Land Lines, a two-person exhibition of work by Shona MacDonald and Melissa Oresky, will run from August 28- October 2, 2025 at the Moreau Gallery, College of St. Mary’s, Notre Dame, Indiana.Events on August 28: artist talks at 3:30 p.m. and reception at 4:30 p.m. 

Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in Julian Hall.Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery location and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/student-art-gallery/.Exhibition Reception*: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 from 4-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice.For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office.

Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in Julian Hall.Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery location and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/student-art-gallery/.Exhibition Reception*: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 from 4-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice.For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office.

The Alumni & Friends Travel Program is your ticket to unforgettable adventures that combine travel’s thrill with fellow Redbirds’ camaraderie.Our first adventure kicks off this fall with the Flavors of Northern Italy, September 26-October 4, 2025. Embark upon a cultural and savory journey to the enchanting region of Northern Italy—an area renowned for spectacular landscapes, world-class wine, and a rich heritage. This meticulously crafted itinerary offers the unique opportunity to live like a local, featuring guided tours, private artisan visits and tastings, and the ability to deeply connect with the beauty of Northern Italy’s culture, cuisine, and gracious hospitality. The trip includes seven-night accommodations, all meals, all lessons, private tours, tastings, and small-group excursions, private motor coach transportation, full guided services, and airport transfers. Guests can also add the option to visit Cinque Terre or Venice with the tour.This program is open to all alumni, family, and friends—because the Redbird spirit knows no borders. To learn more about upcoming trips, detailed itineraries, and how to reserve your place, visit illinoisstate.orbridge.com 

