NWU Students, Staff Enter Art Institute Free Thursday

From Northwestern University

Free admission will once again be granted to Northwestern community members and their guests during “Northwestern Night” at the Art Institute of Chicago, from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

The event is open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff and their guests, and all are encouraged to wear purple to show off their Purple Pride.

Northwestern participants and their guests will be admitted without charge at the Modern Wing entrance on Monroe Street.

Pre-registration is required to attend Thursday night’s event. RSVP to www.facebook.com/events/368391656652037/.

Attendees also will be required to show their WildCARD ID or be a guest of someone from Northwestern with a WildCARD.

Hosted by Northwestern’s Center for Student Involvement, Thursday’s event is part of a recent partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Northwestern Night is made possible by a generous donation from Northwestern alumna Shirley Welsh Ryan (Weinberg ’61), a member of the Art Institute’s board of trustees and wife of Chicago business leader and Northwestern alumnus Patrick Ryan (Kellogg ’59), the former chairman of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees.

Through this partnership, only undergraduate students are granted free admission to the museum during normal museum hours, and have access to all special exhibitions, lectures and programs year-round with their WildCARD IDs.

These dynamic learning opportunities are designed to serve a broad spectrum of audiences and to enhance perception and spur creativity.

The annual “Northwestern Night” is one of the stipulations of that partnership Shirley Ryan funds.

From 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, Northwestern’s Block Museum student docents will give informal, mini-tours of artworks in two Art Institute of Chicago galleries. The topics of the Gallery 105 tour is the spread of Buddhism and booming of the Silk Road.

The Gallery 243 tour will focus on Impressionist painting and Claude Monet.

Visitors can also take a self-guided walking tour of the Art Institute’s Modern Wing focused on sculptures.

To enter a drawing to win free round-trip limo service between the Evanston campus and the Art Institute Thursday night for a group of four, visit Wildcat Connection https://northwestern.collegiatelink.net/organization/csi/calendar/details/519042. (Note the drawing is only open to Northwestern students, staff and faculty with a Wildcat Connection account.)

For more information about the Nov. 13 event, visit the following link on Facebook: bit.ly/nuartnight.