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CTK Games Showcase returning in 2023

Students playing games at the 2022 Games Showcase

This year’s Games Showcase event will take place on Thursday, April 27 in the Circus Room at the Bone Student Center.

Meet the April 2023 GradBird Scholar: Sarah Eckstine

Sarah Eckstine sits in front of several art pieces that she has worked on.

Meet the April 2023 GradBird Scholar Sarah Eckstine.

All aboard: The School of Theatre and Dance presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express

The School of Theatre and Dance will stage Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of the classic novel, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express with performances April 19-22.

Graduate student’s passion fuels development of video game Occentatia

Ian Cooper followed their passion to the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, developing Occentatia, a video game that combines queer theory, escapism, community, and exploration.

Meet the Artists: Pink Man, or, The Only Indian in the Room

A promotional poster image inspired by a paleograph of the Ojibwe trickster figure Nanabohzo.

Crossroads Project Chair Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with playwright Marty Strenczewilk and director Dr. Shannon Epplett about the upcoming staged reading of PINK MAN, OR THE ONLY INDIAN IN THE ROOM, winner of the 2023 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative.

Balancing act: WKCFA alum Francois Battiste ’99 finds balance between family, career

Francois Battiste shows gratitude to guests of a master class he led in 2018

Accomplished actor of stage and screen Francois Battiste ’99 has found a balance between his career and his family.

Beyond the Stage: Time’s up

Photo collage of a bookshelf, illustration of a theatre, and a statue

Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm discusses the unity of time in “The Comedy of Errors” and “The Tempest” on the 2023 season of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

Beyond the Stage interview: Seriously funny

Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with director Doug Finlayson about the 2023 production of “The Comedy of Errors” at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).

“My Body and Me” painting exhibit opens at Rachel Cooper Gallery

A primarily blue and black abstract oil painting that features a vague blonde woman in a chair looking up.

Madelyn Turner’s poetically colorful representations of trauma and gendered embodiment will be on exhibit as part of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program’s art series.

Students experience music, art, and more during study abroad experiences in United Kingdom and Italy

Student on the Orvieto Summer Study Abroad program trip

Students from the 2022 summer programs share their study abroad experiences.