For additional information contact School of Music (309) 438-7631

Create found poems inspired by works in Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect. Participants will be invited to share their artwork in a collaborative zine, printed by and presented at Bloomington Public Library on Saturday, November 8. All materials provided. Registration is Required.ExhibitionShift Rotate Reflect is a re-imagining of poet and artist Jen Bervin’s first survey exhibition. Originally on view at University Galleries in Fall 2020 during COVID-19 restrictions and closures, the exhibition featured 23 solo and collaborative works created from 1997 through 2020. Opening five years after the first exhibition, this experiment—re-presenting the anchor projects differently alongside new works—is a direct response to the limitations imposed by the pandemic. Audiences will be able to engage with the material complexities of Bervin’s work, explore the expanded connections among them, and participate in robust public programming.The exhibition title, Shift Rotate Reflect, was excerpted from Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere, a five-channel video installation that Bervin collaboratively created with filmmaker Charlotte Lagarde. The words “shift,” “rotate,” and “reflect” have been guideposts for Bervin and exhibition curator Kendra Paitz while envisioning the 2025 exhibition. This iteration of Shift Rotate Reflect features installations, embroideries, prints, artist’s books, and videos created through 2025. The selected works demonstrate the interdisciplinary range of Bervin’s long-term research on topics including legacies of women artists and writers, relationships between text and textiles, and abstractions of language and landscape.Core projects from the first exhibition include Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere (2016–2020), a video and textile installation addressing Chinese poet Su Hui and her 4th-century reversible poem, “Xuanji tu”; River (2006–2018), a scale model of the Mississippi River from the geocentric point of view, hand-stitched in silver sequins and spanning 230 curvilinear feet; Silk Poems (2010–2017), which centers around Bervin’s poem for a biosensor written from the perspective of a silkworm and composed in a six-character chain corresponding to the DNA structure of silk; and The Dickinson Composites (2004–ongoing), a series of large-scale embroideries comprising stitched composites of the variant marks American poet Emily Dickinson used in her manuscripts to link alternate words and phrases.New works featured in Shift Rotate Reflect include eight new quilts in The Dickinson Composites series, a 10-foot silk print of the silkworm cocoon, the video Faire et défaire with an original score by Catherine McRae, and two recent artist’s books The Sea and On Weaving—a video, typed prints, and an annotated copy of Anni Albers’ 1965 book of the same name—which, in Bervin’s words, “references the grid that the typewriter and weaving have in common, as well as the direct relationship between looms and computing.”This exhibition is the center point of multiple programs and engagements. Jen Bervin will give a public lecture and meet with students on campus. Bervin’s exhibition is a central focus of a Text and Textile seminar in the Wonsook Kim School of Art. Normal Community High School’s Experimental Ensemble is composing original scores inspired by Bervin’s work and performing them within the exhibition. University Galleries is collaborating with Illinois State University’s Milner Library on a reading list and book display and partnering with Bloomington Public Library on a poetry workshop that will result in a zine. University Galleries’ staff is also leading art-making workshops for ISU students, K-12 students, and community members, as well as organizing pop-up exhibitions. Sensory-friendly times, independent drawing hours, drop-in writing hours, and scavenger hunts are available. Curator-led tours are available by appointment. Field trip reimbursements for tours and workshops are available for K-12 schools and community organizations.A 192-page monograph accompanies the exhibition. Published in 2022, between both exhibitions, the book features poet and playwright Claudia Rankine’s conversation with Bervin, Jennifer Yee’s interview with Bervin and Lagarde, essays by scholar Jayme Collins and curator Kendra Paitz, a facsimile chapter from Bervin’s hand-stitched artist’s book The Desert, a visual index of Bervin’s book projects, and an illustrated biography.Jen Bervin: Shift Rotate Reflect is curated by Kendra Paitz, University Galleries’ director and chief curator. This exhibition and programming are supported by University Galleries’ grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Alice and Fannie Fell Trust. Workshops and field trip reimbursements are supported by the Lori Baum and Aaron Henkelman University Galleries Community Fund. This exhibition would not have been possible without previous support. The 2020 iteration of Shift Rotate Reflect was supported by University Galleries’ grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Harold K. Sage Foundation, and the Illinois State University Foundation Fund.Artist biographiesJen Bervin’s projects have been exhibited at the Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Power Plant, Toronto; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, Massachusetts; and Morgan Library and Museum, New York, among others. Bervin has authored numerous books and artist’s books including Silk Poems, a New Museum Book of the Year and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (with Marta Werner and Susan Howe), a Book of the Year selection by The New Yorker.  Bervin has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Asian Cultural Council, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Art, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Banff Centre, Northwestern University, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. Her work is featured in 60 collections, including Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Yale University, Brooklyn Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Bervin’s work is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery, San Franscisco. She is a 2025–2026 Fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and lives in Connecticut and Marseille, Bouches-de-Rhône in France.Charlotte Lagarde has made more than 20 films, which have been aired on PBS, HBO, and the Sundance Channel, and exhibited at MASS MoCA. Her many awards include an Academy Award, the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award, and the Ashland Independent Film Festival’s Best Documentary award, as well as fellowships from Sundance, BAVC, and Camargo Foundation. Her project Colonial White was included in the exhibitions The Racial Imaginary Institute: On Whiteness at The Kitchen, New York City, and Great Force at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University as a city-wide participatory project in Richmond, Virginia. Lagarde is the executive director of the Swell Foundation and the COO & co-founder of B.Public. She lives in Connecticut and France.

This event has been postponed with future date to be set in spring 2026.The Greater Chicago Alumni Network is bringing the full Redbird experience straight to the Windy City! We’re rounding up Redbirds from near and far to celebrate Illinois State pride like only we can. Get ready to grab your Avanti’s, take a virtual stroll through the Quad, and enjoy a campus-style bash loaded with your favorite traditions:Redbird Trivia – Team up and compete for great prizesPhoto Booth Fun – Strike your best Redbird poseResidence Hall Mini Golf – Putt your way through the hallsSocial Bingo – Mingle and win while meeting fellow alumniBattle Bradley Basketball – Show that Redbird spirit and free throw skillsMore Activities & Surprises – You never know what’s in store!Round up your flock, dust off your Redbird gear, and get ready for a day of campus memories—Chicago edition!

