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.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, Online
This virtual session will allow instructors to get hands-on experience using Zoom. An overview of Zoom, its features, and its Canvas integration will be provided. Attendees will then be able to offer additional questions and try out various features while in the session.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
The Office of the President & One Book One Northwestern are pleased to announce that the One Book keynote with Bryan Stevenson will take place on Tuesday, May 3 at 4:30 pm at Pick Staiger.
Author Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption was the 2020-2021 selection for One Book One Northwestern. Professor Stevenson’s keynote was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are delighted to have this opportunity to continue the conversation that began last year.
Faculty Chair Jennifer Lackey, the Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law (courtesy) will be in conversation with Mr. Stevenson. In addition to the tickets, we will be providing a live stream of the conversation for everyone unable to obtain a ticket. Only people who register for tickets will be provided the link for the live stream.
This event is free and open to the public. The Northwestern community will get early access to the tickets.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
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6:15 PM - 8:15 PM, Evanston
What do we believe and why is it important? This CORE uses the Creed as a jumping off point to about who Jesus is for us and the lens through which Catholics look at and think about God, the Church, and Salvation. Open to everyone.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Victor Goines and Darius Hampton, conductors
Swing can be defined as “willful participation, with style and coordination.” This concert of original compositions by Northwestern jazz studies students will be just that: music created willfully, with styles beautifully coordinated in oneness.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Steven Cohen and Mark Nuccio
Kyle Dudley, flute; Natalie Johnson, oboe; Hoho Liu, bassoon; Rachel Côte, horn; Nathanael Canfield, piano
Valerie Coleman, Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano
Jennifer Higdon, Autumn Music
Clara Schumann (arr. Max Opferkuch), Drei Romanzen, Op. 22
Elliott Carter, Gra for solo clarinet
Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
For more information, please login to Handshake.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
For more information, please login to Handshake.
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Don't miss out on this special sale event sponsored by ARTica Studios, Game Room and NorrisOutdoors. Find great deals on used game consoles, controllers, video games, thermarest camping pads and lots of fun pottery. Prices are from $2 and up.
Credit card only- All sales are final no refunds or exchanges.
Free NorrisOutdoors reusable grocery bags
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Chicago
Weekly Mass in Chicago
Join Sheil's Chicago campus community for Mass at 12:10 each Wednesday during the academic weeks.
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Online
For more information, please login to Handshake.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Digital archives, like Black poetry that reaches back to the past, structure neighborhoods of meaning that bring home lost records and loss records to those who recognize them. In doing so, they trace how cultural descendants go back to lost sources, using innovative methods and resurrectionary poetics to sit in conversation with Black historical hauntings and to make space for–and to make peace for–our living dead.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, Christopher Davis, and Douglas Wright
Yoko Yamada, piano
Jan Koetsier, Allegro Maestoso, Op. 58, No. 2
Eugène Bozza, New Orleans
Franz Schubert, Three Schubert Lieder
Alexey Lebedev, Concertante Allegro
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gerardo Ribeiro
Nathan Canfield, piano
Pablo de Sarasate, Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
Maurice Ravel, Violin Sonata No. 2
Richard Strauss, Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Liang-yu Wang, piano
Sergei Prokofiev, Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119
David Popper, Elfentanz, Op. 39
Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Online
About this event:
Build your Canvas course with confidence! This workshop provides an overview of the basic features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas to allow you to build and support engaging courses.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
Spend the final weekday of Sexual Assualt Awareness month recharging with us at our Evanston Women's Center.
Come for a Tarot Card reading, snacks, crafts, white light therapy, or just to relax.
All staff, faculty, and students seeking an end to sexual violence on university campuses are welcome to join us.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
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.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Registration required.
The presentation will provide an overview of the complex relationship between disorders of the heart and kidney, how disease pathogenesis in one promotes disease pathogenesis in the other, and how novel treatments are targeting both organ systems.
Guest:
Rupal Mehta, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Rupal Mehta, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Mehta's broad research focus is in generating new evidence to improve diagnostics and therapeutics for cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. Specifically, her research program uses complementary population-based and interventional patient-oriented research studies to identify and advance potential targets for the prevention and treatment of heart failure in patients with chronic kidney disease.
This webinar is part of the Translational Applications in Public Health mini-series, which is a collaboration between the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute.
For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Perri Klass, MD
Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics
New York University
Co-Director, NYU Florence
National Medical Director, Reach Out and Read
Living to Grow Up: How Childhood Death Became “Unnatural”
The talk will look at the decline in childhood death over the last century and a half, looking at medical, social, literary aspects of this remarkable shift, at how parenthood and pediatrics have changed, at the troubling persistent inequities and dilemmas, and at what this history suggests to us about our current situation.
This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.
**PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK**
REGISTER HERE
Read more about this series | Sign up for lecture announcements
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Join us during the lunch hour for a virtual session to gear up for NAISA's Spring Pow Wow on Saturday, May 7th, 2022. Attendees will learn the elements of a pow wow, basic etiquette, and have a chance for open Q&A.
Session will be led by Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/Dine) from Redline Singers.
Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
Register for this virtual session here: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcucuCurjMvGNDo2G-bpZLrJbB8qzsunjbp
For more info about NAISA's Spring Pow Wow, visit https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/587890
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Don't miss out on this special sale event sponsored by ARTica Studios, Game Room and NorrisOutdoors. Find great deals on used game consoles, controllers, video games, thermarest camping pads and lots of fun pottery. Prices are from $2 and up.
Credit card only- All sales are final no refunds or exchanges.
Free NorrisOutdoors reusable grocery bags
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
As the University continues its transition from Box to Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Northwestern students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend this live training webinar led by the Microsoft Store Team featuring Microsoft Cloud Storage: OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.
Get comfortable with OneDrive and SharePoint, and make the most of their many features and capabilities!
What you will learn:
- Access and edit your files from all your devices
- Share inside or outside your organization
- Work together in real-time on Office documents
- Quickly find the files that matter to you
- Keep your files protected and backed up
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Have an itch to be creative? Overwhelmed with the passion to make? This class is for you. Intro to Sculpture is a Ceramics Course dedicated to teaching students classic handbuilding techniques to sculpt whatever their mind desires. Whether it’s a mug, plate, or even a hyper-realistic squirrel caricature, this class will help you achieve your wildest sculptural dreams. Students will be learning basic and intermediate handbuilding skills, including but not limited to, Kurinuki, Slab Building, Coiling, and Solid building. Using these along with sgraffito, inlay, and Mishima techniques, demonstrations will be given to show you how to transform the surface of your creations with your own designs. Come join us for an afternoon filled with adventure, creativity, and fun.
*Supplies are included.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. Her recent publications include Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race and Sexuality (co-edited with Melissa Sanchez; Routledge, 2016; essays on early modern global contact; on race and embodiment; caste and its implications for understanding racial philosophies, and race in modern India.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Music Studies Global Distinguished Speakers Series
Professor Ruth HaCohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In this talk, Professor Ruth HaCohen discusses the soundtracks of two "Joban" movies whose plots take place in the 1950s and '60s in the American Midwest. The first film, the Coen brothers' A Serious Man (2009), is "Jewish" in the sense that its protagonists are active members of a practicing Jewish community in a Minnesota suburb. The second, Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (2011), is "Christian," as it centers on a family who are members of a Catholic community in Texas. Both movies are autobiographical, as their authors attest. The talk takes as its point of departure the long legacy of the Book of Job's reception in each of the respective religious communities as well as their traditional contrasting approaches to questions of noise and harmony. It seeks to show the critical role played by the sonic dimension of the movies for fathoming their deeper meaning vis à-vis their Joban orientation.
This lecture hinges on possible interpretations of Job 38, 7: "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," which Malick took as a motto for his movie: Did the stars cum sons of God sing and shout in harmony, or did they produce noise? In theological terms, does the Book of Job, its "lieto fine" notwithstanding, point towards salvation or disillusionment? And to what sort of salvation or disillusionment does it point, when viewed in terms of the movies' retrospective gaze at the America of their childhood time? Taken together, the films, I argue, artistically express significant trends in Jewish and Christian theologies, and, wittingly or unwittingly, write new chapters in each.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
In this course, students will learn to perfect their ceramic techniques through intermediate and advanced tips and tricks. Students will learn how to throw a range of functional work and explore ways of decorating and glazing. Students will be expected to address their work creatively- in hopes to create and sustain a ceramic practice and portfolio. The goal of this course is to bring confidence to budding ceramic artists through strengthening throwing skills and finding community within the studio.
*Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class
** Supplies are included
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Karen Brunssen
Charles Foster, piano
Vincenzo Bellini, Selections from Sei Ariette, B II. 5
Henri Duparc, Mélodies
Richard Strauss, Vier Lieder, Op. 27
Francis George Scott, Five Scottish Songs
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of David Bilger, Michael Sachs, and Thomas Rolfs
Yoko Yamada, piano
James Stephenson, Three Impromptus
Eugène Bozza, Rustiques
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto in E Major, S. 49
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Online
For more information, please login to Handshake.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of John Thorne
Kay Kim, piano
Carl Maria von Weber (arr. Paul Taffanel), Fantasy on Der Freischütz for flute and piano
Carlos Simon, Move It for solo flute
J. S. Bach, Sonata in E Minor for Flute and Piano, BWV 1034
Amanda Harberg, Sonata for Piccolo and Piano
Franz Schubert, Introduction and Variations for Flute and Piano, D. 802
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Yuan-Qing Yu
Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata in G Minor, L. 140
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
Learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas Prerequisite: Intro to Canvas Workshop.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas.
Participants in this workshop should already be familiar with the features and functionality of Canvas by completing the Introduction to Canvas workshop.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
Please join us for a fireside chat with Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor for international economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. In this capacity, Mr. Singh coordinates the Administration’s policymaking process for a range of issues at the intersection of economic policy and national security, including global growth, supply chain resilience, innovation policy, economic statecraft, digitization, financial stability, anti-corruption and climate finance. As the U.S. Sherpa to the G7 and G20, he also acts as President Biden’s representative in major international fora.
As one of the architects of the sanctions the United States implemented on Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year, Mr. Singh will discuss what kind of collective actions, including sanctions, have been most effective and what more needs to be done. Further, he will elucidate on the role that the G7 and other multilateral groups can play in addressing this ongoing conflict, and more broadly, how universities can engage with the G7, G20 and other multilateral groups to address global challenges.
In conversation with Annelise Riles, Executive Director, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Associate Provost for Global Affairs, Northwestern University.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson and Ted Deddens, piano; Helaine Liebman, soprano; Lauren Randolph, mezzo-soprano; Will Johnson, and Will Tanski, tenor; Antonio Ruiz-Nokes, baritone; Luke Mott, bass-baritone; Joseph Hack, bass; Matthew Steinbaum, violin
Erik Satie, “Je te veux”
Erik Satie, “La diva de l’empire”
Hugo Wolf, selections from Mörike-Lieder
Francesco Paolo Tosti, “Aprile”
Francesco Paolo Tosti, “Sogno”
Francesco Paolo Tosti, “Chitarrata abruzzese”
Gaetano Donizetti, “Prendi, per mi sei libero” from L’elisir d’amore
George Frideric Handel, “Venere bella” from Giulio Cesare
Richard Strauss, “Presentation of the Rose” from Der Rosenkavalier
Giacomo Puccini, “Signore, ascolta!” from Turandot
Giacomo Puccini, “Quando m’en vo” from La bohème
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Dylan Hong, soprano saxophone; Jared Marble, tenor saxophone; Alvin Wong, baritone saxophone; Nathan Canfield, piano
Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia No. 6 in D Minor
Dorothy Chang, Afterlight
Paul Creston, Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 26
Edison Denisov, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Takuma Itoh, Echolocation
Michael Daugherty, Steamboat
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
All day, Evanston
Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, in collaboration with Multicultural Students Affairs, is excited to host our 1st Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow: Honoring the Matriarchy.
This year’s Pow Wow will take place on Saturday May 7th, 2022 at Welsh Ryan Arena.
Doors open at 11:00 AM.
Grand entry will begin the Pow Wow at 12:00 PM and the Pow Wow will then conclude at 5:00 PM.
Free Parking at the Welsh-Ryan Arena. Free Campus Shuttle Service available.
Find out more infromation at https://www.northwestern.edu/msa/programs/spring-pow-wow.html
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Please join the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 at the First Annual Traditional Spring Pow Wow: Honoring the Matriarchy.
This event is open to all and is a space for Native and non-Native people to gather together to dance, eat, socialize, share art, be in community, and much more. A Pow Wow is a family-friendly, intergenerational cultural celebration held by many Native and Indigenous communities. This is a space free of any and all drugs and alcohol, and we are asking attendees to familiarize themselves with pow wow etiquette—NAISA will be providing educational resources for those planning to attend.
We encourage mask wearing to help protect our communities, and our most vulnerable.
We look forward to being in community with you at our 1st Annual Spring Pow Wow!
Contact: Isabel St. Arnold (isabelstarnold2022@u.northwestern.edu)
CNAIR is a proud co-sponsor for this event!
