Visual and Performing Arts College, 1957+ | Northern Illinois University

Collection Overview

Title: Visual and Performing Arts College, 1957+

Predominant Dates:1957-1997

ID: RHC/UA/27/

Extent: 28.75 Linear Feet

Arrangement: The College of Visual and Performing Arts record group consists of two series: college records and department records. The department records are arranged alphabetically.

Date Acquired: 00/00/1965

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The College of Visual and Performing Arts record group consists of two series: college records and department records. The department records are arranged alphabetically. There is also a substantial addendum of programs for art exhibitions, music and theater performances.

The college records consist of college council/senate minutes (1973-1985); curriculum committee minutes (1965+); records for the Artist Series Board, Artrain, Committee for Arts and Cultural Programs; costume files for university plays and dance programs from (1966-1998); and correspondence with departments and on various topics. Although the Departments of Home Economics and Industry & Technology are no longer in this college, there is some correspondence concerning their programs (1960-1964). Except for accreditation reports from 1980-1981, the department records are very scant and primarily contain newsletters, pamphlets and circulars. One folder containing College Council Meeting Minutes (1965-1969) is located in UA 26, Box 2, Folder 17. More information on the history of the College of Visual and Performing Arts may be found in other University Archives record series.

Collection Historical Note

In July 1959 the university established the College of Fine and Applied Arts containing the Departments of Art, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, Music, and Business. The Department of Business was fragmented in 1960 and established as the College of Business in 1961. On December 4, 1973 the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved the establishment of the College of Visual and Performing Arts composed of the Departments of Art, Music, and Theater Arts (formerly in the Department of Speech). Home Economics and Industrial Arts were transferred to the new College of Professional Studies.

As early as 1899 the College offered courses in drawing. It was not until 1921 that the administration formed a Department of Fine Arts. This was reorganized as the Department of Art in July 1958. Music also had an early start. Music is listed in the first catalog although a music teacher was not employed until the Fall of 1901. After becoming a department in 1921, Music offered only a special four year program until 1950. On July 6, 1972 the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved a proposal requesting the separation of the theater component from the Department of Speech to create a Department of Theater with responsibility for majors at the bachelors and masters level. When moved to the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Theater Arts established a dance division which previously had been offered in the Department of Physical Education for Women. In August 1999 the School of Theatre Arts became the School of Theatre and Dance.

Administrative Information

Repository: Northern Illinois University

Access Restrictions: There are no restrictions on access to the records.

Use Restrictions: Literary rights are dedicated to the public.

Acquisition Method: The University Archives acquired the College of Visual and Performing Arts in several installments beginning in the mid-1960's.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series I: College Records],
[Series II: Departmental Records],
[Addendum 1],
[Addendum 2: Art, Music, Theater and Dance Programs],
[All]

Series II: Departmental Records

Subject Files 1: Art

Box 9

Folder 1: History
Folder 2: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1963-1964
Folder 3: Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1964-1965
Folder 4: Correspondence, 1962-1975
Folder 5-8: Bulletin, 1963-1982, 1989
Folder 9: Fine Arts Festival, News Releases, 1968-1972
Folder 10: N.A.S.A. Accreditation Report, 1969
Folder 11: Artifacts, Art Alumni Newsletter, (1988-1999)

Box 10A

Folder 1: Art Alumni, (1963-1976)
Folder 2: Course Materials, 1954-1959
Folder 3: Project E-37 Report, 1965
Folder 4: Liakos Lecture Series, 1968-1979
Folder 5: High School Students Art Festival, 1964, 1965
Folder 6: Workshops and Seminars, (1964-1980)
Folder 7: Pamphlets and Circulars, (1968-2001)

Box 10B

Folder 1: Kappa Pi (Art Honorary): Photos, 1947-1950's
Oversize 1: Kappa Pi (Art Honorary): Scrapbook, 1947-1950's

Subject Files 2: Music

Box 11

Folder 1: History
Folder 2: Minutes, 1962-1967
Folder 3: Program Proposal, 1963
Folder 4: Policies, Requirements, Handbooks, 1962, 1971-1973
Folder 5: Newsletter, 1948, 1989-1990
Folder 6-7: News Releases, 1972-1975
Folder 8: Calendar of Events, 1961-1982
Folder 9: School of Music Bulletin, 1987-1989

Box 12

Folder 1: Student Handbooks, Band, 1963-1971
Folder 2: Treble Clef Club, (1902-1921), 1943, 1954
Folder 3: Workshops and Clinics, 1962-1975
Folder 4: Pamphlets and Circulars, 1963-1981