We can’t wait for Reggie Day at the Zoo so we bumped it up earlier in the year to talk Homecoming and Redbird fun as we visit with Reggie’s zoo-tastic friends!Join ISU Alumni Engagement and our favorite feathered friend, Reggie Redbird, for a fun-filled afternoon featuring photo opps with Reggie, an exclusive otter feeding, face painting, and more.Access to Reggie Day at the Zoo is MPZ general admission price or a membership pass. Questions? Contact Darion Effinger, graduate assistant for Alumni Engagement.

We can’t wait for Reggie Day at the Zoo so we bumped it up earlier in the year to talk Homecoming and Redbird fun as we visit with Reggie’s zoo-tastic friends!Join ISU Alumni Engagement and our favorite feathered friend, Reggie Redbird, for a fun-filled afternoon featuring photo opps with Reggie, an exclusive otter feeding, face painting, and more.Access to Reggie Day at the Zoo is MPZ general admission price or a membership pass. Questions? Contact Darion Effinger, graduate assistant for Alumni Engagement.

ISU Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) – Symphony No. 104, “London” Hob.I:104 (1795) and Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) – Symphony No. 8, Op. 88 (1889). Samuel Chen, conductorTo purchase tickets

September 29, October 1, 6, 8 (Mondays and Wednesdays) 1:30-3:30 pmAttend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal            ORWatch Online via ZoomFEES:$35 for Senior Professional members (includes all four sessions)$45 for non-members (includes all four sessions)For in-person participation, pricing is per person.For Zoom participation, pricing is one registration per household.Price includes:Four 2-hour sessions (one Academy of Seniors class).$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the start of the class(es) and again on the day of each session.Learn the dynamics of persuasion, including important source, receiver and message components while also exploring the effects of persuasive communication on receivers’ attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors.Based on Dr. Hunts’s new book, co- authored with colleague Keven R. Meyer, Hunt will address new media, engaged citizenship and deconstructing messages in a post-truth world to deepen attendees’ understanding of persuasion.Themes will include the application of contemporary persuasion theory and research to the post-truth era, the influence of new media on persuasive communication and how to use persuasion to become civically engaged and advance the common good.Stephen Hunt, Professor, School of Communication, ISU

The DeKalb County Action Team meets on the last Monday of the month at 3:30 P.M. Community Co-Leader: Tiara Huggins (815) 901-3417 thuggins1@niu.eduMeeting Type: In-person meeting148 N 3rd St, DeKalb, IL 60115

Tour historic Ewing Manor, the Channel-Norman-style residence was home to many of Hazle Buck Ewing’s efforts to support the causes of education, women’s suffrage, and world peace.The manor is a concrete structure with many unique features including a 3-story spiral staircase and concrete ceilings. The manor is only 20 feet wide to capture the cross breezes for cooling the home. The local architect Phil Hooten was hired to design this Channel-Normal style residence. This was an architectural style favored by the affluent during the post-Victorian period. Phil Hooten’s design reflects Hazle Buck Ewing’s naturalistic tastes and views. Donated to Illinois State University Foundation upon Mrs. Ewing’s death in 1969, Ewing Cultural Center is now home to the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and the Genevieve Green Gardens.Trained docents will be available to assist visitors through the four floors of the manor. Tours are without charge, but a $5 donation is suggested for the restoration of the manor. The last tour starts at 5:15 p.m.

You’ve studied for the exams, you know your materials, you even tutored your roommates but you got to the exam hall and you just blanked out. You could not remember anything!! Test Anxiety is common to many students. While everyone feels some degree of anxiety during tests or exams, it becomes an issue when anxiety makes you feel anxious, ill, or develop brain freeze during an exam or test. This interactive workshop will explore the issue of anxiety from the students’ perspectives, what it is, and how to overcome it. Call 309-438-7100 or stop by the Visor Center to sign up!*Note: this workshop will take place online via Zoom.

