AU Today - Arts

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,...

Scores of monarch butterflies filled the walls outside Crimi Auditorium this spring as part of an art installation featuring the print work of 125 artists from Chicago and Michoacán, Mexico. The exhibition, “Mariposa Migrantes” (Migrant Butterflies), explores the...

Aurora University welcomes the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) to the stage of Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. The sensational Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features 15 of the finest...

Aurora University expanded its partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, giving students more opportunities to explore one of the largest museums in the world for free. “There are few better ways to encourage students to think deeply about their world than to give them...