Arts & Entertainment
SUKEINA: the Light of Omar Salam
The Kent State University Museum is honored to host the first museum exhibition in the United States dedicated to the work of the brand Sukeina founded by Omar Salam. While his family’s origins go back to Senegal in West Africa, Salam lived around Europe before coming to New York City to study at Parsons School of Design for a degree in fashion.
Aggregate, reception
Willie Cole, reception and artist talk
Veroni Lecture: Cheshire Calhoun
Snapshots in Time: The Lives of Four Students
Holiday Sale
Veroni Lecture: Stephen Markley
Reception: prayer flags, by Jillian Sokso
Lecture and reception: Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females—Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
The Kent State University Museum is proud to announce a special exhibition of over 100 photographs entitled, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture.” The images spanning the 20th and 21st centuries explore the ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, video, fashion and advertising.