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Yuan-Qing Yu
Tamila Salimdjanova, piano
Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonate No. 2, Op. 27
Maurice Ravel, Violin Sonata No. 2
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
This annual competition featuring Northwestern piano students nominated by the piano faculty of the Bienen School of Music was established by the late Professor Samuel Thaviu and his wife, Eleanor Thaviu, to honor professor Donald Isaak. The Thaviu/Isaak Award in Piano Performance is the Northwestern piano program’s most prestigious honor.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of W. Stephen Smith
Giuseppe Verdi, “Questa o quella” from Rigoletto
Ben Moore, Dear Theo
Charles Gounod, “Ah! lève-toi, soleil!” from Roméo et Juliette
W. A. Mozart, “Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke” from Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Richard Strauss, selections from Letzte Blätter, Op. 10
Henri Duparc, selected songs
Giuseppe Verdi, “La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Alexander Chen, Andrew Ritchie, Yuxin Dai, Jennifer Huang, and Jake Taniguchi, conductors; members of Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Join students of the Bienen School’s graduate conducting program as they lead the orchestra in beloved repertoire.
Antonín Dvořák, Carnival Overture, Op. 92, B. 169
Giuseppe Verdi, La forza del destino Overture
Giuseppe Verdi, I vespri siciliani Overture
Carl Maria von Weber, Der Freischütz Overture
Gioachino Rossini, William Tell Overture
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Donald Nally
Benjamin Britten, A.M.D.G.
Samuel Barber, God’s Grandeur
Samuel Barber (arr. Samuel Barber), Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
Heinrich Schütz, “Meine Seele erhebt den Herren,” SWV 426 from Zwölf geistliche Gesänge, Op. 13
Judd Greenstein, Amergin
J. S. Bach, Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of James Giles
Michelle Mariposa, mezzo-soprano; Dominick Douglas, viola
Antonino Buenaventura, Ako’y Nangangarap
Johannes Brahms, Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Henri Duparc, “L’invitation au voyage”
Henri Duparc, “Soupir”
Henri Duparc, “Phidylé”
Henri Duparc, “Au pays où se fait la guerre”
Darius Milhaud, Four Visages for Viola and Piano, Op. 238
Nan-Chang Chien, Walking Alone in the Rain
Francisco Santiago, “Ano Kaya Ang Kapalaran”
Nan-Chang Chien, A Touch of Zen
Nan-Chang Chien, A Blossoming Tree
Nicanor Abelardo, “Mutya ng Pasig”
Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of David Bilger, Michael Sachs, and Thomas Rolfs
Yoko Yamada, piano
Otto Ketting, Intrada
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major
Philippe Gaubert, Cantabile et Scherzetto
Karl Pilss, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Aaron DuBois, a new work
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Blair Milton
Nathanael Canfield, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Romance in G Major, Op. 39
Franz Schubert, Rondo in B Minor for Violin and Piano (“Rondo Brillant”), D. 895
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
This annual competition featuring Northwestern string students nominated by the string faculty of the Bienen School of Music was established by the late Professor Samuel Thaviu and his wife, Elinor Thaviu. The Samuel and Elinor Thaviu Award in String Performance is the Northwestern string program’s most prestigious honor.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
She-e Wu, director
An afternoon of eclectic rhythms.
Casey Cangelosi, Jazz on Saturn
Alejandro Viñao, I. Bright and Dark from Stress and Flow
Greg Simon, Snake Oil
Bob Becker, Mudra
Tim Ferchen, Together (world premiere)
Diaspora Suite
Ewe Traditional, Gota
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition
Student of Hans Thomalla
~Nois: Julian Velasco, soprano saxophone; Hunter Bockes, alto saxophone; Jordan Luloff, tenor and alto saxophones; János Csontos, baritone saxophone
Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Mathew Arrellin, cello
Music by Mathew Arrellin:
Metasomatic: Portals (2021) for saxophone quartet
Metasomatic: Bifurcations (2018) for cello
Still/Alive (2021) for bassoon
Apertures (2017) for saxophone quartet
Metasomatic: Vapors (2018-19) for alto saxophone
Metasomatic: Apparitions (2018) for cello
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Nancy Gustafson
Paula Perez-Glassner, soprano; Geoffrey Schmelzer, baritone; Daniel Szefer, piano
Music of W. A. Mozart
“Als Luise die Briefe,” K. 520
“Ridente la calma,” K. 152
“Das Veilchen,” K. 476
“Un moto di gioia,” K. 579
“Ach, ich fühl’s” from Die Zauberflöte
“Porgi, Amor” from Le nozze di Figaro
“Susanna, or via sortite” from Le nozze di Figaro
“Esci ormai, garzon malnato” from Le nozze di Figaro
“Signore, cos’è quel stopore” from Le nozze di Figaro
“E Susanna non vien!... Dove sono i bei momenti” from Le nozze di Figaro
“Sull’aria” from Le nozze di Figaro
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
This session offers instructors an overview using Panopto to accept student video submissions through Canvas. Attendees will leave ready to give students the instructions they need to create and submit video assignments. This session will also go over reviewing and grading video submissions.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Please note that all IPR colloquia this spring will be held simultaneously in person and online. Registration is only required for the online talks. IPR will be following local, state, federal, and University guidelines for events. Masking is optional, but encouraged.
"Pursuing Research on Racial Equity in a Polarized Environment"
by Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation
This event is part of the spring 2022 IPR Fay Lomax Cook Colloquium Series.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Join Larry Birnbaum (CS) and Amy Schwartz (Segal Design Institute) for a talk entitled "Learning to Look."
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Nathan Canfield, piano
Vincent David, Mirages
Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia No. 8 in E Minor from 12 Fantasias for Flute without Bass, TWV 40:9
Luciano Berio, Sequenza IXb
Paul Creston, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 26
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
This performance will also be presented as a live stream.
Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello
The Dover Quartet’s residency is sponsored in part by the generous support of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
Catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of all prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2013, the Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. Among their honors and awards are the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center's Hunt Family Award, as well as grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The quartet's 2021-22 season includes world premiere performances of Marc Neikrug's Piano Quintet No. 2 at the Kennedy Center with Haochen Zhang, Chris Rogerson's Dream Sequence for Santa Fe Pro Musica with Anne-Marie McDermott, and Steven Mackey's theatrical musical work Memoir at Artosphere with arx duo and narrator Natalie Christa. In October 2021, the quartet released its second volume of the complete Beethoven string quartets on the Cedille Records label.
Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 53 in D Major (“The Lark”), Op. 64, No. 5, Hob. III:6
Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 83
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelors of Music
Students of Hans Thomalla
Music by Leo Discenza
You Saved Me
how I lost my name
When Philomel Her Voice Doth Raise
Held
According to fixed rules
An Equilibrium of Forces
Scene at Lake with Beavers
how I lost my name (supplement)
Music by Kate Li
Odi et Amo for SATB vocals
a call for SATB vocals
xiao yanzi for SAT vocals, cello, and piano
weishenme? For SAT vocals, cello, and piano
Resolve, Resolved for oboe and piano
I Want... for piano trio
A proximate feelings of Mine for cello and electronics
Raindrops for electronics
consolations in F for piano
Music by Kate Li and Leo Discenza
everything that's interesting is New for SATB vocals
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Christopher Davis, and Randall Hawes
Jesus Linarez, violin; Yoko Yamada, piano
Henri Dutilleux, Chorale, Cadence, et Fugato
Launy Grøndahl, Trombone Concerto
Johannes Brahms, Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Learn about applying for a Fulbright fellowship to teach English abroad
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
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7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Victor Goines, Daniel Rosman, Jackson Brown, and Samantha Winkler, clarinet; She-e Wu and Benjamin Krauss, percussion; Kay Kim, piano; Oleksa Mycyk, cello
Before their retirement from the Bienen School, clarinet professor Steven Cohen and horn professor Gail Williams give a final recital together with their colleagues and students, featuring multiple world premieres. Prior to joining the Bienen School faculty, Steven Cohen served as principal clarinet and frequent soloist with the New Orleans Symphony, later known as the Louisiana Philharmonic. Each summer since 1979, Cohen has performed as principal clarinet at the Brevard Music Center, and he gives solo recitals and master classes throughout the world. Principal horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Gail Williams has served as associate principal horn with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and as a member of the Lyric Opera Orchestra. Williams is an original member of Summit Brass, and has played an active role in commissioning projects and performing contemporary solo works for horn.
Carl Nielsen, Humoresque Bagatelles, Op. 11
Dana Wilson, Amid the sadness . . . (world premiere)
Victor Goines, Gonna Take That Train Home (world premiere)
Catherine Likhuta, Lesions
James Stephenson, RE:NU for Clarinet, French Horn, and Two Percussion (world premiere)
Johann Strauss (trans. Kevin Walko), Die Fledermaus Overture, Op. 367 for clarinet quartet
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of James Giles
Heitor Villa-Lobos, O Gato e o rato (The Cat and the Mouse)
Aaron Copland, The Cat and the Mouse (Scherzo Humoristique)
Erik Satie, Le poisson rêveur (The Dreamy Fish)
Claude Debussy, No. 3: Poissons d’or (Goldfish) from Images, Book II
Franz Liszt, No. 1: St. Francis Preaching to the Birds from Deux légendes, S. 175
Jianzhong Wang, Hundreds of Birds Paying Respect to the Phoenix
Sergei Prokofiev (trans. Tatyana Nikolayeva), Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
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7:00 PM - 8:00 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.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Nadia Boulanger, 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
Claude Debussy (arr. Aleksandr Grechaninov), Beau soir, L. 6
Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Cello and Piano, FP 143
J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
This all-day event will showcase the projects of the Kaplan Public Humanities Graduate Research Workshop participants. We invite the broader Northwestern community to a multifaceted conversation about the public humanities at the university and beyond.
Location Key
Kaplan Seminar Room is Kresge #2350.
Trienens Forum is Kresge #1515.
Schedule
Each presentation will be followed by Q&A/discussion. You can read about each presenter's projects HERE.
9:30 am – Breakfast (Kaplan Seminar Room)
9:45 am – Welcome, Jessica Winegar, Kaplan Institute Director, and Panel 1 (Trienens Forum)
Holly Dayton Swenson
Alexandrea Keith
Alexandra De Leon
Ruslana Lichtzier
11:10 am – Panel 2 (Trienens Forum)
Arcade Willis
Ariana Turner
Anna Zalokostas
Deisi Cuate
Eduardo Bello and Heloisa Imada
12:30 pm – Lunch (Kaplan Seminar Room)
1:30 pm – Panel 3 (Trienens Forum)
Golden Owens
Chelsea Taylor
Seyma Kabaoglu
Gervais Marsh
Sarah Lee
2:55pm – Panel 4 (Trienens Forum)
Daniela Raillard
AriasMarissa Croft
Alexandra Gonzalez
Emiliano Aguilar
Caitlin Monroe and Rebecca Rwakabukoza
4:15pm – Reception (Kaplan Seminar Room)
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Registration required.
In this webinar, we will interview Jack Weinberg, an environmental health activist with a 60+ year track record of fighting for the rights of the public. His activism started in the 1960s with civil rights, the Free Speech Movement, Anti-Vietnam War, and union activism. Weinberg’s environmental health activism started in 1977 when he led a coalition of environmentalists, unionists, and community members in Northwest Indiana to halt construction on a nuclear power plant because of the health risks it posed. This was followed by 10 years at Greenpeace and then almost 25 years developing and supporting environmental health interventions in the global public policy space. During those years he helped develop and mentor numerous country-based initiatives and NGO leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the former Soviet States, and the MENA region.
Guest:
Jack Weinberg
Activist
Adjunct Faculty in Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
This webinar is co-hosted by the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) at Northwestern University and IPHAM's Center for Education in Health Sciences.
For more public health news, events, and announcements, visit the IPHAM website: https://feinberg.northwestern.edu/ipham
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Sandy Sufian, PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Humanities, History and Disability Studies
University of Illinois-Chicago
Familial Fitness: A Conversation About the History of Adoption and Disability in America
This event will be a conversation about Professor Sufian’s new book on the history of the adoption of children with disabilities in 20th century America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). The dialogue will focus on the central themes Professor Sufian explores in the book and the contributions to history of disability and history of adoption she makes in the work.
This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.
**PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK**
REGISTER HERE
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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
As the University continues its transition from Box to Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Northwestern students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend this live training webinar led by the Microsoft Store Team featuring an introduction to SharePoint.
What you will learn:
- Successfully navigate SharePoint Online Communication and Team Sites
- Understand Microsoft 365 groups
- Work with SharePoint Online document libraries
- Share files and folders with users outside of a group
- Utilize shared resources in team sites, including lists, plans, and notebooks
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Have an itch to be creative? Overwhelmed with the passion to make? This class is for you. Intro to Sculpture is a Ceramics Course dedicated to teaching students classic handbuilding techniques to sculpt whatever their mind desires. Whether it’s a mug, plate, or even a hyper-realistic squirrel caricature, this class will help you achieve your wildest sculptural dreams. Students will be learning basic and intermediate handbuilding skills, including but not limited to, Kurinuki, Slab Building, Coiling, and Solid building. Using these along with sgraffito, inlay, and Mishima techniques, demonstrations will be given to show you how to transform the surface of your creations with your own designs. Come join us for an afternoon filled with adventure, creativity, and fun.
