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Block Cinema

Block Cinema at 25: Projecting the Future

Throughout the 2026–27 academic year, The Block Museum of Art will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Block Cinema through a series of screenings, performances, research initiatives, and student-led programs that explore the evolving possibilities of the moving image.

Block Cinema at 25: Projecting the Future

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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is an engine that drives questioning, experimentation, and collaboration across fields of study, with visual arts at the center....

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Stories From The Block

Teresa Montoya speaks to students in Northwestern lecture hall

Teresa Montoya delivers annual Feinberg School of Medicine Carlos Montezuma Lecture on Native Health

noisy digital video screengrab of bandaged woman's face with slits that suggest smiling expression

Collection Spotlight: Gillian Wearing, Video Still (Homage to the Woman with the Bandaged Face)...

Exterior view of Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

At, Through, & Back At You: Student Reflections on The Art of Encounter Symposium at Raclin...

digital screen shows 3D render of Shan Goshorn basket

“What Can You See? What Can’t You See?”: Medill Students Test Emerging 3D Technology at The Block

Four program speakers sit in chairs in front of projected image in Block Auditorium

Diné in Focus Photography Collective: Artist Talk [Video]

photo of young boy standing with outstretched arm holding miniature house on a string

The Block Museum of Art Announces Gift of Fourteen Photographs by Fazal Sheikh Honoring Henry and Le

Leonard Suryajaya addresses Block Museum Student Associates in his studio

“Holding On to Everything”: Sam Habashy ’26 on Student Visit to Leonard Suryajaya’s Studio May 4, 20

Block Museum Student Associate Laurel Anderson stands in front of projected image of Teresa Montoya photograph

Northwestern Water Research Community considers Teresa Montoya’s Photography

Ethan Bledsoe stands in front of painting hanging in The Art Institute gallery

“You Don’t Have to Love It:” Ethan Bledsoe ’26 on Art Institute PartnerFest

Isaac Lageschulte stands in front of painting hanging in The Art Institute

“The Third Thing You Noticed:” Isaac Lageschulte ’27 on Art Institute PartnerFest