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opportunity Art. Music. Drama.
When you come to campus, check out our art scene. Visit our website to see what’s happening.
creativity
Fine Arts
and
excellence
Among the more than 500 scholar ships funded by Northwestern alumni and frien ds, 30 are specifically for students involved in the arts.
www.nwciowa.edu/fine-arts
Scholarships
ART • www.nwciowa.edu/art-scholarsh
ips
Students who intend to major in art can apply for Northwestern art scholarships. Award decisions are based on an application and eval uation of a submitted portfolio.
MUSIC • www.nwciowa.edu/music-sc
holarships
Northwestern offers music scholarsh ips to students who either are majo ring in music or who have the potential to make a significant contribution to music at Northwestern, regardles s of major. Award decisions are base d on an application, recommendations and an audition.
THEATRE • www.nwciowa.edu/theatre
-scholarships
Our theatre scholarships are avai lable to all Northwestern students with an interest in one of more areas of theatre (acting, scenery, lighting, costuming, properties, directing, stage or house management). Awa rd decisions are based on an applicatio n, recommendations, and an audi tion or interview.
at a glance
The College
Four-year liberal arts college, bachelor’s degrees awarded n Foun ded in 1882 by the Reformed Church in America n Mem ber of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities n
Excellence honors God.
That philosophy is behind everything we do at Northwe stern, including making art. In the studio. On stage. Back stage. The fine arts at Northwestern are not an education al extra. They’re an important part of all students’ learn ing. For those who make art—and those who experience it. Northwestern students in the arts stay creative throughout their lives. Our graduates include a Chicago gallery owner. Carnegie Hall performer. New York playwright. As artists educated to be courageous and faithful, they understand the value of art for reflecting the worl d. And redeeming it.
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Academics
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More than 80 academic programs, inclu ding majors, minors, pre-professional programs and career concentrations
Faculty
All classes taught by NWC professors 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio n Avera ge class size: 18 n 80 percent of full-time faculty have docto ral or terminal degrees n
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Students
1,250 students 32 states n 20 countries n
different programs of study are avai lable to students majoring in the fine arts; options include majors in graphic arts and music ministry and a new minor in arts administration.
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Student Life
88 percent of students live on campus More than 50 clubs and organizations n More than half of students are in campus ministry and service n 1 out of 3 students participates in the performing arts n 3 men’ s, 3 women’s residence halls n Apar tments, cottages and themed housing n
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Athletics
Great Plains Athletic Conference, NAIA member 1 out of 3 students participates in interc ollegiate sports n 6 natio nal NAIA team titles since 2001 n 8 men’ s, 8 women’s Red Raider varsity teams n
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Northwestern College
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Art
Good art searches for, imagines and
Music shows truth
—truth revealed by God’s own art: the crea ted world. If imagery is the way you like to communicate and connect, you’ ll be at home in our art departme nt. Our students share insights. Encourag e expression. And grow as artists through learning to critically evaluate each others’ work—and their own.
Korver Visual Arts Center
It’s moving. Powerful. Transform e in practice Northwestern, we aim for excellenc s and note for and performance. So if love making inue cont you, with d chor a lyrics strikes . stern beautiful music at Northwe
drama
ental ensembles
More than 10 vocal and instrum A cappella Choir Chamber Orchestra Heritage Singers Instrumental chamber ensembles Jazz Band Percussion Ensemble Symphonic Band Women’s Choir Worship teams
perfotroumr
productions A full season of theatre sound. Craft e manage. Or design lighting and
will give you opportunities
to act, direct, produce and stag you experience lty-directed productions will give scenery and costumes. Four facu ts and scrip y orar emp cont to Shakespeare with drama from Sophocles and s playwriting focus is oneram’ prog our And . icals mus premieres of new plays and scripts. use changing the culture starts with of-a-kind for a college our size. Beca
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has studios and artistic tools for exploring ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
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guage. Music is a universal lanative . At
their Our award-winning artists practice craft in award-winning architecture.
DEWITT MUSIC HALL estra, CHRIST CHAPEL AND e accommodates a 100-piece orch
Our 900-seat concert hall stag ert play our New York Steinway conc and performers and accompanists n. DeWitt Music orga pipe n actio er track nk 56-ra grand piano and 45-stop, s, ntal rehearsal rooms, practice room Hall includes choral and instrume and computer lab. oard keyb c troni elec an and ios, classrooms, teaching stud
DEWITT THEATRE ARTS CENTER
stateof any college in Iowa” and includes It’s been called “the best theatre s, shop ume cost and e scen tres, box thea of-the-art proscenium and black and a design studio.
larly. The A cappella Choir and
9 to 12 exhibitions by professional and student artists are hosted in the Te Paske Gallery each year.
3 performance groups tour across the U.S. regu Central and South in Europe and Symphonic Band have performed els include Japan and America. The Drama Ministries Ensemble’s trav Ethiopia.
Theatre
6,000
schoolchildren More than attend our annual Children’s Theatre production.
n’t focus on competition. re with a difference” does Northwestern’s “theatense actor to sound designer from mble. Where every role—
Instead, you’ll be part of a true excellence. The theatre artists serve audiences with to stage manager—is valued. Our s and playwrights. gner desi rs, ents critical acclaim as acto kind that regularly earns our stud reputation as one a have do we But ent. ronm hroat envi Northwestern theatre is not a cut-t tre programs in the country. of the best Christian college thea
stage in a recent World
13 new, student-authored one-act plays took thethwestern. ch event at Nor
Premiere Festival, an annual Mar