Arts & Culture

Clothes from exhibit

The Kent State University Museum opened a new exhibition titled “Life in Style: The Wardrobe of James Mulholland.” Sarah Rogers, director of the museum, spoke to WJW-Fox 8 about the exhibition.

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A composition of a tapestry, students dancing, and a professor talking to students

A combination of powerful art, reflective dance and historical courage are meant to connect and inspire a new generation of heroes. The art exhibition Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein takes residence at Kent State this fall. 

Kent State students explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Students from Kent State New York City Fashion gained inspiration from a visit to New York's Metropolitian Museum of Art.

NYC Fashion students roll their creations to the fashion show venue

Kent State fashion design students hit the streets of New York City before tonight's fashion show. 

Students at the poster sale event in the Kent Student Center

The annual poster sale this week gave students opportunities to add new art to their living spaces. 

barbie dolls grouped together

Lydia Rose, Ph.D., director of Public Relations for the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent and an associate professor of sociology at Kent State University, shares her perspectives on the resurgence of Barbie’s influence on our culture today.

 

Kent State alumnus Preston Mitchum is a member of the cast of Summer House: Martha's Vineyard.

When he was a student at Kent State University, Preston Mitchum, BA ‘08, was heavily involved in student government and other organizations and recalls taking part in a considerable number of campus protests. 

Sound production student

Kent State Media and Journalism assistant professor talks to WFMJ Youngstown’s “21 News at 5” about the opportunities for women in the film industry today, following the record-breaking success of woman-directed Barbie movie.

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School of Music Percussion Camp 2023

High school students come to Kent State each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.

Farnaz Fatemi, Poet Laureate Fellow, of Santa Cruz County, California, in partnership with Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center and several local Santa Cruz County organizations, will produce a series of nine monthly pop-up teen poetry workshops.

Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the Kent State University Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.