*Supplies are included.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
In this course, students will learn to perfect their ceramic techniques through intermediate and advanced tips and tricks. Students will learn how to throw a range of functional work and explore ways of decorating and glazing. Students will be expected to address their work creatively- in hopes to create and sustain a ceramic practice and portfolio. The goal of this course is to bring confidence to budding ceramic artists through strengthening throwing skills and finding community within the studio.
*Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class
** Supplies are included
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Kurt Hansen
Lyra Johnson, soprano; Paige Dirkes-Jacks, mezzo-soprano; Karina Kontorovitch and Oliver Paddock, piano
Alan Menken, “Go the Distance” from Hercules
Jerry Bock, “Ilona” from She Loves Me
Henri Duparc, “Chanson triste”
Steven Lutvak, “I’ve Decided to Marry You” from A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Mark Fax, “Cassandra’s Lullaby”
Jason Robert Brown, “If I Didn’t Believe in You” from The Last Five Years
Francis Poulenc, Bleuet
Joseph Marx, “Selige Nacht”
J. S. Bach, “Ach wenn wird die zeit erscheinen” from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
George Frideric Handel, “Comfort ye my people” from Messiah, HWV 56
William Bolcom, “New York Lights” from A View from the Bridge
Lori Laitman, “The Metropolitan Tower”
Stephen Schwartz (vocal arr. Cameron Miya) “Beautiful City” from Godspell
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, Christopher Davis, and R. Douglas Wright
Yoko Yamada, piano
Eugène Bozza, New Orleans
Franz Schubert, selections from Schwanengesang, D. 957
Franz Schubert, “Du bist die Ruh’,” Op. 59, No. 3
David R. Gillingham, Sonata for Bass Trombone and Piano
Raymond Premru, Prelude and Dance
Jan Koetsier, Allegro Maestoso, Op. 58, No. 2
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Andrew Raciti
Nathan Canfield, piano
Xavier Dubois Foley, Étude No. 3, “Lament”
J. S. Bach, Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Serge Koussevitzky, Valse Miniature
Johann Baptist Vanhal, Double Bass Concerto in D Major
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of James Giles
Morgan Small, soprano; Jelena Lee, violin; Rebekah Yang, cello
Vincenzo Bellini, “Il fervido desiderio”
Vincenzo Bellini, selections from Sei ariette
I. “Malinconia, ninfa gentile”
II. “Vanne, o rosa fortunata”
Reynaldo Hahn, “Si mes vers avaient des ailes”
Reynaldo Hahn, “D’une prison”
Reynaldo Hahn, “L’énamourée”
Richard Strauss, "Allerseelen” from Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10
Johannes Brahms, “Vergebliches Ständchen” from 5 Romanzen und Gesänge, Op. 84
Richard Strauss, “Zueignung” from Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10
Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Join us for our ad hoc reading group, an informal discussion about selected articles, films, and artworks related to death and dying. This month we will read and discuss....
"The Brightest Thing in the World"
This article by Matthew Goulish (School of the Art Institute; Co-founder, Every house has a door) is from his collection, The Brightest Thing on Earth: 3 Lectures from the Institute for Failure (Green Lantern press, 2015). In this essay of associative learning, Goulish intertwines a memoriam for his dear departed friend and colleague George Roeder, with the writings of early-20th-century dying naturalist, W.N.P. Barbellion.
Matthew Goulish will join us to discuss his piece and the process of writing a remembrance.
The reading is available through the registration link below.
This event is free and open to the public. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Dr. Sami Schalk (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Schalk’s interdisciplinary research focuses broadly on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially speculative fiction and Black literature. Dr. Schalk’s first book Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press 2018) argues that Black women writers of speculative fiction reimagine the possibilities and limits of bodyminds, changing the way we read and interpret categories like (dis)ability, race, gender and sexuality within the context of these non-realist texts. She is currently working on a second book project on disability politics in contemporary Black activism, including the Black Panthers and the National Black Women’s Health Project.
Sponsored by Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Women's Center, English, and African American Studies.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of John Thorne
Kay Kim, piano
C. P. E. Bach (arr. Kurt Walther), Hamburger Sonata in G Major, Wq. 133
Michael Daugherty, The High and the Mighty
Shulamit Ran, East Wind
Carl Reinecke (arr. Stephanie Jutt), Sonata Undine, Op. 167
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Mallory Thompson, conductor
This evening’s performance features music of the heart and the mind. The concert opens with the pairing of David Diamond’s second work for winds, Heart’s Music, and Albert Olver Davis’s setting of Strauss’s heart-wrenching lied Allerseelen. Also on the program is Ida Gotkovsky’s tone poem Poème du feu, depicting humankind’s discovery of fire. The second half of the concert is devoted to a staple of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble’s repertoire, Michael Colgrass’s Winds of Nagual, a work that delves into alternate realities of the mind.
David Diamond, Heart’s Music
Richard Strauss (trans. Albert Olver Davis, ed. Frederick Fennell), Allerseelen
Ida Gotkovsky, Poème du feu
Michael Colgrass, Winds of Nagual
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of José Ramón Méndez
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Mikhail Pletnev), Concert Suite from The Nutcracker
W. A. Mozart, 10 Variations on “Unser dummer Pöbel meint” in G Major, K. 445
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1
Robert Schumann, I. So rasch wie möglich from Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Yasuko Oura
Geoffrey Schmelzer, baritone; Rose Haselhorst, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven, An die Ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98
Maurice Ravel, Histoires naturelles (Natural Histories)
César Franck, Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing invites you to join us for a very special virtual screening of the new documentary BLACK AS U R followed by a Q&A with award-winning director Micheal Rice.
The screening will take place virtually on Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 12:00pm Central Time.
Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
This event is sponsored by the ISGMH Equity Committee.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of David Bilger, Thomas Rolfs, and Michael Sachs
Colin Akers, horn; Quincy Erickson and Ari Rios, trumpet; Holden Welch and Joe Nedder, trombone; Reid Harman, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano; Drew McComas, drums; Alex Carroll, bass
Henri Tomasi, Triptyque for trumpet and piano
Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
Victor Ewald, Brass Quintet No. 1, Op. 5
Joe Nedder, a new work
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Nathanael Canfield, piano
Cécile Chaminade (trans. Harry Xie), Flute Concertino in D Major, Op. 107
William Albright, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Matthew Emery, Walk Safely Over Soft Places
Joel Love, Solace: A Lyric Concerto
Tickets are not required for this event.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Jack Reeder, conductor; Haoying Wu, keyboard
Northwestern Camerata’s spring concert is centered around Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things,” contemplating our material and spiritual relationship with nature. Works by Libby Larsen, Joan Szymko, Ola Gjeilo, and David Lang are featured.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gene Pokorny and Matthew Gaunt
Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Rachel Côté, horn; Yoko Yamada, piano
Bruce Broughton, Sonata (Concerto) for Tuba and Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in C Minor
Ryan Lindveit, Sleep Dancing (world premiere)
Jose Flores, Solitary Meditations
Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Trumpet, Horn, and Trombone
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series
“The Beijing Duo’s performance was a model of elegant clarity, sumptuously beautiful tone production, and emotional contrast.” —San Francisco Classical Voice
Meng Su and Yameng Wang, guitar
The Beijing Guitar Duo, a collaboration between award-winning guitarists Meng Su and Yameng Wang, has performed in concert halls around the world, such as the Concertgebouw, Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall, and the National Theatre in Beijing. The Duo’s performances and recordings have met with great success and their debut CD, Maracaípe, earned them a Latin Grammy nomination for the titular piece. This season takes the Beijing Guitar Duo on a 12-city concert tour of the United States as well as to performances in Europe and China. The Duo regularly collaborates with orchestras, in ensemble with flutist Marina Piccinini, with guitarists the Grigoryan Brothers, and with their mentor Manuel Barrueco.
Domenico Scarlatti, Two Sonatas
Enrique Granados (arr. Gruber-Maklar Duo), Valses poéticos
William Walton, Five Bagatelles
Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Mazurka apasionada and Contemplación
Chen Yi, Nian Hua (Chinese New Year Paintings)
Astor Piazzolla, Tango Suite
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Jeremy Kahn
Austin Aldrich, bass; Darsan Swaroop Bellie, drums
Jerome Kern, “Nobody Else But Me”
Buddy Johnson, “Tell Me What They’re Saying (Can’t Be True)”
Irving Berlin, “The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)”
Dizzy Gillespie, Con Alma
Vince Guaraldi, Skating
Richard Rogers, “My Romance”
Jerome Kern, “The Song Is You”
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Randall Hawes, and Christopher Davis
Nick Mihalich, tenor trombone; Caleb Christiansen, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano
C. P. E. Bach, I. Poco adagio from Flute Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 132, H. 562
Henri Dutilleux, Choral, Cadence et Fugato for Trombone and Piano
Giacomo Puccini (arr. Robert Elkjer) “Quando m’en vo’soletta” (“Musetta’s Waltz”) from La bohème
George Frideric Handel (arr. Allen Ostrander), “Lascia ch’io pianga” (“Let me weep”) from Rinaldo
Jacques Casterede, Sonatine for Trombone
Georges Bizet (arr. Robert Elkjer), III. Intermezzo from Carmen Fantasy
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Christopher Davis, and Randall Hawes
Yoko Yamada, piano
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Henri Tomasi, Concerto pour trombone et orchestre
Georges Bizet (arr. Robert Elkjer), Carmen Fantasy
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Henoch
Kirsten Lee, violin; Johannah Carmona, viola; Meredith Steele, cello; Kay Kim, piano
Georg Philipp Telemann, Partita No. 2 in G Major, TWV 41:G2
Alyssa Morris, Collision Etudes for solo oboe
Nadia Boulanger (arr. Katherine Needleman), Trois pièces
W. A. Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Nancy Gustafson
Jason Carlson, piano
Hugo Wolf, selections from Goethe-Lieder
Claude Debussy, Quatre chansons de jeunesse
Jules Massenet, “Obeissons quand leur voix appelle” from Manon
Gioachino Rossini, selections from Soirées musicales
Leonard Bernstein, I Hate Music!
Jeanine Tesori, “The Girl in 14G”
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Alex Mincek
Eli Sullivan, alto saxophone; Jesse Lear, bass; Nick Landon, drums; Theodore Deddens, piano; KC Boatright, vocalist; Nicholas Abrahams, violin; Rebekah Yang, cello
Music by Ori Zur
Evolution
What Could Have Been
Now What?
Film Score Compilation
Vocal Piece
Rain Trio
Tickets are not required for this event.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Stephen Alltop, conductor; Moyue Zhou, assistant conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir and soloists; Baroque Music Ensemble
A concert offering a little “Christmas in May,” and Bach at his most glorious! The program includes Bach’s exultant Cantata No. 110, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (Our mouths are filled with laughter), first performed in Leipzig on December 25, 1725. The Cantata 191, Gloria in excelsis Deo, features a very large baroque orchestra and glorious passages for chorus and soloists. This cantata was later used by Bach for his Mass in B Minor and is among the most brilliant choral passages ever written. A sparkling Concerto for Three Violins in G Major by Georg Philipp Telemann rounds out this uplifting concert.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Daniel J. Farris, conductor
Talented students from across the Northwestern campus present a concert of band standards.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Leo Schlaifer, saxophone; Nathanael Canfield, piano
Francis Poulenc (trans. Matt Dardick), Sonata for Flute and Piano, FP 164
Kristin Kuster, Jellyfish
John Anthony Lennon, Distances Within Me
Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Tatatata
Edison Denisov, Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
The Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration is an annual event co-hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI) that celebrates the yearly contributions of Native and Indigenous graduates, students, faculty, staff, and community members. All students who participate will receive a white stole with purple and maple and oak leaves appliquéd by hand. Participates are asked to pre-register.
The Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration ceremony will be an in-person event on Sunday, May 15th at 5:00 PM CDT in the Guild Lounge on the Evanston Campus.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Donald Nally, conductor; Andrew Major, assistant conductor; ˜Nois Saxophone Quartet; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Theo Espy, violin; Kyle Flens and Reed Puleo, percussion; Elana Meyers and Jane Bergkotte, art/film
Northwestern Presidential Scholar and Bienen PhD candidate Luis Fernando Amaya’s Árbol de Bocas (“Tree of Mouths”) is a soundscape opera with accompanying film in which the only character is a fantastic tree inhabiting the middle grounds between the animal and vegetal realms. Experience a year in the life of a tree that grows mouths instead of leaves, immersed in the sound world of what this tree perceives through its non-human senses.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 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.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
Communicating Care
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Please join us for a fireside chat with Fiona Hill, senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at The Brookings Institution. Fiona also recently served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia in the National Intelligence Council.
As an expert in geopolitical and foreign policy issues, Fiona will offer insight into Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine and its implications. The discussion will also highlight key insights on the impact of deindustrialization on democracy and the factors driving American politics over the brink from Fiona's latest book, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.
In conversation with Annelise Riles, Executive Director, Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Associate Provost for Global Affairs, Northwestern University.
RSVP to attend in-person or virtually via Zoom for the Fireside Chat on Monday, May 16, 2022.
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Chicago
Northwestern University’s Master of Public Health Program invites you to the biannual Applied Practice Experience (APEx) Poster Presentation event!
· Celebrate student accomplishments
· Learn about public health projects happening in Chicago and beyond
· Network with members of the public health community
Refreshments and snacks provided!
