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Visual and Performing Arts

This recital will feature vocal majors and collaborative pianists (Katie Flaherty, Jan Brodersen, and Dr. Theresa Camilli). We hope to see many vocal enthusiasts in the audience at this free event!

Visual and Performing Arts

Following the Saturday performance at Kaufman Auditorium, Marquette Symphony Orchestra Guest Artist and Pianist, Jeffrey Biegel, will perform and discuss works of Chopin and Grieg in this "Informance". There will be a light reception to follow!

Visual and Performing Arts

Join the NMU Percussion Ensemble on Saturday, November 8th at 3:00 PM in Reynolds Recital Hall! These concerts are always exciting and feature solos from the Percussion Majors at NMU!

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Join us in a new location for the first NMU Choral Concert of the fall semester! This concert will feature sacred choral works with the Arts Chorale, University Choir and Professor Patrick Booth, saxophone.

Sacred music offers a great educational experience about the history of choral music for our students and community. We will see you at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Marquette at 3:00 PM on Sunday, October 26. Admission is free and welcome to all!

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Join us for a fun, and free, night of Jazz! This is the first Jazz Concert of the 2025-26 school year featuring the NMU Jazz Band, The Lighthouse Octet, and the NMU Wildcat Combo. See you in Reynolds Recital Hall at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, October 1st.

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Murmurations features paintings by Leslie Baum, created in the studio from work made as part of her Plein Air Project. The Project offers a fresh spin on plein air painting – the act of painting outdoors from the landscape. All the work on display stems from her ongoing practice of hosting plein air painting dates, in which she invites others to paint alongside her in the open air. In the spirit of this project, we invite you to invite a friend to join you for a self-directed outdoor painting experience. Gather in front of the museum on Thursday, September 25, at 2:00 p.m., and we will head to an outdoor painting spot.

The event is free and open to all. While the museum will have small clipboards and a few supplies available, you are encouraged to bring your supplies, a hard surface to work on, and a blanket or chair to sit on. We will start with an introduction, but instruction is not provided; this is simply an opportunity to paint outdoors with a partner and share that experience with many others doing the same. 

Visual and Performing Arts

Join us on Wednesday, September 24, at 6 pm, in Art & Design Room 165 for a Visiting Artist talk with Leslie Baum. 

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Hailing from Brooklyn, Brass Queens is a female-led brass band featuring all-female horns with a sound that is deeply inspired by the New Orleans tradition. They regularly tour across the country and internationally, appearing on festival stages including the Ottawa Jazz Festival, Northlands Music Festival, MusikFest, Duck Jazz Festival, and Exit Zero Jazz Festival.

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Beethoven and Banjos, an annual project organized by the Northwoods Music Collaborative, is more than a simple presentation of the respective styles of classical and traditional music. The program integrates music and musicians from around the world to create new music and new interpretations of old music. Their past performances at NMU have been very well-received, and this year Beethoven and Banjos will feature Icelandic musicians Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir and Halldór Smárason. Evan Premo performs with Saeunn through his work with Decoda (an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall). Saeunn and Halldór, along with Evan Premo and Laurel Premo will present classical and folk music from Iceland. 

Learn more about Beethoven and Banjos on their website: northwoodsmusiccollaborative.org/beethoven-and-banjos

Visual and Performing Arts

On Friday, September 12th, 2025, please join us for performances, activations, a discussion, and the reception. 

• 12 pm - 5 pm, in front of Art & Design building: misael soto 

• 6 pm: Panel discussion with Mark Jeffery and Kelly Kaczynski 

• 7 pm - 9 pm: Reception featuring performances by Heather Lyon and Kristin Mariani. 

The exhibition features thirty artists who participated in Nido (Italian for "nest"), an artist residency in Monte Castello di Vibio, a hill town in the Umbria region of Italy. The artworks feature a wide range of subjects and multitude of sensory approaches that distill, echo, reflect, and respond to a shared place-based experience. The artworks demonstrate how artist residencies serve as a site of research and play, connecting artists and ideas, fostering community, and laying the groundwork for new approaches to thinking and working, while rapidly transmitting culture.

Artists include Amber J. Anderson, Leslie Baum, Rachel Collier, Gianna Commito, Daisy Craddock, Bailey Fritz, Mary Griffin, Keeley Haftner, Kate Hampel, Mark Jeffery, Kelly Kaczynski, Arnold J. Kemp, Audrey Hynes Kilinski, Emily Lanctot, Amy Lang, Heather Lyon, Kristin Mariani, Jeffrey McMahon, Stephanie McMaho, Heather Mekkelson, Judd Morrissey, Jessica Mueller, Ruth L. Poor, Shawn Powell, Corrie Slawson, misael soto, Ann Stoddard, Simone Whiteley-Allen, Kevin Wixted, and Adrian Wong.