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Rain Wilson directing
February 16, 2024

Artist-in-Residence Rain Wilson is directing a play featuring Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in dialogue. She hopes it will galvanize its audience. As Aurora University’s first artist-in-residence, Wilson has been working to bring a theme to the forefront: voice. So it’s...

Neil Parsons (O'mahk-Pita, Tall Eagle), Untitled (Pueblo Forms #2), 1965
September 21, 2023

“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s” runs Oct. 2 through Dec. 15.

students at the Art Institute looking at paintings
July 31, 2023

Aurora University undergraduate students now have free access to nearly 300,000 works of art at one of the largest museums in the world. As a member of the University Partner Program at the Art Institute of Chicago, AU students have a chance to explore the museum’s vast collection of...

Chorale in Ireland
May 25, 2023

The Aurora University Chorale raised their voices in song across Ireland for a week in May in the first-ever choir tour abroad in the history of the university. The students performed in churches and cathedrals throughout the Emerald Isle, including at St. Mary's Church of the Sloes in Killarney;...

Meet Emily
February 23, 2023

“AU’s Hill Center for Student Success connected me to an internship and a job during my senior year. A career counselor also reviewed my résumé and cover letter, proofread my writing samples, and did a mock interview with me. My internship was with an executive recruiting...