Please RSVP by Friday, May 6th, 2022.
To RSVP or for questions, please contact dakota.chisholm@northwestern.edu
Parking Info:
Click here for map of parking lots. Passes only work at the following lots:
· Huron Superior Parking Lot A
· Erie Ontario Parking Lots C & D
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Kay Kim, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn, Horn Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Hob. VIId:3
Frédéric Chopin, Fantaisie in F Minor, Op. 49
Eugène Bozza, En Forêt
Franz Strauss, Nocturno, Op. 7
Hermann Neuling, Bagatelle
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
Kurt Hansen, tenor; Alan Darling and Karina Kontorovitch, piano
Manuel de Falla, Siete Canciones populares Españolas
Claude Debussy, Chansons de Bilitis
Benjamin Britten, Canticle II: “Abraham and Isaac,” Op. 51
Gaetano Donizetti, “Il segreto per esser felici” from Lucrezia Borgia
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Darius Hampton and Victor Goines, directors
Northwestern jazz studies students premiere their latest compositions in the final jazz concert of the academic year. The program features blues and ballads, swinging and grooving, and syncopation and improvisation: a concert representing what jazz is all about!
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of John Thorne, Jennifer Gunn, and Alyce Johnson
Kay Kim, piano
Mélanie Bonis, Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 64
Eve Beglarian, I Will Not Be Sad in This World for alto flute and pre-recorded audio
Eugène Damaré, Le bouquet de roses for piccolo and piano, Op. 408
Michael Colquhoun, Charanga
Samuel Zyman, Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Once a month One Book will host a chapter discussion of "The Story of More, How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here" By Hope Jahren. Each discussion will be led by a different One Book steering committee member. Having read the book is not necessary!!!
Join the discussion of Appendix: The Story of Less with Patricia Beddows. Dr. Beddows (Ph.D. University of Bristol) is director of the Environmental Sciences Program, Assistant Chair, and Associate Professor of Instruction. Her research interests are in hydrogeology, geochemistry, geomorphology, sedimentology, and much more.
Please note: We plan to meet in person. If we are unable to meet in person due to an increase in covid cases, we will host the event on-line via zoom. Attendees are expected to be vaccinated and masked. We will be providing snacks at this event.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Alex Mincek
Music by Craig Davis Pinson
Piece for Saxophone Quartet and Piano
Again Prefigured Then
Piece for Drum Set, Guitar, Bass, and Clarinet
No Fate Pig III
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Gail Williams, director
Music written and arranged for brass.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Performances of compositions by Bienen students.
Tickets are not required for this event.
All day, Evanston
TEACHx, Northwestern's annual conference to showcase experiments and celebrate successes in teaching and learning through technology, will return in person at the Norris University Center in Evanston on May 18, 2022.
This year's conference features a mix of presentations, panels, workshops, poster sessions, and pre-recorded videos, all framed by our theme: reconnect. Join us as we explore what it means to reconnect through the lenses of technology and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in the next normal of higher education.
Dr. Mays Imad will anchor the conference with her keynote address, Beyond Theory: Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing. She will help us to consider the power of knowledge; how understanding the neuroscience of toxic stress can empower us to self-regulate and help our students to cope, engage, connect, and learn.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
Renowned poet, activist, and Queer Black feminist scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs will be in conversation with disability justice theorist and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on rethinking the forms and possibilities of care and carework. As the pandemic continues alongside the onslaught of state sanctioned violence internationally and locally from war to policing to divestment from public housing, health, and education, the bodily impacts of exhaustion, grief, and mental health issues mount, especially on the bodies of sick and disabled queer Indigenous, Black, and people of color. This conversation is a moment to pause, reflect, and explore modes of worldmaking that allow us to cultivate more liberatory futures.
The dialogue will be moderated by Patricia Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern.
Co-presented by the Northwestern Women's Center, the Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora, and the Kaplan Humanities Institute, the event will be presented virtually via Zoom; registration is required (please click "register" link below).
This event will serve as a capstone to the ongoing conversations this year that have been initiated by Northwestern faculty and graduates as part of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's CARE Dialogue, a year-long conversation about care and its possibilities—to capture the urgency of the contemporary moment, and to contribute to the emergent discussions of how we can move through it while better tending to each other and our futures. Made possible in part by the Harris Lecture Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
"To America on Foot”: Romanian Jewish Fusgeyers from 1900 in History and Memory"
Dana Mihailescu, 2021-2022 Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor, Northwestern University
In 1900, during the great wave of Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe, a so-called fusgeyer movement became the most salient characteristic of Jewish emigration from Romania, given the high number of impoverished, alien, persecuted Jews who were on the brink of starvation and who suddenly decided to leave on foot towards the U.S. and Canada. My presentation considers the history and memory of the fusgeyer movement by tracking the 1900 representation of these emigrants in (Jewish/gentile) press articles, brochures, poems, and visual arts as well as the subsequent accounts due to Jewish cultural historians from Romania. I will compare these accounts from Romania with the American representation of the fusgeyer movement over time. I will show how the fusgeyer movement representation in the U.S. has been a conduit upholding transcultural networks of memory work. In this respect, I will consider the 1900-1903 press coverage of emigration on foot in the American Jewish and mainstream press, the 1900 visit to Romania and report of Robert Watchorn -- the U.S. government special agent sent to Romania by the Immigration Department, the 1903 Note of Secretary of State John Hay, M.E. Ravage’s 1917 autobiography An American in the Making, Jacob Finkelstein’s 1942 Yiddish-language “Reminiscences of a Fusgeyer from Romania to America” and Stuart Tower’s 2003 historical novel The Wayfarers.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
Students will be introduced to the basic principles of constructing functional vessels using the wheel and understanding the tactile nature of clay as an art medium. This course will teach students the process of wheel throwing through learning how to wedge clay, how to construct cylinders on the wheel, and using colorants through glazing techniques. 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.
*Supplies are included.
Section A: Mondays, April 11th – May 16th (6 Sessions)
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Section B: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Section C: Tuesdays, April 12th – May 17th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Section D: Wednesdays, April 13th – May 18th (6 Sessions)
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of "Everything was designed to make us sound": Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
Chicago-based ensemble a•pe•ri•od•ic specializes in notated, acoustic, experimental music. Led by Northwestern alumna Nomi Epstein, the ensemble has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by such composers as Michael Pisaro, Catherine Lamb, Eva-Maria Houben, Jürg Frey, and Pauline Oliveros. a•pe•ri•od•ic has released two albums—more or less in 2014, and for a•pe•ri•od•ic in 2019—on the New Focus Recordings label. Their performance features music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger, Nomi Epstein, and more.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger, Nomi Epstein et al.
Wed. 5/18 | 7:30pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
luncheon: Critical Theory and CLS student lunch with Cecilia Sjöholm
Thurs. 5/19 | 12pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room)
lecture: Prof. Sjöholm with response by Prof. Anna Parkinson
Thurs. 5/19 | 5pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
workshop: presentations by Andrea Bohlman, Brigid Cohen, Susannah Gottlieb,
Jonas Roenbrück, and Ben Steege with PhD student responses
Fri. 5/20 | 9am-5pm | Jean Gimble Lane Reception Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Steven Cohen
Kay Kim, piano
Todd Cochran, Soul-Bird
James Lee III, Ad Anah?
Quincy C. Hilliard, Coty
Shawn E. Okpebholo, Circleplay
Valerie Coleman, Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano
Jeff Scott, Toccata for Clarinet and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities and the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program will host a one-day conference dedicated to engaging the Northwestern and Chicagoland communities in the rich, multidisciplinary research and scholarship of our field.
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Historian/physician Jeremy Greene will deliver the keynote presentation "The Ends of Epidemics: Temporality, Disease and the Uses of History." Additionally, an exciting lineup of panel discussions--centered around this year's theme: time--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.
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For updated details and a link to register, please visit:
https://bioethics.northwestern.edu/conference/
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger, Nomi Epstein et al.
Wed. 5/18 | 7:30pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
luncheon: Critical Theory and CLS student lunch with Cecilia Sjöholm
Thurs. 5/19 | 12pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room)
lecture: Prof. Sjöholm with response by Prof. Anna Parkinson
Thurs. 5/19 | 5pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
workshop: presentations by Andrea Bohlman, Brigid Cohen, Susannah Gottlieb,
Jonas Roenbrück, and Ben Steege with PhD student responses
Fri. 5/20 | 9am-5pm | Jean Gimble Lane Reception Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, Evanston
Join us for a talk with Justin Notestein (Chemical Engineering) and Ana Kuzmanic (School of Communication).
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
As the University continues its transition from Box to Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Northwestern students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend this live training webinar led by the Microsoft Store Team featuring SharePoint.
This course expands on more advanced features of SharePoint Online, focused on Site Ownership and Architecture. Attendees of this course can expect to learn about sharing and permissions, workflow management, content types, and various site architecture components for building effective team sites.
You will learn how to:
- Understand SharePoint Online team sites, communication sites, and hub sites
- Plan a successful site by understanding functionality and best practices
- Customize the look of a SharePoint site
- Build a site and utilize web parts
- Set approvals for documents
- Analyze usage data for a site
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Have an itch to be creative? Overwhelmed with the passion to make? This class is for you. Intro to Sculpture is a Ceramics Course dedicated to teaching students classic handbuilding techniques to sculpt whatever their mind desires. Whether it’s a mug, plate, or even a hyper-realistic squirrel caricature, this class will help you achieve your wildest sculptural dreams. Students will be learning basic and intermediate handbuilding skills, including but not limited to, Kurinuki, Slab Building, Coiling, and Solid building. Using these along with sgraffito, inlay, and Mishima techniques, demonstrations will be given to show you how to transform the surface of your creations with your own designs. Come join us for an afternoon filled with adventure, creativity, and fun.
*Supplies are included.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Part of "Everything was designed to make us sound": Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Cecilia Sjöjholm holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stockholm University and a PhD in Philosophy from Radboud University, Holland. Her books include Doing Aesthetics with Arendt: How to See Things (Columbia University Press, 2015), Kristeva and the Political (Routledge, 2005), and The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire (Stanford University Press, 2004). Anna Parkinson is associate professor of German at Northwestern University. Her first book, An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2015), explores theories of affect and emotion in the postwar German context. Her teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st- century German literature and film, psychoanalytic and critical theory, gender and queer theory, affect theory and the history of emotions, literary theory, translation theory, genocide studies, urban studies, and transnational trauma studies.
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Part of "Everything was designed to make us sound": Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Cecilia Sjöjholm holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stockholm University and a PhD in Philosophy from Radboud University, Holland. Her books include Doing Aesthetics with Arendt: How to See Things (Columbia University Press, 2015), Kristeva and the Political (Routledge, 2005), and The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire (Stanford University Press, 2004). Anna Parkinson is associate professor of German at Northwestern University. Her first book, An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2015), explores theories of affect and emotion in the postwar German context. Her teaching and research interests include 20th and 21st- century German literature and film, psychoanalytic and critical theory, gender and queer theory, affect theory and the history of emotions, literary theory, translation theory, genocide studies, urban studies, and transnational trauma studies.
Tickets are not required for this event.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, No Location
Title TBA.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
In this course, students will learn to perfect their ceramic techniques through intermediate and advanced tips and tricks. Students will learn how to throw a range of functional work and explore ways of decorating and glazing. Students will be expected to address their work creatively- in hopes to create and sustain a ceramic practice and portfolio. The goal of this course is to bring confidence to budding ceramic artists through strengthening throwing skills and finding community within the studio.
*Prerequisites: have taken a beginner’s wheel throwing class
** Supplies are included
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Randall Hawes, and Christopher Davis
Yoko Yamada, piano
Claude Debussy, Deux romances, L. 79
Carlos Salzedo, Pièce Concertante pour Trombone et Piano, Op. 27
Philippe Gaubert, Morceau symphonique
Gabriel Fauré, 3 Songs, Op. 23
Nino Rota, Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Everything was Designed to Make Us Sound: Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
concert: a.pe.ri.od.ic with music by Yoko Ono, Antoine Beuger, Nomi Epstein et al.
Wed. 5/18 | 7:30pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
luncheon: Critical Theory and CLS student lunch with Cecilia Sjöholm
Thurs. 5/19 | 12pm | Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room)
lecture: Prof. Sjöholm with response by Prof. Anna Parkinson
Thurs. 5/19 | 5pm | McClintock Choral Rehearsal Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
workshop: presentations by Andrea Bohlman, Brigid Cohen, Susannah Gottlieb,
Jonas Roenbrück, and Ben Steege with PhD student responses
Fri. 5/20 | 9am-5pm | Jean Gimble Lane Reception Room (Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, 70 Arts Circle Dr.)
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Part of "Everything was designed to make us sound": Hannah Arendt and Aesthetic Judgement
Presentations by Andrea Bohlman (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Brigid Cohen (New York University), Susannah Gottlieb (Northwestern University), Jonas Ronebrück (Northwestern University), and Ben Steege (Columbia University) with PhD student responses, followed by a reception.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, No Location
The Center for Applied Health Research on Aging (CAHRA) and the Northwestern Pepper Center are pleased to present Pepper Center Rounds. Pepper Center Rounds are a venue to showcase high-quality research from scholars across the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers network. Please, join us!
