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What a great accomplishment! Congratulations Maggie!

NSU sophomore Maggie Kruger has made history as the first student in Northern's Filmmaking, Broadcasting and Interactive Media Production program to earn international film festival recognition! 🎬🐺 Her short documentary "The Story Behind the 3 Crosses" was selected for the 3rd ½ Bernardsville Film Festival. We are so proud of you, Maggie!

Learn more: https://nrthn.com/BgeRvf

🌟 Cheers to a successful year in the Fine Arts! See you in September!
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Reminder that tonight (Friday, April 17) marks the reception for the first 2026 spring senior exhibitions! This features work by Aly Lang, Daria Poor, and Ksenia Unser, on view in the Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery and Gallery X from 6–8pm.

In her solo exhibition, Simple Living, Daria Poor examines ideas of family, rural landscape, and an outlook of gratitude and appreciation. Through painted portraits inspired by old family photos she captures the life graciously given to her and her family. These works study and honor the memory and presence of family, joy, and the landscape of the midwest that surrounds them.

In This Space has Potential, Aly Lang explores the visual and cultural significance of everyday materials with focus on preserving and recontextualizing visual culture that is often discarded or overlooked old advertisements, packaging, postcards, receipts, and other everyday printed materials. Seeing these items not as disposable objects, but as media artifacts that document shifts in branding, typography, consumer behavior, and cultural values.

Within Ksenia Unser’s exhibition, Marginalia, she explores concepts of nostalgia, specifically pre-nostalgia, and anxiety. Her work includes photography taken on an old point-and-shot camera and digital collages that are pulled from her own archives of writing. Cinematic and documentary techniques are used to showcase the bittersweet feeling that is pre-nostalgia.

Practical side information to apply when visiting our campus. 😄🐿️💕

Most? Yeah, most. Wanna fight about it? In general, it’s best not to be in contact with any part of a wild animal.
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Let’s be honest, squirrels can be cute and fluffy (if not friend, why friend shaped?) therefore, people don’t usually mind them getting too close. But cuteness fades when a squirrel bites your hand, steals your car keys, and floors it out of the park with all your food in tow. Um, was Grandma in the car?
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We kid about the keys and driving, (that’d be nutty), but animal bites do happen at parks. Best to keep hands and fingers away from heads, tails, paws, teeth, etc. Also, feeding human food to wildlife in national parks is bad for them and can make them fearless around humans and potentially aggressive. Not just the passive kind with a hint of side eye.
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In conclusion, squirrels may not know better, but YOU do. Although it may feel flattering, (well, aren’t you the animal whisperer) if any kind of wildlife approaches you, back away and maintain a safe distance. Help us keep wildlife wild.⁣ Now has anyone seen the car keys?

Learn more tips at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/watchingwildlife/watchingwildlife101.htm

Image: A screenshot of a National Park Service tweet that reads, “Most squirrel bites originate at the front, or “bitey end,” of the squirrel.”

Celebrate creativity this April at NSU! Don't miss our exciting performances and exhibitions! 🎉
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