Sullivan Galleries. Currently, Isaac is collaborating with José De Sancristobal in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is an artist working in performance, photo-based installation and video. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed and screened internationally including at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto; Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah; M:ST 9 Performance Art Biennale, Calgary and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin. Rafi's artistic practice rests on a history of community organizing in queer of color communities, including working in collectives to develop decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies. Over the past several years, they have participated in anti-surveillance and hacker spaces including at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit and Chaos Computer Congress in Leipzig. Their work has been extensively supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as by the generosity of queer and BIPoC communities. José De Sancristóbal (b. 1995, Monterrey) is an artist that explores the interplay between narrative and image-making processes, examining how these interact to construct meaning and shape perception. Employing photography, video, film, and installation, he delves into the personal and inherited stories that frame our sense of self beyond the confines of a single lifetime. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Universidad de Monterrey, during which he also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He has been a Fellow of the Young Creators Program (Jóvenes Creadores) from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in Mexico, and was awarded an acquisition prize for the 2nd edition of Nuevo Leon’s State Art Award. He is the recipient of the Graduate Research Grant and the Paschke Grant at Northwestern University, and is currently a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow. His work has been exhibited at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City; Biquini Wax, Mexico City; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; FF projects, Monterrey; Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey; City Surfer Office, Prague; Glassbox, Paris; among others. He co-directed Malteada La Vida, an artist-run space in Monterrey, from 2017 to 2019, and is currently collaborating with Isaac Vázquez in a curatorial project titled Reference:. Katie Revilla (b. 1994, San Francisco, the unceded homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone) is an artist who combines personal narrative, magic realism, and the proximity of specific events to translate installation and performance based work. She stages detailed assemblages to create an experience that is not historically factual, but rather a fragmented journey through systems of belief, value, and reconciliation. Her work has been shown throughout the U.S., and included in exhibitions at Southern Exposure, SF; Root Division, SF; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; New Wight Gallery, LA; Knockdown Center, NY; Printed Matter, NY; among others. Revilla has been published in KQED Arts, East Bay Express, UC Berkeley Arts+Design Issue 02, and ONX Season 03. In 2017, she received a BA in Art Practice and the Lauren Krikorian Award from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019 she was an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, and attended ACRE Residency in 2021. This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment. Image courtesy of Cory Perry, 2023. 

Jun
20
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
21
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
21
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
21
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
22
2023

White Light Therapy

10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago

Human Resources has partnered with the Women's Center to provide light therapy on the Chicago campus Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. All are welcome in the space. This service is available on the Evanston campus in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion Wellness Suite.   All are welcome. Please complete one-time consent form before using lamp. 

Jun
22
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
22
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
23
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.  

Jun
23
2023

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston

The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War. Collective action manifested through the efforts of such organizations as For Members Only (FMO) and the Associated Student Government (ASG), as well as such groups as the student band The Life and Death Situation and the Amazingrace collective. Like the jazz ensembles that enlivened and enlightened venues across the nation, students let their voices and instruments be heard, both on the streets—participating in such actions as the Bursar’s office takeover in 1968 and the anti-war demonstrations of 1970—and onstage at venues like the Amazingrace Coffeehouse. The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis. The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is curated by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School, Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries.Back to Top 

Jun
23
2023

Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory

9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston

The Dearborn Observatory is open for public viewing every Friday night from 9 to 11 pm during the spring and summer months (Apr-Sept). The sessions are free and open to all. Reservations are required for the first hour but walk-ins are welcome in the second hour. All visitors should note that the dome is neither heated nor air-conditioned so please dress appropriately. Friday evening sessions are held "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the Dearborn is NOT ADA-accessible. Several staircases must be climbed in order to reach the telescope. To make a reservation go to http://sites.northwestern.edu/dearborn/. For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website. If you have any questions, please email Adrienne Mintz at adrienne.mintz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3644.

Jun
24
2023

The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston

What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record. The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science.  Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space? In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate  pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe. The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion. The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts. The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023). Major support is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support is contributed by the Dorothy J. Speidel Fund, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and the Alumnae of Northwestern University.