Arts & Culture

Kent State University students model original designs created by Fashion School students during the school’s 2017 spring fashion show.

Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising has once again been named among the nation’s elite.

Pictured are clothing on display as part of the Kent State University Museum's "Fashions of the Forties" exhibit.

The Kent State University Museum presents its "Fashions of the Forties” exhibit that features a variety of different looks that typified the 1940s. The exhibit runs through March 2018.

Traveling Stanzas' kiosks on the Kent Campus feature posters designed by Kent State visual communication design students and alumni, and an audio button, which when pushed reads the poem in the author’s voice.

Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations.

The set of "Family Ties" at Human Race Theatre Company. Photo by Tamara Honesty.

Kent State professor is helping bring a beloved 1980s television series to the stage in the Human Race Theatre Company's world premiere production of "Family Ties."

Kent State fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler's new clothing business, Sultrie, aims to add to the sustainable fashion movement.

Kent State sophomore fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler launched a business that creates a more sustainable, lower carbon-footprint approach to making clothes.

The new ARTshop is open for business in the Kent State Center for the Visual Arts.

The new ARTshop serves as an entrepreneurial laboratory for School of Art students to display and to learn about promoting their artwork.

The Fashion School's NYC Studio Director Young Kim Thanos leads a class. The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation gift will help support the study-away program benefiting fashion school students, including those who study at the NYC Studio.

The gift will fund two initiatives: $1.5 million to endow a chair to support the Fashion School’s director and a matching grant of up to $1 million to support the study-away program.

FS²: Reverie - Kent State's Annual Fashion Show

The Annual Fashion Show, “FS²: Reverie 2017,” highlighted the outstanding talents of the Kent State University Fashion School’s design and merchandising students. Michael Kors was the Presenting Partner for this year's show.