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Visual and Performing Arts

Each year the DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Join us for the reception on Friday, May 12, from 5 – 7 pm.

Participating Schools Include:

• Aspen Ridge Elementary School
• Birchview Elementary School
• Cherry Creek Elementary School
• Father Marquette Catholic Academy
• Gilbert Elementary School
• Lakeview Elementary School
• North Star Montessori Academy
• Powell Township School
• Sandy Knoll Elementary School
• Sawyer Elementary School
• Graveraet Elementary School
• With Special Guest, Bothwell Middle School

Visual and Performing Arts

Each year the DeVos Art Museum celebrates our area schools that support art programs for students. This annual exhibition, featuring talented elementary students’ artwork in all media, is organized by hardworking art teachers from local schools.

Participating Schools Include:

• Aspen Ridge Elementary School
• Birchview Elementary School
• Cherry Creek Elementary School
• Father Marquette Catholic Academy
• Gilbert Elementary School
• Lakeview Elementary School
• North Star Montessori Academy
• Powell Township School
• Sandy Knoll Elementary School
• Sawyer Elementary School
• Graveraet Elementary School
• With Special Guest, Bothwell Middle School

Visual and Performing Arts

The DeVos Art Museum on Northern Michigan University’s campus will hold a Family Night on Thursday, April 20th, from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public, and all are invited to attend, including immediate, extended, and chosen families. Guided tours with the curators are offered on the hour at 5 pm and 6 pm, and visitors are encouraged to participate in an all-ages activity available from 5 pm through 7 pm, with supplies and guidance provided. Curators Emily Lanctot, Sydney Sarasin, and Diane Kordich will be available throughout the event to chat and answer questions.

Family Night events will highlight current exhibitions New to the Collection: Lundmark and the Lake, Kinngait: Artists' Reflections in Print, and Selections in Contemporary Illustration and Snowdrift, both of which feature artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection. These exhibitions are on show through this summer. The Senior Exhibition for this semester’s graduating seniors will also be available for viewing.

Join us on April 20th, 5-7:30 pm, for a fun way to experience art at the DeVos Art Museum located on the corner of Tracy and 7th street. The Museum is open Monday-Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 12-5 pm, and Thursday 12-8 pm. Contact the museum at (906) 227-2235 or visit us online at nmuartmuseum.com

Visual and Performing Arts

Join local musicians of the Marquette City Band in their spring performance held in Reynolds Recital Hall on April 23 at 3:00 p.m.!

Visual and Performing Arts

Coming to Reynolds Recital Hall this month is NMUs very own trombone choir! Headed by our director of bands, Dr. Stephen Grugin, listeners can look forward to hearing all sorts of brass madness!

Visual and Performing Arts

This coming April, the Marquette Symphony Orchestra presents it's final concert of the season, featuring the NMU Choirs. At this evenings concert, listeners will hear:

Alexander Borodin, Symphony No. 2 in B minor

L. Bernstein... Chichester Psalms*

R. Vaughan Williams... Toward the Unknown Region*

     *with NMU Choirs

Get your tickets ranging from $10-$36 at https://nmu.universitytickets.com/w/

Visual and Performing Arts

Graduating seniors from the School of Art and Design present their work. This semester, the exhibition features students concentrating in ceramics, computer art, digital cinema, drawing/painting, graphic design, human-centered design, illustration, metalsmithing/sculpture, photography, and woodworking.

Dates: April 20 - May 5, 2023 

Please join us for a screening of digital artworks at 6:30 pm and the reception at 7 pm. Awards will be announced at 8 pm. Gold award sponsored by annual donors, the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum. Silver and Bronze awards are sponsored by the NMU School of Art & Design.

Participating artists include: Kendra Anderson, Lauren Bagby, Trent Boylan, Brenden Bruhnke, Lauren Call, Niels Callewaert, Savana S. Eller, Rebecca Fletcher, Miiya Hendrickson, Kelsey Hill, Triton Johnston, Jacob Lenderink, Sonja Madsen, Amanda Murray, Kelly Nordquist, Fjora Olson, Nathan Parker, Anna Pattok, Delaney Pickett, Nevaeh Powell, Isa Shavrnoch, Matt Simon, Lukas Zielke.

Visual and Performing Arts

Graduating seniors from the School of Art and Design present their work. This semester, the exhibition features students concentrating in ceramics, computer art, digital cinema, drawing/painting, graphic design, human-centered design, illustration, metalsmithing/sculpture, photography, and woodworking.

Reception: Friday, May 5, 2023 Please join us for a screening of digital artworks at 6:30 pm and the reception at 7 pm.

Awards will be announced at 8 pm. Gold award sponsored by annual donors, the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum. Silver and Bronze awards are sponsored by the NMU School of Art & Design.

Participating artists include: Kendra Anderson, Lauren Bagby, Trent Boylan, Brenden Bruhnke, Lauren Call, Niels Callewaert, Savana S. Eller, Rebecca Fletcher, Miiya Hendrickson, Kelsey Hill, Triton Johnston, Jacob Lenderink, Sonja Madsen, Amanda Murray, Kelly Nordquist, Fjora Olson, Nathan Parker, Anna Pattok, Delaney Pickett, Nevaeh Powell, Isa Shavrnoch, Matt Simon, Lukas Zielke.

Visual and Performing Arts

On April 6th, some of Marquette's Superior String Alliance players are coming together on the Reynolds Recital Hall stage! Members include Danielle Simandl, Ria Hodgson, Eric Marta, Adam Hall, and NMU strings and orchestra professor, Barbara Rhyneer. Come down to Reynolds on Thursday, April 6th, to hear some beautiful chamber strings music!

This event is free and open to the public.

Visual and Performing Arts

Open Mind Ensemble (OM Ensemble) is a mixed instrument chamber ensemble that creates music and sonic spaces formed out of improvisational techniques.  Utilizing spoken word, found instruments, standard musical language as well as non-standard, OM creates a space for creativity, acceptance, and togetherness.
Joining OM for a portion of this performance is Alley Oops Improv, an improv theater group based in Marquette.

This event is free and open to the public.