Kent State University is offering a community course that deals with the historical, cultural, social and political contexts of events before, during and after the May 4, 1970, shootings. The free course, Making Meaning of May 4: The Kent State Shootings in American History, will be held Oct. 16, 23 and 30 at the university’s May 4 Visitors Center. The three-session course will be taught by Kent State Professor Emerita Laura Davis, Ph.D., a co-creator of the May 4 Visitors Center and May 4 Walking Tour, and Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., chair of Kent State’s Department of Pan-African Studies....
Kent State University celebrated the launch of a dynamic new space, the Design Innovation (DI) Hub, in May that will bring innovations from many disciplines together in a 68,000 square foot building near the center of the Kent Campus. The DI Hub will operate as an open-access collaborative maker and innovation accelerator environment to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and problem-solving capacities. The construction launch, which marks the beginning of a major renovation of the former Art Building, was celebrated on April 23 with a ribbon ceremony, interactive activities and ...
More than 100 attendees participated in Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering’s (CAE) Girls in Aviation Day Saturday at the Kent State Airport. The global event is sponsored by Women in Aviation International (WAI) to introduce and encourage girls to pursue careers in aeronautics and aerospace. The FedEx Aeronautics Academic Center and airplane hangar served as Kent State’s venue, while 118 individual events presented worldwide for the WAI event which reached approximately 20,000 attendees. In addition to the United States, Girls in Aviation Day was celebrated in 18...
The Small Works Juried Exhibition is open to artists worldwide. The exhibition will be on view at the KSU Downtown Gallery (141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio) from January 24 - February 29, 2020.
Deadline for entries is December 7, 2019.
Juror: Gianna Commito
Artists must be 18 years or older.
Artists working in any media are welcome to enter up to three (3), original works of art and up to three per artist will be accepted.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will present its 52nd season during the summer of 2020 with "Little Shop of Horrors," "BKLYN the Musical," and "West Side Story." Directed by Porthouse producing artistic director Terri Kent, "Little Shop of Horrors" opens June 12 and runs through June 27. A preview performance will take place on June 11. With book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, "Little Shop of Horrors" takes audiences to a florist shop on Ski...
Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music and Tuesday Musical, based in Akron, have launched a new series that will bring world-renowned classical musicians to the Kent Campus to work with students. The Tuesday Musical Masterclass Series will also be live streamed to provide increased access to classrooms and homes across Ohio and beyond. Upcoming masterclasses in the new series include composer Gregg Kallor on Oct. 30, pianist Fei Fei on Nov. 20, Escher String Quartet on March 27, and the Junction Trio on April 13 — all also featured during Tuesday Musical’s 2019...
The Wick Poetry Center welcomed poet, playwright and activist Sonia Sanchez to the May Prentice House for a meet and greet with students on Sept. 18. She met with them in the afternoon before giving a lecture in the Kiva in the evening. The Kent State Honors College, the Cleveland Foundation and the Wick Poetry Center cosponsored Sanchez's visit to Kent State. “One of the things I love so much about students is their willingness to dare to do things that people tell them not to do,” Sanchez said. Sanchez said she was happy to be in the Wick Poetry Center, a place, she ...
The Wick Poetry Center kicked off its 2019-20 event series year on September 13 with a celebration of Tommy Freeman’s life. The event was held in Room 120 of the Center for Architecture and Environmental Design with a reception afterward that expanded into the Wick Poetry Center’s Poetry Park. The event had a large turnout, attended mostly by family and close friends of the Freemans, as well as Kent State students and members of the Wick family. Tommy Freeman was a Kent State graduate and avid writer, winner of the 2013 Wick Undergraduate Poetry Scholarship. His love for adventure and...