“Developing an EHR-based frailty index using machine learning approaches”
Guest:
Mamoun Mardini, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
College of Medicine
University of Florida
Mamoun Mardini, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Florida (UF). He is a trained computer scientist and an engineer with research expertise in applied artificial intelligence and wearable technology in healthcare. He is a member of the Data Science and Applied Technology Core in the University of Florida (UF) Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). Dr. Mardini is currently involved in interdisciplinary projects that combine biomedical science, artificial intelligence, and wearable technology. He received a scholarship from the National Institute on Aging OAIC to develop an Electronic Health Records-based frailty index using machine learning approaches. He also received a seed funding from UF Informatics Institute to develop a smartwatch application to detect face touching and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Additionally, he plays an essential role in the development of the ROAMM framework (Real-time Online Assessment and Mobility Monitor), which leverages wearable technology for continuous and long-term monitoring to capture information surrounding intervening health events (IHE) such as fall. Finally, Dr. Mardini has utilized his artificial intelligence expertise to analyze various medical datasets concerning hospital readmission, physical activity recognition, heart transplant, chest pain, sarcoidosis, sepsis, and COVID-19.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Victor Goines
Peter Hoerenz, piano; Jesse Lear, acoustic bass; Darsan Swaroop Bellie, drums; Joseph Nedder, trombone; Sean Deegan, tenor saxophone
Albert Kuo, Brussel Sprouts
Sidney Bechet (arr. Albert Kuo), Si tu vois ma mère
Albert Kuo, Boom and Bam
Albert Kuo, The Spirit Within
Various composers, Medley of Folk Songs
1. “Akatonbo” by Kosaku Yamada
2. “Tsubasa Wo Kudasai” by Kunihiko Murai
3. “Arirang” by unknown
Johnny Hodges (arr. Albert Kuo), Back Beat
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Alan Pierson and Andrew Ritchie, conductors
Julius Eastman, Stay On It
Konstantinos Baras, Trauma (world premiere)
Salvatore Sciarrino, Le voci sottovetro
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Part of the 2022 Keyboard Conversations series.
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
Visually inspired musical masterpieces. Rachmaninoff’s festive and passionate Études-tableaux, Debussy’s visionary Préludes, Liszt’s Au bord d’une source (By the Water), and Il penseroso, inspired by Michelangelo's statue.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Alvin Santner, guitar; Hamed Barbarji and Greg Papaefthymiou, trumpet; Brian Entwistle, trombone; Wiatt Cariveau, tuba; Kay Kim, piano
Ben E. King/Cyrille Aimée (arr. Momoko Hasselbring Seko), “Stand By Me”
Various artists, Three Songs for Guitar and Horn
W. A. Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 417
Ryne Siesky, Broadstreet
Aaron Houston, We’re All a Little Mad Here
Spencer Arias, Wind, Waves and Web
Julian Lage (arr. Momo Seko), Steady Proof
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
We invite you to attend, Queer Baby Art, an art fair co-organized by Multicultural Student Affairs and the Brown Baby Art Collective. This event features a lineup of vendors made up of LGBTQ+ Chicagoland artists and creatives whose practices showcase art as a living enterprise of sustainability.
Big thanks to our co-sponsors: Sustain NU and One Book Northwestern
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Robert Morgan
Vaynu Kadiyali, flute; Tim Fu, clarinet; Jason Huang, bassoon; Sylvia Denecke, horn
Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasie No. 1 in A Minor from 12 Fantasias for Flute without Bass, TWV 40:2
Eugène Bozza, Fantaisie pastoral, Op. 37
Robert Schumann (arr. Humbert Lucarelli), Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op. 43
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Karen Brunssen
Teresa Kang, piano
Jake Heggie, Iconic Legacies: First Ladies at the Smithsonian
Alma Mahler, selections from Fünf Lieder
B. E. Boykin, selections from Moments in Sonder
Camille Saint-Saëns, “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” from Samson et Dalila
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Caleb Wong, cello
Alejandro Viñao, Khan Variations
Franco Donatoni, mvmt. I from Omar
Étienne Perruchon, Cinq danses dogoriennes
Aurél Holló, Cricket Tala
Tomasz Golinski, mvmt. II from Luminosity
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Helen Callus
Qianshan Yun, piano
J. S. Bach, Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
Georges Enesco, Concert Piece for Viola and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
4:45 PM - 6:45 PM, Online
Featuring the studio of Patrice Michaels: CC Barfield, Alexa Bartschat, Sabrina Chen, Daphne Meng, Audrey Neace, Carly Passer, Olivia Pearce, Andrew Pulver, Antonio Ruiz-Nokes, and Skye Tarshis
With collaborative pianists Shuyi Guan, Jason Carlson, and Luca Moretti
This webinar-style presentation is a sampling of the year’s work in the voice studio. Each singer will introduce two selections from their repertoire, recorded from the Bienen School of Music. Conversation to follow.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Steven Cohen and Mark Nuccio
Kay Kim, piano
Joseph Horovitz, Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
Olivier Messiaen, III. Abîme des oiseaux from Quatour pour la fin du temps
Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy
Yoko Yamada, piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba
Alexei Lebedev, Concerto in One Movement
David Biedenbender, Liquid Architecture
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Henoch
Carl Nielsen, Two Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano, Op. 2
Georg Philipp Telemann, Oboe Sonata in A Minor, TWV 41:a3
Alyssa Morris, Four Personalities for oboe and piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Weijing Wang
Andrew Rosenblum, piano
Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4
J. S. Bach (trans. Simon Rowland-Jones), Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
Fritz Kreisler (trans. Giuseppe Pascucci), Praeludium und Allegro
Tickets are not required for this event.
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.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Please note that all IPR colloquia this spring will be held simultaneously in person and online. Registration is only required for the online talks. IPR will be following local, state, federal, and University guidelines for events. Masking is optional, but encouraged.
"Identifying Drivers of Health Inequality in the United States"
by Greg Miller, Louis W. Menk Professor of Psychology, Co-Director of the Foundations of Health Research Center (FoHRC), and IPR Fellow; Alexa Freedman and Eric Finegood, IPR and (FoHRC) Postdoctoral Fellows
This is a presentation of research in progress, and the event is part of the spring 2022 IPR Fay Lomax Cook Colloquium Series.
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
About this event:
Build your Canvas course with confidence! This workshop provides an overview of the basic features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas to allow you to build and support engaging courses.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Anne Waller
Mauro Giuliani, Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op. 107
Mauro Giuliani, La Rose
Francisco Tárrega, Capricho árabe
Francisco Tárrega, Lágrima
Francisco Tárrega, Adelita
Francisco Tárrega, Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Seymour Simons (arr. Roland Dyens), “All of Me”
Edith Piaf (arr. Roland Dyens), “L’hymne à l’amour”
Harold Arlen (arr. Toru Takemitsu), “Over the Rainbow”
Isaac Albéniz (trans. Andrés Segovia), Asturias
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of David Bilger
Jordan Dinkins, horn; Ethan Adams, Aaron Dubois, Rob Keller, and Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Alex Mullens and Nick Mihalich, trombone
Manuel de Falla, Seven Spanish Folk Songs
Vassily Brandt, Concertpiece No. 2
Rafael Mendez, The Tre-Mendez Polka
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, Concerto for Trumpet
Oskar Bohme, Sextet for Brass
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
"A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America"
Laura Leibman, Professor of English & Humanities, Reed College
This lecture will be presented in-person.
A video will be available on our website the week after.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Marguerite Lynn Williams, Melody Cribbs, Atti Liu, Natalie Man, Amy Shlyak, Emily Stone, and Ksenia Sushkevich, harp
Solo, ensemble, and chamber performances featuring the Bienen School harp studio and faculty lecturer Marguerite Lynn Williams, principal harpist of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra.
Solo Repertoire:
Jean-Michel Damase, Sicilienne variée
Marcel Grandjany, Dans la forêt du charme et de l’enchantement, Op. 11
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Nokturne
Franz List (ed. Renie), Le rossignol
Giovanni Battista Pescetti (trans. Marguerite Lynn Williams), Sonata No. 6 in C Minor
Germaine Tailleferre, Sonate pour harpe
Marcel Tournier, Étude de concert (“Au matin”)
Harp Ensemble Repertoire:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Marguerite Lynn Williams), Waltz No. 9, Op. 40
Jacques Offenbach (arr. Erb), Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann
Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, Llano
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Matt Dardick, saxophone; Nathan Canfield and Jacob Nance, piano
Tyson Gholston Davis, Tableau IX
Henri Tomasi, Ballade
Oswald Huỳnh, (miss)remember
Alfred Desenclos, Prélude, Cadence, et Finale
Jacob Nance, On the Reality of Letting Go
Edison Denisov, Sonata
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Yuan-Qing Yu
Liang-yu Wang, piano
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, 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.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Steven Cohen
Jessie Montgomery, Peace
Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120
Marin Marais (arr. Zachary Good), “Le badinage” from Suite d’un goût étranger
Zachary Good, Paco’s One Hundred Years
François Couperin (arr. Zachary Good), selections from L’art de toucher le clavecin
Louis Couperin (arr. Zachary Good), Harpsichord Préludes in E Minor and G Minor
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of José Ramón Méndez
Johannes Brahms, Drei Intermezzi, Op. 117
Alexander Scriabin, Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19 (“Sonata-Fantasy”)
Muzio Clementi, Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 40, No. 2
Enrique Granados, I. Los requiebros from Goyescas
Henri Dutilleux, III. Choral et variations from Piano Sonata
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Taimur Sullivan
Nathanael Canfield, piano
Jérôme Savari, Fantaisie sur des motifs du Freischütz
Henri Tomasi, Ballade
Roger Boutry, Divertimento
Evan Chambers, Deep Flowers
Takashi Yoshimatsu, Fuzzy Bird Sonata
Tickets are not required for this event.
All day, 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 $300,000 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 25 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.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
This virtual session will allow instructors to get hands-on experience using Zoom. An overview of Zoom, its features, and its Canvas integration will be provided. Attendees will then be able to offer additional questions and try out various features while in the session.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Blair Milton
Nathanael Canfield, piano
Irene Britton Smith, Sonata for Violin and Piano
Jessie Montgomery, Rhapsody No. 2 for Solo Violin
Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Coordinator of Keyboard Skills and Non-Major Piano at the Bienen School, Karen Kan-Walsh received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan School of Music. Her interests include piano technique and the music of J. S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin, and Brahms, and her recent performances have focused on two-piano literature. She is joined by her colleague Julian Kwok, a collaborative pianist with extensive experience as a vocal coach and piano soloist. His career highlights as a collaborative artist have included performances at the International Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Humanities Festival of Chicago at Orchestra Hall, and Italy’s Teatro Rossini Pesaro.
W. A. Mozart, Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448
Maurice Ravel, La valse for two pianos
Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn (“Saint Anthony Variations”), Op. 56b
Witold Lutosławski, Variations on a Theme by Paganini for two pianos
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Steven Cohen and Mark Nuccio
Sophia Jean, flute; Kelley Osterberg, oboe; Matthew Melillo, bassoon; Jared Sanders, horn; Yoko Yamada, piano
Adolphus Hailstork, Three Smiles for Tracey
Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen, Romanze
György Ligeti, Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 120
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Evanston
The Northwestern Sustainability Lecture Series is a 1-day summit at Northwestern University wherein world-renowned experts discuss “Earth-Human Interactions: Sustainability and Development.” In this event, six Northwestern Sustainability Lecturers are selected to talk about critical challenges and advances related to energy, climate and the environment, and urban transformations, as well as to be recognized for their prominent contributions in these fields.
Since the event will also be streamed online, it will be accessible to those of you who might not be able to attend in person. Registration is free of charge and required to attend the event. Please feel free to distribute this to colleagues and students who may be interested in attending.
Speakers include:
Lynn Loo (Princeton, GMCD)
Lyesse Laloui (EPFL)
Pamela Matson (Stanford)
Mary K Firestone (U.C. Berkeley)
Carlo Ratti (MIT)
Jan Carmeliet (ETHZ)
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
John Franklin MD, MSc, MA
Professor of Psychiatry, Transplant Surgery, Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Student Support
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Critical Race Theory and Medicine: Upfront and Personal
Critical race theory (CRT) has academic roots in the 1970’s. Tenets of CRT include race as a social construct and emphasis on structural analyses of racial inequities. Narration is seminal to the CRT approach. Similarly, focus has recently turned to policy, institutions and social forces as causes for racial disparities in heath and medicine. In this talk I will narrate one families’ journey in medicine to illustrate the usefulness of CRT.
This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.
**PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK**
REGISTER HERE
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Learn about applying for a Fulbright fellowship to teach English abroad
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
This workshop will prepare instructors to create quizzes and exams in Canvas. Participants will learn about question types, question banks, quiz settings including time limits, and grading functions.
