Graduate students in NIU's College of Visual and Performing Arts conduct performances and create projects in partial fulfilment of program requirements. This collection showcases those artistic outputs.

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Student Projects from 2025

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Strange Looking Creature, Bernadette K. Curl

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Fantastical Blooms, Lisa Dienst-Thomas

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State of Being, Danielle M. Koenig

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CODE to CAST, Shahrzad Motallebi

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Con Fe te vere otra vez, Edwin Perez-Hernandez

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Rewilding, Hanna Kaye Sosin

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Making Magic While the Sun Hides, Emma J. Vitallo

Student Projects from 2024

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Cuerpos/Vessels, Maria Jesus Alonso

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FORMULA: A Poetic Alchemy of Emotion and Identity, Arman Eshtiaghi

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I'm Not a Robot, Dean Krueger

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Double Exposed Perspectives, Michael J. Leeson

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Mo, Xinyao Li

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Options, Matthew C. Mata

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Swine & Symphonies, Dilara Miller

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Suffering Juicebox, Janelle O'Malley

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False Eidetic, Zach Sockol

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Leg, Veronica L. Storc

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Makeher, Maeve R. Wallace

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Generations, Jayla Watkins

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Growth From Within, Raevenne Zackery

Student Projects from 2023

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BFA Show, Alexandra Dulski

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Fragmented Relationships, Drew M. Dzurko

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Inevitable, Emilee Grummel

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Transition from Sport to Career, Brookelyn Sears

Student Projects from 2022

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What Tomorrow will Bring, Marco A. Camacho

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Comfortably Uncomfortable, Marisol Cervantes

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Vitality, Bernadette K. Curl

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The Space Between, JoAnne D. Laudolff

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The Lighthouse is Calling Me, Ina Muphy

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Monuments are for the Living: The Confederate Mound Monument and the Falsehood of Reconciliation Statues, Janelle O'Malley

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Decay, Qiming Ruan

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Food Insecurity Among NIU College Students, Hannah Schaumberg

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Figures Fade and Souls Are Sore, Mikayla Shuster

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Ours, Emma J. Vitallo

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Crochet as an Allegory, Maeve R. Wallace

Student Projects from 2021

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Home is Where the Lost Are, Michael A. Allen

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Forbidden Fruit, Briana N. Anders

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Disappear Here, Larissa Barnat

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Constructed Inhumanity, Karl P. Bibler

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There and You, Deanna Doty

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Melancholia, Thesis and Documentation of One-Person Exhibition, Andrew K. Elsten

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When Did I Stop Being Invincible?, Amy M. Fleming

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Out with the Boys - League Night, Nathanial J. Gilchrist

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How To, Christina M. Kang

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The Messy Truth of My Body, Ashley A. Nania

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Waiting To Be Seen, Sarah L. Napp

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Rubberband Man Enters the Virtual Still Life, Ari O. Norris

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Art Education as Mutual Aid: Community and Social Justice Based Initiatives, Janelle O'Malley

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Tales of Mortality, Gregory S. Padgett

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Who Do You See?, Angela A. Redmond

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Holding onto Reality, Jacob B. Rivera

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The Bigger Picture, M. Mickey Satkiewicz

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ill_be_waiting_in_the_wings, Gretchen A. Schreiber

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Going Dutch, Aimee J. Valentine

Student Projects from 2020

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Gutted: Stem to Stern, Zachary J. Bath

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Different Views, Manuel Espejel

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- Nine Years -, Danielle M. Koenig

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Consequences, Brieana Myrick

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You Belong Here: A Critical Look at Community Engagement in Museum Education Through K-16 Place Based Pedagogy, Janelle O'Malley

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The Absence of Humanity, Heriberto Ponce

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The Comfort Of Restraint, Scotland E. Terwedow

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Yamin Xu Master of Fine Art Thesis, Yamin Xu

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Edge of Epiphany, Anna-Marie Zurlinden

Student Projects from 2019

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Portfolio Presentation, Elizabeth S. Dickenson

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Into My Mind, Tyler Greene

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This Is Not a Dead Man, Kevin Hunter

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Phobia, Aubrianna S. Kozuch

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Secondary Level Art Students' Experiences Creating Artwork Using Software Programs, Nicholas G. Leonard

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Plastic Patriotism, John S. Linquist

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Burned Deeply By The Flames of Shame, Samantha R. Mendoza

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Still Searching, Ari O. Norris

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Reaching Across Community Lines: How Informal Visual Art Educational Programming Bridges the Gap, Janelle O'Malley

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The Invocation, Zeinab Saab

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Chromatic Reverie, Paul Zollinger

Student Projects from 2018

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Permanence, Angela Bachman

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Divinity Series, Jamiah J. Calvin

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Saturday's And Dreamsicles, Jamiah J. Calvin

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Video Magic, Rebecca Griffith

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Developing a Critical Perspective of Creative Agency in Digital Environments, Nicholas G. Leonard

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Transmigration, Sarah M. O'Heron

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Love and Justice, Hayley Peters

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load - bearing, Elyse Sawka

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no one belongs here more than you, Tania Y. Silver

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Fresh Out, Antoinette Viola

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Iterations, Kinga Wojciaczyk

Student Projects from 2017

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Freshly Settled, Kathleen Albano

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The Creatures come out to Play, Megan Crocker

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Otherwise Uninteresting Things, Sheena R. Daugherty

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Queer Space, Amy L. Shelton

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Neglected Interiors, Linda F. Zalewski

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Accommodating Complexities, Sean Zierer

Student Projects from 2016

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Tattered Remains, Katherine Houlne