Join Kent State University Glauser School of Music students for the Kent Keyboard Series: Students of the Glauser School concert on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. in the Center for the Performing Arts' Ludwig Recital Hall.
Join Director Sarah J. Rogers as she looks at the designs of Virginie Viard who was named Chanel's Creative Director after Karl Lagerfeld passed away in 2019. Viard spent 19 years working alongside Lagerfeld and was, in his words, "...my right hand and left hand." Viard is coming into her own as she steers the storied House through the pandemic and our changing world.
This is an annual event organized jointly by NE Ohio universities and colleges, including Kent State University, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, John Carroll University, Notre Dame College, Cuyahoga Community College, University of Akron, and Youngstown State University. Participating Choose Ohio First teams present posters based on their research projects. The presentations are judged by faculty and other experts.
The abstract submission deadline is February 25th.
School of Art
Connection Resumed... BFA 2020 Payto and Crawford Galleries January 25 - February 24, 2022 B.F.A. alumni show their work from their spring 2020 thesis exhibitions. Featuring: Sommer Bonfiglio, Courtney Donovan, Megan Taylor, Steven Edwards, Noah Gfell, Diana Harper, Christopher Jackson, Michelle Pokorny, Zhan Lou, and Jacob Sagan. Free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Tues. - Thurs. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Galleries are located on the first floor of the Center for the Visual Arts (325 Terrace Dr.), adjacent to the main CVA Gallery. ...
School of Art
Tabitha Ott: Imaginarium January 28 - March 5, 2022 KSU Downtown Gallery Artist Reception - Feb. 25, 5-7 p.m. Artist Talk - Tabitha Ott Friday, Feb. 25 @ noon Center for the Visual Arts Room 165 Free and open to the public. Tabitha Ott is a metalsmith who currently resides in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She transforms objects and materials that would normally be thought of as waste into wearable art through repurposing and upcycling. By utilizing color, movement, and tactile qualities, she encourages a playful interaction between the wearer/viewer and the artwork. Her goal is to ...
Celebrating Black History Month
Join us for a multimedia exploration of the poignant personal story of poet Mwatabu S. Okantah, ’76, interim chair of the Department of Africana Studies, as he tells the story of self-discovery, healing and transformation rendered in original music and poetry set to music, with keyboard artist Vince Robinson and violinist Annie Fullard.
Dr. Angela Spalsbury, Dean of Kent State University at Geauga and Twinsburg Academic Center, announced those students named to the Fall 2021 President's and Dean's lists. To qualify for the President's List, students must have a 4.0-grade point average and have completed 15 hours during the semester. To qualify for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.40 or more grade point average and have completed 12 or more credit hours for the semester. Congratulations! President's List Kaitlynn Bamler, Twinsburg Cammie Benner, Mantua Robert Carpenter, Warren Abigail Hor...
College of Communication & Information
Movies and television take on a life of their own in the online world, and few know that better than Amber Cocchiola, ’22, a senior in Kent State University’s School of Emerging Media and Technology. After a show or movie is released, dedicated fans flock to the online fanfiction community, Archive of Our Own, to spin their own stories — making changes, improvements, or just building out the imaginary world. Cocchiola saw this fan-created content as an opportunity to find out what fans want from entertainment media, and what the biggest studios like Disney, Netflix, DreamWorks and Warner B...
Dr. Thorsten Schmidt (Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics) will be presenting about his research on building DNA to engineer nanoarchitectures and tools for applications in biophysics, structural biology, nanophotonics and nanomedicine.