Participants in this workshop should already be familiar with the features and functionality of Canvas by completing the Introduction to Canvas workshop.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
For more information, please login to Handshake.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Andrew Ritchie, graduate assistant conductor; Marisa Sardo, guitar
Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36
Béla Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances (Román népi táncok), BB 76
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
Four struggling bohemians find their lives forever changed when, one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, a girl named Mimì knocks on their door asking for a candle light. She and poet Rodolfo fall in love, but the happy couple soon awaken to the harsh realities of life: Mimì is gravely ill, and Rodolfo finds himself unable to provide for her. Puccini’s timeless opera celebrates life and love in the face of insurmountable odds.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of David Bilger
Jordan Dinkins, horn; Thomas Hubel, trumpet; Nick Mihalich, trombone; Alex Mullins, bass trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano
Jean Françaix, Sonatine
Théo Charlier, Solo de concours
Camille Saint-Saëns (arr. Henri Busser), Fantaisie en mi bémol
Claude Debussy (arr. Ethan Adams), Deux arabesques
Georges Demeure, Concertino
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Alex Chao, Drew McComas, Philip Drembus, and Kevin Chen, marimba; Finley Lau, piano
Javier Alvarez, Temazcal
Aurél Holló, Cricket Tala
Tim Ferchen, selections from Three Pieces for Vibraphone and Piano
Peter Klatzow, Dances of Earth and Fire
Bob Becker, Whispering Medley
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
Four struggling bohemians find their lives forever changed when, one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, a girl named Mimì knocks on their door asking for a candle light. She and poet Rodolfo fall in love, but the happy couple soon awaken to the harsh realities of life: Mimì is gravely ill, and Rodolfo finds himself unable to provide for her. Puccini’s timeless opera celebrates life and love in the face of insurmountable odds.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Taimur Sullivan, director
The Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble presents a concert of new works that highlight the richness and excitement of the saxophone. The program features world premieres of compositions by Steven Banks and Stacy Garrop, a regional premiere by Augusta Read Thomas, and a new arrangement by Northwestern composition faculty member Hans Thomalla. The concert will also showcase the talents of two Northwestern saxophone quartets, Conflux and Masso.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Christopher P. Davis, director
Music written and arranged for trombones.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Blair Milton
Nathan Canfield, piano
Antonín Dvořák, Romance in F Minor, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24
Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Jackson Brown, clarinet; Amanda Beaune, violin
Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds A
Martin Matalon, mvmts. 1 and 4 from Short Stories
yasuo sueyoshi, Mirage pour marimba
Kevin Puts, And Legions Will Rise
David Maric, A Greek Tragedy
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy
Jackson Brown, clarinet; Yoko Yamada and Aldeb Perera, piano; Philip Drembus, percussion
Folke Rabe, Basta
Eric Ewazen, Sonata for Trombone and Piano
Jacques Casterede, Concertino for Trumpet, Trombone, and Piano
Carl Maria von Weber, Romance for Trombone and Piano
Stephen Sondheim (arr. Jinsei Goto), “Send in the Clowns”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Karen Brunssen
Charles Foster, piano; Surin Cho, cello
Julia Perry, Stabat Mater
Gustav Mahler, selections from Rückert-Lieder
Nadia Boulanger, “J’ai frappé”
Jennifer Higdon, “Lilacs”
Sergei Taneyev, “The people are sleeping”
William Bolcom, selections from Cabaret Songs
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of José Ramón Méndez
Witold Lutosławski, Piano Sonata
Ottorino Respighi, III. Notturno, V. Studio, and VI. Intermezzo-Serenata from Six Pieces for Piano, P 044
Nikolai Medtner, Zwei Märchen, Op. 20
György Ligeti, Étude No. 13: L’escalier du diable
Nikolai Kapustin, Jazz Preludes
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of José Ramón Méndez
J.S. Bach, Toccatan in G Minor, BMV 915
Dorothy Rudd Moore, A Little Whimsy
Lena Johnson McLin, A Summer Day
Margaret Bonds, Troubled Water
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Six moments musicaux, Op. 16
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Rachel Côté, Sylvia Denecke, and Scott Sanders, horn; Kay Kim, piano
Marin Marais, V. Le Basque from Five Ancient French Dances
Camille Saint-Saëns, Romance, Op. 67
W. A. Mozart (arr. Michael Holtzel), Der Hölle Rache, KV 620
Jean Françaix, Canon in Octave
Franz Strauss, Nocturno, Op. 7
Fritz Kreisler, Schön Rosmarin
Jean Françaix, Adagio from Notturno e Divertimento
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Notturno
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
Four struggling bohemians find their lives forever changed when, one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, a girl named Mimì knocks on their door asking for a candle light. She and poet Rodolfo fall in love, but the happy couple soon awaken to the harsh realities of life: Mimì is gravely ill, and Rodolfo finds himself unable to provide for her. Puccini’s timeless opera celebrates life and love in the face of insurmountable odds.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Kay Kim, piano
Dana Wilson, Musings
Karen Tanaka, Enchanted Forest
Johannes Brahms, Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Ashlee Allaire, John Dawson, Hampton Douglas, and Drew McComas, percussion; Ethan Siau, drum set
Bob Becker, Mudra
Bruce Hamilton, Interzones
Kevin Volans, She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket
Andrew Thomas, Merlin
Bob Becker, Girlfriend’s Medley
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Christopher Davis, and Randall Hawes
Yoko Yamada, piano
Georg Philipp Telemann (arr. Ralph Sauer), Fantasia No. 1 in A Major, TWV 40:2
Axel Jørgensen, Romance, Op. 21
Eugène Bozza, Ballade, Op. 62
Paul Hindemith, Sonata für Posaune und Klavier
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Sylvia Wang
Jiarui Yu, piano
Fanny Mendelssohn, Vier Lieder fur das Pianoforte, Op. 8
Clara Schumann, Nocturne, Op. 6, No. 2
Cécile Chaminade, Thème varié, Op. 89
Amy Beach, Ballade, Op. 6
Florence Price, II. Andante from Sonata in E Minor
Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Desirée Ruhstrat
Lyudmila Lakisova, piano
J. S. Bach, V. Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Alexander Glazunov, Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82
Florence Price, Adoration
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of David Bilger, Thomas Rolfs, and Michael Sachs
Bethany Vaughan, trumpet; Yoko Yamada, piano
J. S. Bach (trans. Allen Chen), Concerto in D Major after Vivaldi Violin Concerto, RV 230, BWV 972
George Gershwin (arr. Quincy Erickson), Three Preludes
Philippe Gaubert, Cantabile et Scherzetto
Aaron Dubois, Runningwater
Kevin McKee, Under Western Skies
Tickets are not required for this event.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Joachim Schamberger, director; Patrick Furrer, conductor; Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
Four struggling bohemians find their lives forever changed when, one bitterly cold Christmas Eve, a girl named Mimì knocks on their door asking for a candle light. She and poet Rodolfo fall in love, but the happy couple soon awaken to the harsh realities of life: Mimì is gravely ill, and Rodolfo finds himself unable to provide for her. Puccini’s timeless opera celebrates life and love in the face of insurmountable odds.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Henoch
Kay Kim, piano
Richard Strauss, Concerto in D Major for Oboe and Small Orchestra, TrV 292
J. S. Bach, Cantata “Ich habe genug,” BWV 82
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Mike Perdue, Meta-Marimba
François Narboni, Melancolia
Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds B
J. S. Bach, Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Blair Milton
Chelsea Wang, piano
Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gene Pokorny and Matthew Gaunt
Yoko Yamada, piano
Anthony Plog, Three Miniatures for tuba and piano
Claude Debussy (arr. Justin Binkman), Syrinx for solo tuba
John Williams, I. Allegro moderato from Tuba Concerto
Anna Baadsvik, New Kid
Gordon Jacob, Tuba Suite
Tickets are not required for this event.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Jason Baker, From the Manor to the Heights
Joseph Pereira, Tarol
Nicolas Martynciow, mvmt. I from Impressions
Bruce Hamilton, Interzones
Nathaniel Heyder, Freestyle
Steven Stucky, Isabelle Dances
I. Bounce
IV. Stomp
Ancel Neeley, Blossom
Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds
B.
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
Jason Carlson, piano
Richard Strauss, “Kling” from Fünf Lieder, Op. 48, No. 3
Joseph Marx, “Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht”
Claude Debussy, Quatre chansons de jeunesse
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, “The Hours Creep On Apace” from HMS Pinafore
Alma Mahler, II. “In meines Vaters Garten” from Fünf Lieder
Gabriel Fauré, IV. “Les roses d’Ispahan” from 4 Songs, Op. 39
Maude Valérie White, “So We’ll Go No More a-Roving"
Giuseppe Verdi, II. “La zingara” from 6 Romanze
Lee Hoiby, II. “Goodby, Goodby World” from Three Women, Op. 47
Johann Strauss II, “Frühlingsstimmen”
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Andrew Thomas, Merlin
Shin-ichiro Ikebe, Monovalence I
Franco Donatoni, Omar
Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds B
Vinko Globokar, Toucher
Tickets are not required for this event.
All day, No Location
(for students participating in Pre-Pay)
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Hiroya Miura, Chromatograph
José Manuel López López, Cálculo secreto for vibraphone
Minas Borboudakis, Evlogitària
Bruno Mantovani, Moi, jeu...
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of James Giles
Frédéric Chopin, selections from Études, Op. 10
Frédéric Chopin, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35
John Lennon and Paul McCartney (arr. Hiromi Uehara, trans. Cornelius Tsen), “Blackbird”
Hiromi Uehara (arr. Daniel Che), Deep Into the Night
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
Shichao Zhang, piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge
Robert Schumann, selections from Liederkreis, Op. 39
W. A. Mozart, “Dalla sua pace” from Don Giovanni
Henri Duparc, “L’invitation au voyage”
Kurt Weill, “Lonely House” from Street Scene
William Grant Still, “Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass”
Betty Jackson King, “Theology” from A Set of Three Dunbar Poems
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
Learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas Prerequisite: Intro to Canvas Workshop.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas.
Participants in this workshop should already be familiar with the features and functionality of Canvas by completing the Introduction to Canvas workshop.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
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.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Chicago
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program
Presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Rebecca DeBoer
Topic TBA
The Montgomery Lectures Series is presented weekly on Thursdays from noon to 12:45pm, and is open to all. Presenters are faculty in the Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program, Center for Bioethics & Medical Humanities members, and special guests. This series was named in 2013 for Emeritus Professor Kathryn Montgomery.
This lecture will be held in person for Northwestern students, faculty, and staff—in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior). Chicago Campus. For those outside the Northwestern community and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, the Zoom option will continue to be available.
**PLEASE REGISTER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK**
REGISTER HERE
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Elaina Palada, flute; Malaysia Billman, oboe; Nathan Vilhena Kock, clarinet; Micah Cortezzo, bassoon; Kay Kim, piano
Reinhold Glière, Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 91
Vitaly Buyanovsky, III. España from Four Improvisations
Samuel Barber, Summer Music, Op. 31
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Jeremy Kahn
Albert Kuo, alto saxophone; Abram Collier, baritone saxophone; Mikey Ahearn, trumpet; Joe Nedder, trombone; Darsan Swaroop Bellie, drums; Jesse Lear, bass
Glenn Zaleski (arr. Peter Hoerenz), Backstep
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Peter Hoerenz), “Lucky to Be Me”
Peter Hoerenz, Abstractions
Pee Wee King (arr. Peter Hoerenz), “The Tennessee Waltz”
Miles Davis (arr. Peter Hoerenz), Solar
Peter Hoerenz, La Source
Peter Hoerenz, The Slow-Roller
Peter Hoerenz, Ponder
Peter Hoerenz, Find the Way
Peter Hoerenz, Beyond the Realm
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of José Ramón Méndez
Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Claude Debussy, Estampes, L. 108 (100)
Isaac Albéniz, Iberia, Book II
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Jennifer Huang, conductor
Enjoy two masterworks for string chamber ensemble, featuring members of the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra.
Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Jennifer Huang, conductor
Enjoy two masterworks for string chamber ensemble, featuring members of the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48
Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Andrew Raciti
Xavier Foley, Étude No. 3, “Lament”
J. S. Bach, Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D Major, BWV 1028
Amy Beach (trans. Alexander Verster), Romance, Op. 23
Alfred Desenclos, Aria et Rondo
Tickets are not required for this event.
All day, No Location
Request an emergency loan by this date.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
A lunchtime gathering for faculty and postdoctoral fellows in the Humanities who are planning to write individual grant proposals. In this workshop, we'll review and discuss how to write a successful application with a group of Northwestern faculty who have won and/or reviewed national grants.
Conversation will be led by Tracy Davis (Departments of Theatre, English, and Performance Studies), Dyan Elliott (History), and Mark Hauser (Anthropology).
Ample time is planned for Q&A and sample grant proposals will be pre-circulated.
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP to Tom Burke 847-491-7946 (thomas.burke@northwestern.edu).
