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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


Photographs on the wall of Evanston Art Center.

Evanston Art Center’s “The Four Virtues: Wonder” explores Afro-American diaspora, experience of Black men and boys

January 28, 2025

Content Warning: This story contains a mention of police violence.  In 2016, street photographer Eli Williamson found himself on the New York City metro across from a Black father who had fallen asleep...

Woven fabric and TVs

Woven Rhythms exhibit explores intersection between weaving and music, redefines weaving beyond a physical art medium

November 22, 2024

For Qianwen Yu, a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and independent animator, woven textures and musical compositions are interconnected. Yu said her work uses weaving drafts to produce symphonies....

Interactive art piece centered around books

Evanston Art Center hosts ‘Dialogue Chicago: Out Loud’ exhibit, collaborates with 33 artists

October 16, 2024

In 2002, Chicago-based artist Sarah Krepp said she was raking leaves in her yard when a neighbor came up to her asking for advice on their art. This happened four times in the same month, she said. Krepp,...

At a bus stop an individual, wearing a black sweatshirt and blue jeans holds grocery bags while cradling a child wearing a flannel that seems to be asleep. A fence stands behind the bench with green overgrowth and there is a map of the subway and bus system plastered up.

Eli Williamson’s ‘Four Virtues’ exhibit highlights loving Black fathers

February 9, 2023

Southside photographer Eli Williamson documents loving fathers with their children in everyday settings. Williamson said the mission of his exhibit is to highlight and change the “negative stereotypical...

Four squares with illustrations of people in them. On the left side, two people wear masks, and on the right, the same people are unmasked.

Evanston community centers, businesses adapt protocols following mask mandate lift

April 3, 2022

When Evanston lifted its vaccination and indoor mask requirements Feb. 28, early childhood center Little Green Tree House decided to wait to see COVID-19 numbers before removing its own mask mandate. “We...

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