AU Today - Arts
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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](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/au-chorale-journeys-to-ireland_800x600.jpg)
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...
![Meet Emily](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/220413_Emily VB-46 copy_800x600.jpg)
“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...
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What does home mean to you? Aurora University poses that question in a new museum exhibition that explores the concept of home. The Schingoethe Center of Aurora University’s “No Place Like Home” features artwork by 38 artists, including Theaster Gates,...
![Ric Larsen building a guitar.](https://aurora.edu/_files/img/blog/au-today/ric-larsen-800x600.jpg)
What makes an instrument more than just the sum of its parts? Richard Larsen, an instructor of classical guitar, is continuously exploring that question. Larsen has hand-built more than 40 classical guitars since 2018, each taking about 150 hours to create. “I put on some music in the...