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Michael Mulcahy, Randall Hawes, Christopher Davis, and Douglas Wright
Will Fowler, trombone; Yoko Yamada, piano
J. S. Bach, Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Steve Norrell), “King René’s Arioso” from Iolanta
Charles Small, Conversation for Tenor and Bass Trombone
David Gillingham, Sonata for Bass Trombone
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of She-e Wu
Blake Parker, vibraphone; Claire McLean, David Cho, Kevin Chen, and Blake Parker, marimba; Drew McComas, drumset
David Skidmore, Goodnight Noises Everywhere
Gordon Stout, Sedimental Structures
Florence Price (arr. Blake Parker), “Lake Mirror” from Snapshots
Christopher Deane, Mourning Dove Sonnet
Kevin Volans, Asanga
Bob Becker, Bye Bye Medley
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Shawn Vondran, conductor
2022 marks the 85th anniversary of Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, widely considered a cornerstone of the wind band repertoire. The Symphonic Band’s June performance of the work is a celebration of these two factors. The composition is a set of six movements, each developing a folk song Grainger collected on Edison wax cylinders while exploring various regions of England. Viet Cuong’s new work for chamber ensemble was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s 1954 work Bull, a series of ten lithographs. The composer explains, “The first lithograph is a fully formed bull that, over its next two iterations, increases in opacity and detail. Then, over the next eight panels, layers are gradually peeled away to reveal just the essence of the bull.”
Percy Grainger (ed. Fennell), Lincolnshire Posy
Viet Cuong, Bull’s Eye
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
A.J. Keller, conductor; Victoria Marshall and Tim Lambert, graduate assistant conductors
Northwestern University Singers and University Chorale present their first-ever collaborative concert—a meditation on the experience of finitude within the temporal landscape and the fleeting nature of Being. Repertoire will include works by Caroline Shaw, David Lang, Judith Bingham, Heinrich Schütz, C. V. Stanford, and Per Nørgård.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Michael Henoch
Keliang Li, bassoon; Jiwon Chun, piano
Charles Colin, Third Solo de Concert
Gary Nash, selections from Nine New York City Miniatures
Émile Paladilhe, Solo pour hautbois
André Previn, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Helen Callus
Nathan Canfield, piano
Paul Rougnon, Fantaisie de concert
Paul Rougnon, Allegro appassionato
Paul Rougnon, Concertino romantique, Op. 138
Henri Büsser, Allegro appassionato
Gabriel Grovlez, Romance, Scherzo and Finale
Hélène Fleury, Fantaisie for Viola and Piano, Op. 18
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Gail Williams and Jonathan Boen
Eli Pandolfi, horn; Kay Kim, piano
Kurt Atterberg, Concerto in A Minor, Op. 28
Gioacchino Rossini, Prelude, Theme, and Variations
Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Sonata X in G Major for Two Cellos
Reinhold Glière, Waltz, Op. 45, No. 2
Richard Strauss, “Zueignung,” Op. 10, No. 1
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Steven Cohen and Mark Nuccio
Elaina Palada, conductor; Kirsten Lee and Lina Jeong, violin; Isaac Henry, viola; Eric Powers, cello; Alex Carroll, bass; Drew McComas, percussion and keyboard; Nathan Canfield, piano; Oliver Paddock, engineer
Samuel Perlman, Complication
Aaron Copland (trans. Samuel Perlman), Clarinet Concerto
Libby Larsen, Dancing Solo
Claude Debussy, Première rhapsodie, CD 124
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of James Giles
Claude Debussy, selections from Préludes, Livre 2
Franz Liszt, Transcendental Étude No. 9 in A-flat Major (“Ricordanza”), S. 139
Béla Bartók, Suite for Piano, Op. 14, Sz. 62, BB 70
Franz Schubert, 3 Klavierstücke, D. 946
Alberto Ginastera, Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2
Chao Zhang, Pi Huang—Moments in Beijing Opera
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of W. Stephen Smith
Karina Kontorovitch, piano
Gerald Finzi, Before and After Summer, Op. 16
Johannes Brahms, Sommerabend, Op. 85, No. 2
Johannes Brahms, Mondenschein, Op. 85, No. 2
Carlos Guastavino, “Se equivocó la paloma”
Carlos Guastavino, “La rosa y el sauce”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Seven Romances, Op. 47
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Steven Cohen and Mark Nuccio
Elaina Palada, flute; Malaysia Billman, oboe; Micah Cortezzo, bassoon; Austin Ruff, horn
Olivier Messiaen, III. Abîme des oiseaux from Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, FP 184
Roberto Sierra, Cinco Bocetos
Samuel Barber, Summer Music for wind quintet, Op. 31
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of José Ramón Méndez
J. S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-flat Major, WTC I BWV 866
W. A. Mozart, Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333
César Franck, Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue, FWV 21
Samuel Barber, Ballade, Op. 46
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Nancy Gustafson
Daniel Szefer, piano
Manuel de Falla, Siete canciones populares españolas
Fernando Obradors, Canciones clásicas españolas
Gioachino Rossini, “Ah! Quel giorno ognor rammento..” from Semiramide
Miguel Marqués, “Lágrimas mías” from El anillo de hierro
Joseph Canteloube, 2. “Bailero” from Chants d’Auvergne
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Philosophy in Music Composition
Student of Jay Alan Yim
Carl Alexander, countertenor; Liza Sobel Crane and Jessie Lyons, soprano; Autumn Selover, harp; Konstantinos Baras and Elliott Lupp, electronics and production; Princess FOMO, Elena Faki, and Semiramis Mamata, dancers
Niki Harlafti, “SKEPTOMENOS” for solo voice (world premiere)
Niki Harlafti, Italian Bean Balls for two sopranos and harp (world premiere)
Niki Harlafti, When I Too Long for (dance film world premiere)
Niki Harlafti (lead composer) and Konstantinos Baras (co-composer), MIGDAL for fixed media (world premiere)
Niki Harlafti (composer) and Elliott Lupp (electronics), “Enduring Freedom” for voice and live electronics (world premiere)
Niki Harlafti, Kintsugi for eleven saxophones (contemporary dance world premiere)
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Victor Yampolsky, conductor
In the final concerts of his 38 years at the Bienen School of Music, Victor Yampolsky conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, closing a season reflecting on the composers that shaped his career. Beloved by audiences and conductors alike, Mahler’s Ninth is often interpreted as his farewell to the world, though it may also be heard as a paean to life’s fleeting joys, and a pondering of eternity. Sweeping in scope, the symphony references Beethoven, Strauss, and Mahler’s own music, concluding with a deeply poignant finale.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Kurt Hansen
Karina Kontorovitch, piano
Franz Schubert, selections from Schwanengesang, D. 957
Maurice Ravel, Deux mélodies hébraïques
Francis Poulenc, 2 Mélodies, FP 162
Francis Poulenc, Hymne, FP 144
Francis Poulenc, Mazurka, FP 145
Henri Duparc, “Phidylé”
Anonymous (arr. Robert de Cormier), “Oy, dortn, dortn ibern vaserl”
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of W. Stephen Smith
Bradyn Debysingh, tenor; Hana Yoon, flute; Charles Foster, piano and harpsichord
George Frideric Handel, “Waft her, angels, through the skies” from Jephtha, HWV 70
George Frideric Handel, selections from Messiah
George Frideric Handel, “Why does the God of Israel sleep?” from Samson, HWV 57
J. S. Bach, “Jesu, lass durch Wohl und Weh” from Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182
J. S. Bach, “Geduld, Geduld!” from Matthäuspassion, BWV 244
J. S. Bach, “Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet” from Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248
Ralph Vaughan Williams, selections from Songs of Travel
Henry Purcell, “In vain the am’rous flute” from Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z. 328
Antonio Vivaldi, “Tecum principium” from Dixit Dominus, RV 807
Henry Purcell, “Sweeter Than Roses” from Pausanius, Z. 585
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Helen Callus
J. S. Bach, Suite No. 6
Henri Vieuxtemps, selections from Viola Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 36
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson, piano
Amy Beach, Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
Hector Berlioz, Les nuits d’été, Op. 7, H. 81b
Ottorino Respighi, Sei Melodie, P. 89
Edward Joseph Collins, selected songs
Franz Schubert, selected songs
Tom Cipullo, “My Darling Jim” from Glory Denied
Tickets are not required for this event.
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Willie Jones III
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, Counterintuition
Darsan Swaroop Bellie and Clay Eshleman, Luscious Exchange
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, And Still
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, Miguel’s Mood
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, Arrival
Kenny Garrett (arr. Darsan Swaroop Bellie), 2 Down & 1 Across
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, Black Holes
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Chris Mercer
Mερχιφυλ Γοδ, Blood ϑεδυσ Χηριστ, Spirit
You
(Today)
THE ΛΟΡΔ'Σ ΠΡΑΨΕΡ
Us
(Later)
BREAKING THE BREAD
[Mερχιφυλ Γοδ, Blood]
Groups
(Perhaps Later)
THE ΓΡEAT THANΚΣΓIςINΓ
Everyone
(Our Ending)
Aμεν
[ϑεδυσ Χηριστ, Spirit]
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Nancy Gustafson
Charles Foster, piano
Francesco Santoliquido, I canti della sera
Alban Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder
Jake Heggie, What I Miss the Most...
Tickets are not required for this event.
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston
Victor Yampolsky, conductor
In the final concerts of his 38 years at the Bienen School of Music, Victor Yampolsky conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, closing a season reflecting on the composers that shaped his career. Beloved by audiences and conductors alike, Mahler’s Ninth is often interpreted as his farewell to the world, though it may also be heard as a paean to life’s fleeting joys, and a pondering of eternity. Sweeping in scope, the symphony references Beethoven, Strauss, and Mahler’s own music, concluding with a deeply poignant finale.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Desirée Ruhstrat
Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19
J. S. Bach, selections from Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Gerardo Ribeiro
Liang-yu Wang, piano; Haddon Kay, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Edvard Grieg, Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45
William Grant Still, Suite for Violin and Piano
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Online
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Build your Canvas course with confidence! This workshop provides an overview of the basic features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas to allow you to build and support engaging courses.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of W. Stephen Smith
Franz Schubert, “Kennst du das Land” from Mignons Gesang, D. 321
Hugo Wolf, “Kennst du das Land” from Goethe-Lieder
Mark Adamo, “Kennst du das Land” from Little Women
J. S. Bach, “Ach, mein Sinn” from Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
Carlisle Floyd, "Sam's Aria" from Susannah
Francis Poulenc, "Hôtel" from Banalités, FP 107
Pauline Viardot, “Fleur desséchée” from Douze mélodies sur les poésies russes, VWV 1018
Ben Moore, Dear Theo
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Nancy Gustafson
Charles Foster, piano
W. A. Mozart, “Exsultate, jubilate” from Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Edvard Grieg, Sechs Lieder, Op. 48
Francis Poulenc, Fiançailles pour rire, FP 101
Richard Strauss, selections from Sechs Lieder, Op. 68
Stephen Schwartz, “Meadowlark” from The Baker’s Wife
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Desirée Ruhstrat
Lyudmila Lakisova, piano
J. S. Bach, selections from Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
W. A. Mozart, Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 21 in E Minor, K. 304
Kimo Williams, Quiet Shadows
Jean Sibelius, I. Allegro moderato from Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson, piano
W. A. Mozart, “Tu virginum corona” from Exsultate jubilate, K. 165
Franz Schubert, “Die junge Nonne,” D. 828
Claude Debussy, Ariettes oubliées, L. 60
Margaret Bonds, Songs of the Seasons
Richard Strauss, Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op. 67
Charles Gounod, “Amour, ranime mon courage” from Roméo et Juliette
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Andrew Raciti
Nathan Canfield, piano
Marin Marais (arr. Austin Lewellen), Pièces de viole
Tyson Davis, Tableau No. 5
Giovanni Bottesini, Fantasia on La sonnambula
Alexander Scriabin (trans. Gregor Piatigorsky, arr. Lucas Drew), Poème, Op. 32, No. 1
Gustav Mahler (arr. Morakot Cherdchoo-ngarm), “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”
Eduard Tubin, Double Bass Concerto
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Robert Hanford
Eva Nicholson, violin; Alexis Chae, viola
J. S. Bach, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001
Zoltán Kodály, Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12
Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78 (“Regensonate”)
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Desirée Ruhstrat
Liang-Yu Wang, piano
J. S. Bach, selections from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane, M. 76
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Lecture-recital with various excerpts and selections from Otakar Ševčík
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Gene Pokorny and Matthew Gaunt
Yoko Yamada, piano
Claude Debussy (trans. Roman Macie), Prologue from Cello Sonata in D Minor, L. 135
Vincent Persichetti, Serenade No. 12, Op. 88
Robert Schumann (arr. Friedrich Grutzmacher), Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of James Giles
Franz Schubert, Sonata in A Major, D. 959
Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Liang-yu Wang, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69
Judith Weir, Unlocked
Antonín Dvořák, I. Allegro from Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of David McGill
Nathan Canfield, piano
Maurice Ravel, selections from Miroirs
Camille Saint-Saëns, Bassoon Sonata in G Major, Op. 168
Alain Bernaud, Hallucinations
Jacques Ibert, Carignane
Paul Jeanjean, Prélude et Scherzo
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson, piano
Francis Poulenc, Tel jour, telle nuit
Florence Price, Five Art Songs
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Yes, the hour has come!” from The Maid of Orleans
George Frideric Handel, “Dopo notte, atra e funesta” from Ariodante
George Frideric Handel, selections from Serse
Jake Heggie, “This Journey” from Dead Man Walking
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
The New York and West Coast Regional Offices of the Northwestern Alumni Association, in collaboration with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, present a special webinar series that examines how the pandemic has exacerbated health disparities and the challenges underrepresented communities face in the wake of COVID-19 entitled The Pandemic Made It Worse.