Subject Files 3: Theater Arts

Box 12

Folder 5: Proposal for the Department, 1967

Box 13

Folder 1: Newsletter, 1972-1979, 1982, 1990-1992
Folder 2: Players Magazine, 1968-1970
Folder 3: Theater Week Programs, 1976
Folder 4: American College Theater Festival, 1968-1970
Folder 5: Information Literature, (1971-1980)
Folder 6: Dance Division: Program Announcement, no date
Folder 7: Dance Division: Programs, (1973-1979), no date
Folder 8: Dance Division: Repertory Dance Company Programs, 1977-1979

Box 14

Folder 1: Costume Files (1966-1998): A . . . My Name is Alice, Spring 1991
Folder 2: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Adding Machine, Spring 1975
Folder 3: Costume Files (1966-1998): After the Fall, Fall 1985
Folder 4: Costume Files (1966-1998): Agnes of God, Fall 1985
Folder 5: Costume Files (1966-1998): Albert Herring, Fall 1981
Folder 6: Costume Files (1966-1998): Album, no date
Folder 7: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Alchemist, Spring 1967
Folder 8: Costume Files (1966-1998): Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Spring 1967
Folder 9: Costume Files (1966-1998): Alice in Wonderland, Spring 1973
Folder 10: Costume Files (1966-1998): All my Sons, Fall 1987
Folder 11: Costume Files (1966-1998): Ameliorations, Fall 1973
Folder 12: Costume Files (1966-1998): And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Fall 1975
Folder 13: Costume Files (1966-1998): Antigone, Spring 1989
Folder 14: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Apple Tree, no date
Folder 15: Costume Files (1966-1998): Arms and the Man, Spring 1979
Folder 16: Costume Files (1966-1998): Arms and the Man, Fall 1996
Folder 17: Costume Files (1966-1998): Arsenic and Old Lace, Fall 1974
Folder 18: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Balcony, Spring 1970
Folder 19: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Ballad of Charlie Sweetlegs Vine, Fall 1975
Folder 20: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Bald Soprano/The American Dream, Fall 1986
Folder 21: Costume Files (1966-1998): Benefactors, Fall 1993
Folder 22: Costume Files (1966-1998): Bent, Spring 1985
Folder 23: Costume Files (1966-1998): Between Daylight and Boonville, Spring 1990
Folder 24: Costume Files (1966-1998): Beyond Therapy, Fall 1983
Folder 25: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Birds, Spring 1971
Folder 26: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Birthday Party, Fall 1969
Folder 27: Costume Files (1966-1998): Blithe Spirit, Spring 1978
Folder 28: Costume Files (1966-1998): Blues for Mr. Charlie, Fall 1971
Folder 29: Costume Files (1966-1998): Born Yesterday, Spring 1980
Folder 30: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Boyfriend, Fall 1976
Folder 31: Costume Files (1966-1998): Boys in the Band, Fall 1971
Folder 32: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Brig, Fall 1969
Folder 33: Costume Files (1966-1998): Brighton Beach Memoirs, Fall 1987
Folder 34: Costume Files (1966-1998): Buried Child, Spring 1988
Folder 35: Costume Files (1966-1998): Butley, Fall 1977
Folder 36: Costume Files (1966-1998): Cabaret, Fall 1982
Folder 37: Costume Files (1966-1998): Cabbages and Kings, Spring 1976
Folder 38: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Cage, Fall 1984
Folder 39: Costume Files (1966-1998): Candida, Spring 1980
Folder 40: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Caretaker, Fall 1978
Folder 41: Costume Files (1966-1998): Carnival, Fall 1987
Folder 42: Costume Files (1966-1998): Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fall 1972
Folder 43: Costume Files (1966-1998): Celebration, Summer 1973
Folder 44: Costume Files (1966-1998): Charley's Aunt, Spring 1972
Folder 45: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Cherry Orchard, Fall 1978
Folder 46: Costume Files (1966-1998): Close Ties, Fall 1982
Folder 47: Costume Files (1966-1998): Come Back After the Fire, Spring 1972
Folder 48: Costume Files (1966-1998): Company, Spring 1979
Folder 49: Costume Files (1966-1998): A Company of Wayward Saints, Spring 1975
Folder 50-52: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Country Wife, Spring 1982; Fall 1995

