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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

A person in a black dress and hat stands in front of three paintings.

‘Black History/My History’ celebrates diverse experiences of Blackness

February 20, 2023

Featuring more than 25 Black artists, “Black History/My History,” an exhibit at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, displays personal and collective interpretations of Black experience and history.  Several...

The Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center

Evanston residents and councilmembers discuss 2023 Capital Improvement Plan

October 18, 2022

Evanston residents expressed concern about the city’s 2023 Capital Improvement Plan at Monday’s City Council meeting. The Capital Improvement Plan helps fund the city’s parks, facilities and other...

Two Art Club participants sit beside each other at a table covered with art supplies, creating collages out of paint and words printed on paper.

Art Encounter’s Art Club offers individuals with disabilities space to share their artistic voice

January 11, 2022

Every other week, participants in Art Club meet to work on art projects like clay sculptures, watercolors, and recreations of famous pieces. The program is run by a partnership between Art Encounter,...

Part of the “Up from Down Home” series by local artist Jevoid Simmons. The new exhibit opened at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center on May 10.

Local artist tells family migration story from Alabama to Evanston in ‘Up from Down Home’ exhibit

May 22, 2019

Local artist Jevoid Simmons’ family was forced to flee Alabama in the early 1950s because of threats from the KKK. Today, through his exhibit “Up from Down Home,” Simmons tells the story of his family’s...

The artist constructed four sculpted portraits of students kidnapped in Mexico in 2014. He used garbage and clay as the media to create the portraits of the students who were burned to ashes.

Upcoming art exhibition sheds light on Mexican social injustices

October 20, 2016

A&E Although the upcoming Noyes Cultural Arts Center exhibition might initially strike viewers to be a tribute to the students who disappeared in Mexico two years ago, the exhibit carries a deeper...

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