Visual Studies at Northeastern University

Congratulations to Max Berger, business administration and design student at Northeastern, and Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar!

‘The victims became the artists.’ New digital exhibition from Northeastern student shows writing was resistance during the Holocaust Through the Oyneg Shabes Archive, Max Berger showcases how Jews used art and writing to resist the dehumanization of the Holocaust.

Students in our ARTH 3000 Graphic Medicine course were featured in a spotlight on the Graphic Medicine website!

Spotlight: Brian Fies, author of Mom’s Cancer, Speaks with Northeastern students [VIDEO] | Graphic Medicine Shared with us by Professor A. David Lewis On February 28, 2025, students in the ARTH 3000 course at Northeastern University had the opportunity to speak directly over Zoom with Brian Fies, the creator of Mom’s Cancer and A Fire Story. This Graphic Medicine course, spearheaded by Professors Hillar...

On Wednesday, February 5, students in Todd Linkner’s Package Design course and Amy Bryzgel’s Contemporary Art + Design course, together with faculty and students from Art + Design, came together to perform Fluxus artist Benjamin Patterson’s 1960 work, “Paper Piece.” For a brief moment, we let go of the stresses of the day and engaged in childlike play and wonder. A good time was had by all!

No paper was harmed in the creation of this performance; all paper was recycled from previous completed paper projects!

Photos by Rongrong Juno Zhu 📷

Stop by the Center for Design this Wednesday at 12:30 and see us perform Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece…or maybe participate!
Poster designed by Todd Linkner

Did you know that library has a board game collection? Our Summer I ARTH 2211 Contemporary Art and Design course spent the afternoon playing games from the collection!

It’s Summer 1 and our students have promised they will ‘not make anymore boring art’!
Re-performance of F John Baldessari’s “I Will Not make Anymore Boring Art” 1971.

Student run exhibition, Thursday, March 28, from 7-11pm at Spark NU, 177 Tremont St, 3rd floor.

Thank you to the folks at for a fantastic tour of The Myth of Normal!

Info Session for Creative Media Students (including Visual Studies/art history) - come to Info and a Slice to find out about course offerings next year!
Wed, March 27, 5PM, Shillman 305

Prof Maura Coughlin will be giving a talk entitled “Ramshackle Housing and the Erasure of Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Fishing Communities” as part of the UCONN College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Marine Sciences Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series on March 5, 2024. Check it out!

Coastal Perspectives Lecture - Mar 5, 2024 | Marine Sciences Ramshackle Housing and the Erasure of Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Fishing Communities Maura Coughlin, Ph.D., Department of Art + Design, Northeastern Univer ...

Students in ARTH2211 Contemporary Art and Design History ’will not make any more boring art’. Reenactment of a piece by John Baldessari.

Thank you to the folks at for the fantastic tour of Forecast Form yesterday. students in ARTH 2211 Contemporary Art + Design thoroughly enjoyed learning about Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990-today. We also took a peek at Word Play!