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Almost 50 years ago, the shootings of Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard brought to a head the cultural divides that had split the nation. The Kent State University Museum’s exhibition, “Culture/Counterculture: Fashions of the 1960s and ’70s,” opening…
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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from Kent State’s School of…
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The Kent State University Museum’s newest exhibit, “Ohio Quilts”, which opens to the public July 19, features an eclectic group of historical quilts, that in many ways, reflects the history of Ohio dating back to the early nineteenth century.
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The national juried art exhibition, Focus: Fiber 2019 is heading to the Kent State University Museum next month, marking the first new exhibit for the Museum in 2019.
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In December, a group of graduate students from the Kent State Fashion School’s Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S) program, received the opportunity to develop strategic solutions for Target as part of a case study in Fashion School Store director, Dr. Jihyun Kim’s,…
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Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising is once again ranked high among the nation’s elite, according to Fashion-schools.org.
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Countless hours of planning, sewing, stitching and preparation went in the Kent State University Fashion School’s 2018 Annual Fashion Show, “FS2: Alchemy”. The 36th annual event took place on April 27 and 28, in Rockwell Hall on Kent State’s campus. Models strutted the runway…
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The Kent State University Museum held its fifth annual “Fashion Meets the Botanicals” event at the Cleveland Botanical Garden on March 3, 2018. Over 100 guests attended the event, making it the largest crowd the event has ever had.