Box 15

Folder 1: Costume Files (1966-1998): Cries From the Mammal House, Spring 1986
Folder 2: Costume Files (1966-1998): Crimes of the Heart, Fall 1986
Folder 3: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Crucible, Spring 1968
Folder 4: Costume Files (1966-1998): Death of a Salesman, Summer 1971
Folder 5: Costume Files (1966-1998): A Delicate Balance, Spring 1976
Folder 6: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Devil's Disciple, Spring 1973
Folder 7: Costume Files (1966-1998): Diary of Anne Frank, Spring 1996
Folder 8: Costume Files (1966-1998): Die Fledermaus, Spring 1971
Folder 9: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Diviners, Spring 1989
Folder 10: Costume Files (1966-1998): Dr. Faustus, Spring 1973
Folder 11: Costume Files (1966-1998): Dutchman, Fall 1978
Folder 12: Costume Files (1966-1998): East Lynne, Spring 1976
Folder 13-14: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Spring 1973, 1986
Folder 15: Costume Files (1966-1998): Emperor Jones, Fall 1975
Folder 16: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Endgame, Spring 1973
Folder 17: Costume Files (1966-1998): Enrico IV, Fall 1970
Folder 18: Costume Files (1966-1998): Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Fall 1971
Folder 19: Costume Files (1966-1998): Equus, Spring 1983
Folder 20: Costume Files (1966-1998): Everything in the Garden, Spring 1974
Folder 21: Costume Files (1966-1998): Execution of Justice, Spring 1989
Folder 22: Costume Files (1966-1998): Exit the King, Summer 1970
Folder 23: Costume Files (1966-1998): Fences, Spring 1996
Folder 24: Costume Files (1966-1998): Figaro's Marriage, Fall 1966
Folder 25: Costume Files (1966-1998): Final Rehearsal, Fall 1990
Folder 26: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Foreigner, Spring 1988
Folder 27: Costume Files (1966-1998): Fortune and Men's Eyes, Fall 1977
Folder 28: Costume Files (1966-1998): Frankie and Johnny at the Clare de Lune, Spring 1994
Folder 29: Costume Files (1966-1998): Gemini, Fall 1981
Folder 30: Costume Files (1966-1998): Ghosts, Spring 1981
Folder 31: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Gingerbread Lady, Fall 1980
Folder 32: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Girl from Maxim's, Spring 1981
Folder 33-34: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Glass Menagerie, Summer 1979, Spring 1989
Folder 35: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Good Doctor, Spring 1982
Folder 36: Costume Files (1966-1998): Grand Old Flag, Spring 1969
Folder 37: Costume Files (1966-1998): Grease, Fall 1985
Folder 38: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Great Gatsby, Fall 1980
Folder 39: Costume Files (1966-1998): Gypsy, Summer 1980
Folder 40: Costume Files (1966-1998): Hamlet, Fall 1968
Folder 41: Costume Files (1966-1998): Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Summer 1980
Folder 42: Costume Files (1966-1998): Harry, Prince of Dreams, Summer 1973
Folder 43: Costume Files (1966-1998): Hedda Gabler, Spring 1978
Folder 44-45: Costume Files (1966-1998): Hello, Dolly!, Fall 1989
Folder 46: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Homecoming, Fall 1972
Folder 47: Costume Files (1966-1998): Horror Scope, Summer 1969
Folder 48: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Hostage, Fall 1971
Folder 49: Costume Files (1966-1998): Hot l Baltimore, Spring 1977
Folder 50: Costume Files (1966-1998): The House of Bernarda Alba, Spring 1998
Folder 51-52: Costume Files (1966-1998): House of Blue Leaves, Spring 1973, Fall 1978
Folder 53: Costume Files (1966-1998): How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Spring 1978
Folder 54: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Ice Man Cometh, Fall 1968
Folder 55: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Imaginary Invalid, Fall 1972
Folder 56: Costume Files (1966-1998): Indians, Spring 1973
Folder 57: Costume Files (1966-1998): Independent Female, Spring 1977
Folder 58: Costume Files (1966-1998): Interviews, Fall 1979
Folder 59: Costume Files (1966-1998): In the Service of Others, Fall 1984
Folder 60: Costume Files (1966-1998): Ionesco-Bald Soprano/Chairs, Spring 1974