ISU Bassoon Studio Performing selected works.For additional information contact Professor Galina Kiep (309) 438-8240

Multiple-choice, essay, true/false, or short answer? This interactive workshop is designed to discuss strategies for creating your own study tools to prepare before your test, during a test, and how to respond after a test. Call 309-438-7100 or stop by the Visor Center to sign up!*Note: this workshop will take place online via Zoom.

Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in the lobby of Central Illinois Regional Airport (CIRA).Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery information and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/airport-gallery/.For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office.*Exhibition Reception: Wednesday, October 22, 2025, from 5-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice.

September 9, 16, 23, 30 (Tuesdays) 9:30-11:30 amAttend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal            ORWatch Online via ZoomFEES:$35 for Senior Professional members (includes all four sessions)$45 for non-members (includes all four sessions)For in-person participation, pricing is per person.For Zoom participation, pricing is one registration per household.Price includes:Four 2-hour sessions (one Academy of Seniors class).$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the start of the class(es) and again on the day of each session.L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is considered to be the great American fairy tale. The children’s novel remains popular and is regularly revised and reinterpreted for contemporary audiences.September 9: L. Frank Baum and his Wonderful Wizard of OzThis session will provide an overview of the life and multi-faceted career of Baum as an actor, author, and early filmmaker as well as the Baum/Bloomington connection. The class will examine The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the first book in his popular Oz series for children.September 16: Over the Rainbow: MGM film version of The Wizard of OzWe will consider the various ways Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz modified Baum’s novel into a family film that made Judy Garland, as Dorothy, and Margaret Hamilton, as the Wicked Witch of the West, iconic movie characters.September 23: The Dark Versions of OzThis session will examine adaptations of Oz that are geared for adolescent and adult readers focusing on Philip José Farmer’s science fiction, A Barnstormer in Oz (1982), and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), a dystopian representation of Oz.September 30: Defying Gravity: Two Adaptions of Gregory Maguire’s WickedLearn about Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Broadway musical, Wicked (2003), and the Jon Chu’s recent film adaptation (2024) of the long-running Broadway musical. Both versions of Oz are loosely based on Gregory Maguire’s Wicked and trace how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of West, from her point-of-view.Jan Susina, Emeritus Professor of English, Illinois State University

The Illinois State University Alumni Association believes in lifelong learning and career development even after graduation. Take advantage of these free webinars and live streams as they fit into everyday life to continue to learn and grow together as Redbirds. Be sure to register in advance to gain access to the webinar.What if the career advice you’ve been following is fundamentally flawed? If you’re feeling stuck, unfulfilled, or uncertain about your professional direction, this groundbreaking webinar could be the catalyst you need. Please join Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison, co-authors of Your Hidden Genius, who will introduce Career Guidance 3.0—a revolutionary approach that utilizes science and data, rather than outdated assumptions, to unlock your true career potential. Traditional career guidance focuses on interests and personality traits that can shift over time. But what if there were a more reliable compass? Aptitude assessments reveal how your brain is naturally wired to solve problems, collaborate, innovate, and navigate complexity—uncovering talents you may not even realize have career value. Unlike popular tools like the Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, or the Enneagram, which measure preferences, these assessments identify your innate abilities, pointing you toward work that energizes rather than drains you. Whether you’re just starting your career, feeling misaligned in your current role, or considering a complete career change, this session will guide you beyond surface-level preferences to uncover the work you’re naturally designed to excel at. The authors will introduce YouScience, the leading aptitude discovery platform, and share how their book provides 24/7 career guidance through exclusive access codes.

A discussion-based group exploring a book written by graduate student instructors for graduate students, to give wide-ranging concepts of building and sustaining a community to support graduate students navigating teaching at the college level. No registration is necessary—come as you can and leave when you must.