Bring your little ones and witness a gleaming smile grow on their face and a twinkle in their eye when Dragons and Mythical Beasts performs at the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University - Tuscarawas on Saturday, January 28 at 4:00 p.m. Calling all brave heroes! Enter into a magical world of myths and legends in this fantastical new show for the whole family. Unveil a myriad of dark secrets and come face to face with some of the most magnificent monsters and terrifying beasts ever to walk the earth. Take your place among legendary heroes, just don't wake the Dragon… This Olivier ...

The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University has opened a new exhibition, the Biennial Faculty Show. The show features the work of full-time, part-time and emeritus (honored retiree) School of Art faculty. “This is the premier school of art in Ohio now,” said Anderson Turner, director of art galleries at Kent State University. “It’s also the leading place where you can get a terminal degree in studio art in Northeast Ohio.” The exhibit, presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council, is as unique as the faculty who produced it, in part because it displays work f...

The Wick Poetry Center is utterly delighted to announce that Cornelius Eady has selected Arlene Keizer’s manuscript, “Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black” as the winner of the 2022 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Dr. Keizer will read together on the Kent State University campus Cornelius Eady in the fall of 2023.   Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean-American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual art of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing...

John "Jack" Graham December 7, 2022 in Memoriam John R. Graham passed away on December 5, 2022 at the age of 82. Jack, as he was known to all, was one of the pre-eminent figures in personality assessment. He was a longtime SPA member who embraced all assessment procedures, provided they were empirically supported. Jack always hued closely to the data and conveyed those values to his students and the attendees of his workshops. His monumental achievements were recognized by SPA in 2015 when he received the society’s Bruno Klopfer Award, honoring his lifetime of active and im...