Landmark announcement scheduled for September 12

Center for the Performing Arts

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, the Illinois State University Board of Trustees and President Larry H. Dietz will announce the naming of the College of Fine Arts and the School of Art in recognition of the generosity of alumna Wonsook Kim and her husband Thomas Clement.

Schroeder Hall Gallery Opening Reception of The Water Show

drawing of waves

The Schroeder Hall Art Gallery opening reception of The Water Show, a collection of works curated from ISU art students and faculty with the theme of water as it is relevant to the environment, will be at 6: 30 p.m. Thursday, September 5,

Student art gallery opens at airport

pieces of sculpture and art on walls at a gallery

The Bloomington-Normal Airport Authority and Illinois State University College of Fine Arts have announced the opening of the new ISU School of Art Student Art Gallery at the Central Illinois Regional Airport.

Illinois Art Station’s Itsy Studio receives grant to enable early childhood art education program

Child sitting and coloring.

Illinois State University’s Illinois Art Station announced a $45,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to benefit Redbirds Rising: The Campaign for Illinois State that provides funding for Illinois Art Station’s Itsy Studio: In the Community program. The grant money, part of PNC’s Grow Up Great®, will be distributed to the program over two years. Illinois Art Station is a collaboration between Illinois State’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine Arts.

Redbird alumna crowned Miss Illinois

Ariel Beverly is this year's Miss Illinois.

Illinois State alumna Ariel Beverly ’17 feels like she is living a real-life Cinderella story of sorts now that she has been crowned Miss Illinois and has qualified for the 2020 Miss America pageant.