Box 16

Folder 1: Costume Files (1966-1998): Jane, Spring 1970
Folder 2: Costume Files (1966-1998): John Brown's Body, Fall 1966
Folder 3: Costume Files (1966-1998): Julius Caesar, Spring 1995
Folder 4: Costume Files (1966-1998): Jungle Book, Spring 1993
Folder 5: Costume Files (1966-1998): K2, Fall 1989
Folder 6: Costume Files (1966-1998): Killing of Sister George, Fall 1980
Folder 7: Costume Files (1966-1998): Kiss me, Kate, Spring 1972
Folder 8: Costume Files (1966-1998): La Perichole, Spring 1969
Folder 9: Costume Files (1966-1998): Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Summer 1978
Folder 10: Costume Files (1966-1998): Laundry & Bourbon/Lone Star, Fall 1988
Folder 11-12: Costume Files (1966-1998): La vie Parisienne, Fall 1984
Folder 13-14: Costume Files (1966-1998): Lion in Winter, Fall 1977, 1994
Folder 15: Costume Files (1966-1998): Lisa & David, Spring 1972
Folder 16: Costume Files (1966-1998): Little Mary Sunshine, Spring 1986
Folder 17: Costume Files (1966-1998): Little Murders, Fall 1974
Folder 18-19: Costume Files (1966-1998): Lysistrata, Spring 1975, Fall 1997
Folder 20: Costume Files (1966-1998): Macbeth, Spring 1980
Folder 21: Costume Files (1966-1998): Male Animal, Spring 1968
Folder 22: Costume Files (1966-1998): Man for all Seasons, Spring 1972
Folder 23: Costume Files (1966-1998): Man of Destiny, Fall 1980
Folder 24: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Man who Came to Dinner, Spring 1983
Folder 25: Costume Files (1966-1998): A Man's a Man, Spring 1972
Folder 26-27: Costume Files (1966-1998): Marat/Sade, Spring 1980
Folder 28: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Marriage of Figaro, Fall 1979
Folder 29: Costume Files (1966-1998): Marvin's Room, Spring 1997
Folder 30: Costume Files (1966-1998): Master Harold . . . And the Boys, Spring 1987
Folder 31: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Medium, Spring 1987
Folder 32-33: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Merry Wives of Windsor, Spring 1980
Folder 34: Costume Files (1966-1998): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summer 1972
Folder 35: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Mikado, Fall 1972
Folder 36: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Misanthrope, Spring 1978
Folder 37: Costume Files (1966-1998): Misalliance, Fall 1984
Folder 38: Costume Files (1966-1998): Mother Courage, 1984
Folder 39: Costume Files (1966-1998): Multi-Mime, Summer 1971-72
Folder 40-41: Costume Files (1966-1998): Much Ado About Nothing, Fall 1969, Spring 1993
Folder 42: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Fall 1970
Folder 43: Costume Files (1966-1998): Noah, Spring 1968

Box 17

Folder 1: Costume Files (1966-1998): Noises Off, Spring 1989
Folder 2: Costume Files (1966-1998): Norman is that You?, Summer 1978
Folder 3-4: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Odd Couple, Spring 1976, 1994
Folder 5: Costume Files (1966-1998): Oedipus Rex, Spring 1979
Folder 6: Costume Files (1966-1998): Oh, What a Lovely War, no date
Folder 7-8: Costume Files (1966-1998): Oklahoma!, Fall 1980, 1986
Folder 9: Costume Files (1966-1998): Old Times, Spring 1977
Folder 10: Costume Files (1966-1998): Oliver!, Fall 1986
Folder 11: Costume Files (1966-1998): On Golden Pond, Fall 1981
Folder 12-14: Costume Files (1966-1998): Opera Workshop, Fall 1971, Spring 1975, Fall 1976
Folder 15: Costume Files (1966-1998): Ordinary People, Fall 1988
Folder 16-17: Costume Files (1966-1998): Peter Pan, 1975, Summer 1989
Folder 18: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Physicists, Fall 1979
Folder 19: Costume Files (1966-1998): Prelude to a Kiss, Spring 1996
Folder 20: Costume Files (1966-1998): Portraits FA Festival, Spring 1976
Folder 21: Costume Files (1966-1998): Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Fall 1990
Folder 22: Costume Files (1966-1998): Promenade All, Fall 1977
Folder 23: Costume Files (1966-1998): Promises, Promises, Spring 1977
Folder 24: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Prophets, Spring 1974
Folder 25: Costume Files (1966-1998): Public Eye/Day Whores Came out to Play Tennis, Spring 1977
Folder 26: Costume Files (1966-1998): Quilters, Spring 1988
Folder 27: Costume Files (1966-1998): A Raisin in the Sun, Spring 1995
Folder 28: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Real Inspector Hound, Fall 1976
Folder 29: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Reluctant Dragon, Spring 1972
Folder 30: Costume Files (1966-1998): Reynard the Fox, no date
Folder 31: Costume Files (1966-1998): Rimers of Eldritch, Spring 1987
Folder 32: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Rivals, Spring 1986
Folder 33: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Rogue's Trial, Fall 1971
Folder 34: Costume Files (1966-1998): Romeo and Jeannette, Fall 1980
Folder 35: Costume Files (1966-1998): Romeo and Juliet, Spring 1985
Folder 36: Costume Files (1966-1998): Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Spring 1975
Folder 37: Costume Files (1966-1998): The Royal Game, Spring 1978
Folder 38: Costume Files (1966-1998): Saint Joan, Spring 1970
Folder 39: Costume Files (1966-1998): Say Goodnight, Gracie, Spring 1984
Folder 40: Costume Files (1966-1998): Scapin, Fall 1987
Folder 41: Costume Files (1966-1998): Seagull Bible, Spring 1987
Folder 42: Costume Files (1966-1998): Shakespeare and the Indians, Fall 1983
Folder 43: Costume Files (1966-1998): Shakespeare's Lovers, Spring 1978
Folder 44: Costume Files (1966-1998): Shepard One Acts, Spring 1977
Folder 45: Costume Files (1966-1998): Six Characters in Search of an Author, Spring 1968
Folder 46: Costume Files (1966-1998): Sizwe Banse is Dead, Fall 1984
Folder 47: Costume Files (1966-1998): Small Craft Warnings, Fall 1974
Folder 48: Costume Files (1966-1998): Something's Afoot/Charley's Aunt, Summer 1988
Folder 49: Costume Files (1966-1998): Stepping Out, Spring 1990

