AU Today - Arts

Aurora University’s music department reached another high note with the addition of two new ensembles this past academic year. A mariachi band, Mariachi Las Luces, and the choir group AU Vocal Jazz offer two more opportunities for students to perform. Both ensembles made their concert...

Art has long been a bridge across cultures. This spring, the Schingoethe Center of Aurora University will bring this power to life in “Mapping Territories/Trazando Territorios: The Art of Exile in Pilsen – Chicago.” The exhibition is both timely and meaningful,...

This fall, the Schingoethe Center of Aurora University has been showcasing “Eye to Eye,” an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring works from more than 40 artists across the globe. The show, which remains on display through December, positions portraiture not simply as...

Bestselling author and former White House aide Alejandra Campoverdi met with Aurora University students to talk about the challenges she faced as a first-generation college student who, as she puts it in her memoir, “First Gen,” went “from welfare to the White...

Water shapes us, just as it shapes the world around us—constantly moving, connecting, and inspiring. “Everyone has a personal connection to water, but we often don’t think about it, don’t contemplate the meaning of it,” said Natasha Ritsma,...