In the third and final webinar of this series, ISGMH faculty Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, PhD, MSSW, and Brian Mustanski, PhD, will talk about the health disparities that sexual and gender minority communities experience compared to heterosexual and cisgender populations, and how recovery and post-COVID-19 programs can better address the rights, needs, and strengths of these communities.
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, Online
This virtual session will allow instructors to get hands-on experience using Zoom. An overview of Zoom, its features, and its Canvas integration will be provided. Attendees will then be able to offer additional questions and try out various features while in the session.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Online
Ongoing Bible study which includes reading text and exploring theology, spirituality, and meaning of the text for our lives. Previous familiarity with scripture is not necessary. Current group consists of adults. Explorers is open to all. email Mary for the link
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley, who received her docyorate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Shel Catholic Center
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Blair Milton
Nathanael Canfield, piano
Gabriel Fauré, Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. E. Zimbalist), The Golden Cockerel Fantasy
Richard Strauss, Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18
Amy Beach, Romance, Op. 23
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Teresa Kang, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Pauline’s Aria” from The Queen of Spades
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, VI. “No, only the one who knew” from Six Romances, Op. 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (trans. Levi Mei), III. “Why did I dream of you?” from Six Romances, Op. 6
Sergei Rachmaninoff, VII. “To the children” from 15 Romances, Op. 26
Ambroise Thomas, “Me voici dans son boudoir” from Mignon
Gabriel Fauré, III. “Le secret” from 3 Songs, Op. 23
Jules Massenet, “Va! laisse couler mes larmes” from Werther
Florence Price (arr. Richard Heard), “Because” from 44 Art Songs and Spirituals
Florence Price (arr. Richard Heard), “Sympathy” from 44 Art Songs and Spirituals
Robert Schumann, I. “In der Fremde” from Liederkreis, Op. 39
Friedrich von Flotow, “Nimmermehr wird mein Herze sich grämen” from Martha
Clara Schumann, Sechs Lieder, Op. 13
Giacomo Puccini, “Principessa’s Aria” from Suor Angelica
Stefano Donaudy, “Vaghissima sembianza”
Giuseppe Verdi, “Stride la vampa!” from Il Trovatore
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
McKenna Troy, Annaliese Biesterfeld, and Annie Burgett, soprano; Antonio Ruiz-Nokes, bass-baritone; Karina Kontorovitch, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn, “The Old Astronomer (To His Pupil)”
Ben Moore, Ode to a Nightingale
Hugo Wolf, “Verborgenheit”
Ruggero Leoncavallo, “Mattinata”
Merle Travis, “Sixteen Tons”
Anton von Webern, “Sommerabend”
Robert Schumann, “Muttertraum”
Gaetano Donizetti, “Come Paride vezzoso” from L’elisir d’amore
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Liang-yu Wang, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Johannes Brahms, Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99
Pablo Casals (arr. Sally Beamish), El cant dels ocells (The Song of the Birds)
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Liang-yu Wang, piano
Benjamin Britten, Cello Suite No. 1, Op. 72
Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op. 40
Carlo Alfredo Piatti, selections from 12 Caprices for Solo Cello, Op. 26
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Master of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson, piano
Richard Strauss, selections from Fünf kleine Lieder, Op. 69
Richard Struass, “Es gibt ein Reich” from Ariadne auf Naxos
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Shest’Romasov (6 Romances), Op. 38
Benjamin Britten, Cabaret Songs
Giacomo Puccini, selections from Turandot
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
Lyra Johnson, soprano; Cameron Miya, tenor
Joseph Haydn, Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXXVIb:2
Dame Ethel Smyth, Puppet Quartett
Jason Robert Brown, “To Build a Home”
Ricky Ian Gordon, “X”
Jeanine Tesori, “Telephone Wire”
Adam Guettel, “The Light in the Piazza”
Gregorian chant (arr. Paige Dirkes-Jacks), Memorare
Aaron Copland, “Laurie’s Song” from The Tender Land
Tickets are not required for this event.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration hosted by Multicultural Student Affairs 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 rainbow and/or trans stole. Graduates are asked to pre-register to ensure participation.
Lavender Graduation will be an in-person event on Thursday, June 9th at 1:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
5:00 PM - 7:00 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 Sun stole. Graduates are asked to pre-register to ensure participation.
The Latinx Congratulatory ceremony will be an in-person event on Thursday, June 9th at 5:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium the Evanston Campus.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
Bible Explorers welcomes all who want to read scrpture, ask questions, and discuss the theology and meaning of the text as well as the impact on our lives. No previous familiarity with scripture is necessary. Current group consists of adults who meet in person at Sheil on Thursdays. (Session will NOT meet on Thursday, April 14.
Group is facilitated by Mary Deeley who received her doctoarate in Hebrew Bible and Early Christian Literature from Northwestern and Currently serves as the Pastoral Associate and Director of Christ the Teacher Institute at Sheil Catholic Center.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of W. Stephen Smith
Shichao Zhang, piano
William Bolcom, Old Addresses
William Bolcom, Laura Sonnets
William Bolcom, selections from Cabaret Songs
William Bolcom, Farewell
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Sofia Mycyk, piano
Yuri Ishchenko, Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano
Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Mykola Lysenko, Album from the Summer of 1901, Op. 39: No. 3, Elegie. La tristesse
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Online
Current MFA students and alumni, Ignatius Valentine Aloysius, Morgan Eklund, E.W.I. Johnson, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Aram Mrjoian, and Holly Stovall will read original climate change-themed poetry and prose as part of this year's roster of events for One Book One Northwestern selection, THE STORY OF MORE by Hope Jahren.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Pamela Hinchman
Jason Carlson, piano and harpsichord
John Dowland, “A Shepherd in a Shade”
John Dowland, “Come Again”
Ralph Vaughan Williams, II. “Let Beauty Awake” from Songs of Travel
Ralph Vaughan Williams, IV. “The Call” from Five Mystical Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Linden Lea”
Antonio Vivaldi, “Vedrò con mio diletto” from Il Giustino, RV 717
George Frideric Handel, “Già mi sembra al carro avvinto” from Lotario, HWV 26
Michael Tippett, Songs for Ariel
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, “A King There Lived in Thule”
Florence Price, “Night”
Florence Price, “Forever”
W. A. Mozart, “Il padre adorato” from Idomeneo, K. 366
W. A. Mozart, “Andro ramingo e solo” from Idomeneo, K. 366
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Kurt Hansen
Karina Kontorovitch, piano
Edward Elgar, “Muleteer’s Serenade”
Isaac Albéniz, “Chanson de Barberine”
Franz Schubert, “Schäfers Klagelied,” D. 121
Joaquín Turina, 5. “El Fantasma” from Canto a Sevilla, Op. 37
Hugo Wolf, 16. “Elfenlied” from Mörike-Lieder
Traditional (arr. Roger Quilter), “Believe me, if all those endearing young charms”
Hugo Wolf, 5. “Der Soldat I” from Eichendorff-Lieder
Maurice Ravel, 4. “Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques” from Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Manuel de Falla, “Olas gigantes”
Giorgio Ghedini, 3. “Tu te ne vai...” from Quattro liriche dal canzoniere del Boiardo
Roger Quilter, 1. “Weep You No More” from Seven Elizabethan Songs, Op. 12
Franz Schubert, selections from Winterreise, Op. 89
Jacques Ibert, Chansons de Don Quichotte
Tickets are not required for this event.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
Liang-yu Wang, piano
J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012
Benjamin Britten, Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Tickets are not required for this event.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
1:00 PM - 3:00 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 Kente stole. Graduates are asked to pre-register to ensure participation.
The JOY ceremony will be an in-person event on Friday, June 10th at 1:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus.
5:00 PM - 7:00 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 an "APIDA NU Grad" stole. Graduates are asked to pre-register to ensure participation.
The APIDA Senior Send-Off will be an in-person event on Friday, June 10th at 5:00 PM CDT in Cahn Auditorium on the Evanston Campus.
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Evanston
Daily Mass
Evanston Campus: 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year. For the days that Fr. Bradley is away, a Sheil team member will hold a communion service in lieu of Mass. You may find that schedule here.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Doctor of Musical Arts
Student of Hans Jørgen Jensen
XinYu Li and Mia Wang, violin; Aadam Ibrahim, viola; Amanda Lo, piano
Tyzen Hsiao, Capriccio in Hakka Melody
Tyzen Hsiao, Formosa Piano Quintet
Tickets are not required for this event.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Chicago
The Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research (CFAAR) invites ambitious students (high school-graduate level) to apply for our 1st Annual Innovation Showcase. The showcase is an evening for students to display their innovative solutions and research ideas that aim to improve the lives of those with food allergy, asthma, or other food-related conditions. There will be opportunities to network with world-renowned clinicians, entrepreneurs, & community advocates to bring your ideas to life!
Apply: https://forms.office.com/r/z21ADYjH7m
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM, Evanston
Bachelor of Music
Student of Theresa Brancaccio
Ottorino Respighi, “Notte”
Ottorino Respighi, “Nebbie”
Ottorino Respighi, “Pioggia”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Reconciliation” from 6 Romances, Op. 25
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “I Do Not Please You,” from 6 Romances, Op. 63
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Take My Heart Away,” TH. 92, No. 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Do Not Ask,” from 6 Romances, Op. 57
Barbara Strozzi, “L’eraclito amoroso” from Cantate, arietti, et duetti, Op. 2
Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Tickets are not required for this event.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
Experts and advocates from around the U.S. will join us in-person to provide an in depth and up-to-date review of the research and management of food allergy. Don't miss the chance to learn more about your diagnosis, the science behind food allergy, and tips for daily life!
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Congratulations, class of 2022! Let’s celebrate your accomplishments at Northwestern! This is our chance to say “see you later!” as you embark on your next chapter. Stop by with friends and fam, check out our photo booth, and grab a snack!
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
About this event:
Build your Canvas course with confidence! This workshop provides an overview of the basic features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas to allow you to build and support engaging courses.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Online
This session offers instructors an overview of fundamental Panopto features and demonstrates how to access and use Panopto through Canvas. Attendees will leave ready to start recording their own videos or narrated presentations.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
This session offers instructors an overview using Panopto to accept student video submissions through Canvas. Attendees will leave ready to give students the instructions they need to create and submit video assignments. This session will also go over reviewing and grading video submissions.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Online
About this event:
Build your Canvas course with confidence! This workshop provides an overview of the basic features, dynamic tools, and functionality of Canvas to allow you to build and support engaging courses.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Online
This workshop will prepare instructors to create quizzes and exams in Canvas. Participants will learn about question types, question banks, quiz settings including time limits, and grading functions.
Participants in this workshop should already be familiar with the features and functionality of Canvas by completing the Introduction to Canvas workshop.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Evanston
Free tours of the Dearborn Observatory and the chance to look through the historic 18.5 inch refracting telescope every Friday night, 9pm-11pm during the spring/summer, 8pm-10pm during the fall/winter.
Reservations are required and our reservations for April, May, June, and July are currently at full capacity. Beginning Friday, June 3rd, we will resume walk-in tours from 10pm-11pm.
For more information on the Dearborn Observatory, please visit our website.
If you have any questions, please email Samantha Westlake at samantha.westlake@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-3685.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM, Online
Each Sunday, the Mass at 9:30 a.m. CST is broadcast via livestream. Join us at sheilcatholiccenter.org/livestream.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Suday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Sunday Masses
9:30am
11am
5pm
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
Learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas Prerequisite: Intro to Canvas Workshop.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to create assignments, give feedback, and assign grades in Canvas.
Participants in this workshop should already be familiar with the features and functionality of Canvas by completing the Introduction to Canvas workshop.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
10:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Chicago
WELL 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.
Light therapy, exposure to artificial light, can be a safe and effective way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and some types of depression and sleep disorders. Benefits that may be experienced include: alleviation of SAD symptoms and other types of depression, and improvement in sleep disorders, mood and energy.
Completion of a one-time e-consent form is required. See "More Info" to access the e-consent form.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
All day, No Location
(for students in participating schools/programs)
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
This session offers instructors an overview of fundamental Panopto features and demonstrates how to access and use Panopto through Canvas. Attendees will leave ready to start recording their own videos or narrated presentations.
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Exhibition Frequently Asked Questions
Selected Resources
Group Visits
Exhibition Advisors and Partnerships
The themes, content, and format of A Site of Struggle have been developed in consultation with an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and Northwestern faculty and graduate students. Participants are connected by their investigations of American art, visual culture, and African Americans’ production and representation within these fields.
Advised by leaders across Northwestern and within the Evanston community, The Block has engaged in dialogues with stakeholders that will continue throughout 2021 in order to shape visitor experience and co-develop collaborative programming on issues of racial justice. This work will enrich A Site of Struggle programming and will lay a foundation for our work into the future.
List of Exhibition Partners
The Block Museum exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama August 13- November 6, 2022
CREDITS
A Site of Struggle is organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and is curated by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, with the assistance of Alisa Swindell, Curatorial Research Associate.
Lead support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernstein Family Contemporary Art Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Block DEAI Fund, and the Block Board of Advisors. Generous support is contributed by William Spiegel and Lisa Kadin, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and by Lynne Jacobs. The related publication is co-published by The Block Museum of Art and Princeton University Press and is supported by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the Sandra L. Riggs Publication Fund.