Box 18

Folder 1: Story Theatre, Summer 1976
Folder 2: Strange Snow, Fall 1987
Folder 3: Streamers, Summer 1979
Folder 4-6: A Streetcar Named Desire, Fall 1971, 1986, 1997
Folder 7: Superman, no date
Folder 8: Sweet Betsy from Pike/A Hand of Bridge, Fall 1972
Folder 9: The System, Fall 1977
Folder 10: Talking With, Spring 1985
Folder 11: Talley's Folly, no date
Folder 12: Tango, Spring 1971
Folder 13: The Tempest, Fall 1976
Folder 14: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Spring 1972
Folder 15: Three Men on a Horse, Fall 1973
Folder 16: Threepenny Opera, Fall 1992
Folder 17: The Thrilling Life of a Circus Performer May One Day be Yours, Fall 1976
Folder 18: The Time of Your Life, Fall 1975
Folder 19: Thurber Carnival, Summer 1975
Folder 20: Toys in the Attic, Spring 1979
Folder 21-22: The Trojan Women, Spring 1975, 1994
Folder 23: Twelfth Night, Spring 1988
Folder 24: Twigs, Fall 1983
Folder 25: Two for the Seesaw, Summer 1977
Folder 26: Uncle Vanya, Fall 1977
Folder 27: Vanities, Spring 1979
Folder 28: A View from the Bridge, Spring 1981
Folder 29: The Wager, Fall 1976
Folder 30: Waiting for Godot, Spring 1997
Folder 31: Waiting for the Parade, no date
Folder 32: Wait Until Dark, no date
Folder 33: West Side Story, Fall 1988
Folder 34: What the Butler Saw, Fall 1977
Folder 35-37: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fall 1967, 1973, 1985
Folder 38: Who's Happy Now?, Fall 1983
Folder 39: Women at Love, Fall 1979
Folder 40: Women of the Trojan War, Spring 1983
Folder 41: World of Carl Sandburg, Summer 1977
Folder 42: You Can't Take it With You, Spring 1977
Folder 43: Miscellaneous Dance Files, 1969-1983
Folder 44: Dance, 1977-1981
Folder 45-60: Dance Concerts, 1981-1997
Folder 61: BTW, 1973-1985

Box 19

Folder 1: Children's Theatre, 1973-1984
Folder 2: Make-up, 1981
Folder 3: Opera Workshop, 1975
Folder 4: Oral Interpretation, 1979
Folder 5: Playmaker's Workshop, 1971
Folder 6: TOW, 1981
Folder 7-19: Costume Budgets, 1969-1982

Box 20

Folder 1-15: Costume Budgets, 1982-1998
Folder 16-18: Petty Cash, 1987-1991

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