KENT, Ohio – The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University is pleased to announce a new exhibition, the Kent Blossom Art Intensives Exhibition. Featuring the work of visiting artists and resident faculty working in ceramics, glass, painting, and textiles. The Kent Blossom Art Intensives Exhibition will be on display May 17 – June 9, 2023, at the CVA Gallery located in the Center for the Visual Arts, 325 Terrace Drive, Kent, Ohio. There will be a reception on Friday, May 26 from 4-6 p.m. Featured artists include by media: ceramics: Resident Faculty, Peter C...
The latest exhibit in the DI HUB might make you a bit emotional. The Stories Connecting Generations exhibit features 23 projects from the namesake class that pairs sociology and visual communication design students with an older adult partner, usually a resident of an area senior center, who they build a relationship with throughout the semester. At the end, they are tasked with transforming the life experiences of their partner into a visual design. “We talked early on that it's almost impossible to represent a person's entire life,” said Jessica Barness, professor in the School of Visu...
A literature professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, is wrapping up a year as a visiting scholar at Kent State University with hopes of creating an exchange program between the two schools based on their historic campus tragedies. Before he leaves the Kent Campus at the end of June, Yeonmin Kim, Ph.D., ’13, hopes to have plans in place for a continued exchange of students between the two universities, to further the understanding and legacies of May 4, 1970, at Kent State and May 18, 1980, at Chonnam. On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened ...
Angelina DiFranco started dancing when she was just three years old and wearing a diaper under her leotard. “I was terrified of my dance teacher,” DiFranco joked. "No, she's great." She got her start at Starship Dance Studio in Guilford, Connecticut, about 90 miles from Lincoln Center in New York City. She knew she wanted to be a professional dancer when she got ‘en pointe’ at 10 years old. Her lifelong dream came true in September of 2022 when she got to perform at Lincoln Center’s Big Umbrella Festival. For DiFranco, a graduating senior honors student who double-majored in Dance...
Connecting the Story of May 4 to Today’s HeadlinesThe May 4 Visitors Center (M4VC) is observing its 10th anniversary this spring. Following a “soft” opening in fall 2012, the center was officially dedicated as part of the May 4 Commemoration in 2013.The center was created through the efforts and passion of Laura Davis, BA ’73, MA ’76, PhD ’87, Professor Emerita of English, and Carole Barbato, BS ’71, MA ’75, PhD ’94, professor of communication studies, who both were Kent State students in spring 1970. Davis was an eyewitness to the May 4 shootings. Barbato, who died in 2014, wrote severa...
