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Pianist Kathleen Supove makes her NMS Debut with a concert featuring a world premiere by Thomas Flaherty as well as compositions by Mary Kouyoumdjian, Rahilia Hasanova, Randall Woolf, and Kathleen Supové.
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Black History Month Concert
Celebrate Black History Month with a dynamic concert spotlighting talented local artists! This concert will honor the rich legacy of Black music and culture by featuring performances across genres including jazz, gospel, spoken word, tap dance, and poetry. The performance includes performances by UIS students, faculty/staff, and guest artists from the community. Join us for this vibrant celebration of heritage, creativity, and unity, as we honor the past and uplift the future through music and art.
Brown Bag Concert: Maritime Music from Melville to Master and Commander
Join Dr. Sharon Graf and the Itchy Fingers String Band for a lecture-performance on maritime music from Melville to Master and Commander. Sing along to a sea chantey. Bring your lunch!
Art Therapy Minor
The Visual Arts program and the Psychology department work in tandem to offer a minor in Art Therapy. The minor meets the American Art Therapy Association's basic requirements for entrance into their approved graduate programs by requiring 18 studio art credits and 13 psychology credits.
Broaden Your Horizons
The minor encourages breadth of exploration while providing students with a foundation to prepare them for continued study or to work in community arts programs and organizations where art is used as part of the therapeutic or recreational process.
Art History Minor
Discover the Past
The Art History minor is a 15-16 credit hour course of study focusing on the foundations, meanings and implications of the history of art. The undergraduate minor is designed for students wanting to gain an insight into different aspects of art history; understand how art history is related to culture and history; and recognize how the visual arts affects who we are as individuals, contributes to our humanity and deepens our understanding of the relationships between humans and society.
Visual Arts Minor
Elevate your academic journey with a Visual Arts minor at UIS!
Visual Arts, BA
In Visual Arts courses, faculty and students work together in a professional and creative learning environment.
Welcome to the exciting journey of the B.A. in Visual Arts at UIS! We're here to help you unlock your creativity, refine your skills and prepare for a future full of artistic possibilities.
Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson is a professor of theatre in the Art, Music, and Theatre Department.
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Orchestra Festival Concert
Join us in Sangamon Auditorium for the UIS Orchestra Festival Concert featuring the UIS Orchestra and Illinois Symphony Orchestra Youth Ensembles. Repertoire includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations, one of the best-known English orchestral works of all time whose enigma has yet to be solved. In the words of the composer: “The Enigma I will not explain – its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the connexion between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme ‘goes’, but is not played . . . . So the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas – e.g. Maeterlinck’s L’Intruse and Les sept Princesses – the chief character is never on the stage.”
UIS Band Festival Concert
Featuring the UIS Band in a program of music from around the world including "Cajun Folk Songs" by Frank Ticheli, Greek Folk Song Suite by Franco Cesarini and Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance.