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Designers of Fashionable Prosthesis Covers to Speak at Kent State Museum
The Kent State University Fashion School and Museum will host a lecture by the ALLELES Design Studio team in connection with the museum’s current exhibition “(dis)ABLED BEAUTY: The Evolution of Beauty, Disability and Ability.” The lecture, with remarks by ALLELES Art Director McCauley Wanner and Tec…
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Revisit Iconic 1980s Fashions at Kent State Museum
The Kent State University Museum will highlight the lively and extravagant fashions of the 1980s in an upcoming exhibit. “The 1980s: An Age of Excess” opens Friday, February 3 in the museum’s Broadbent Gallery and is co-curated by Museum Director Jean Druesedow and Victoria Haworth, a senior fa…
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Alumni Spotlight - Katlin Rothacher
Katlin Rothacher earned her B.F.A. with a concentration in Textiles from Kent State University’s School of Art in 2010. Katlin has been returning to Kent State during summers and winter breaks periodically to work with our Jacquard loom in the Textiles studio while attending grad school in Geo…
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Schedule of Events for "Magical Designs for Mozart's 'Magic Flute'"
The Kent State University Museum celebrates "Magical Designs for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'" — open through January 8, 2017 — with a series of tie-in events highlighting Mozart's opera and the artists who have interpreted it. October 2 at 3 p.m. Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Fl…
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KSU Metalsmiths featured in ALLOY
The upcoming exhibition, ALLOY: From Art to Artifact, will include spoons made by current School of Art Lecturer in Jewelry/Metals/Enameling, Rachel Smith, current J/M/E undergrad, Larry Staats, and almuna from the J/M/E MFA program, Corey Ackelmire. The exhibition will on view from Oct. …
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Mahwish Chishty Designs Central Scenic Element for GROUNDED
Assistant Professor in Foundations, Mahwish Chishty, is designing a central scenic element for the Company of Fools production of GROUNDED by award-winning playwright George Brant. The play will run Sept. 28-Oct. 13 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey, Idaho. "I am delighted to be collab…
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Mahwish Chishty - Solo Exhibition at IWM London
Assistant Professor in Foundations, Mahwish Chishty, will have a solo exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London from October 19, 2016 through March 19, 2017. Chishty’s work combines silhouettes of military drones with decorative Pakistani folk art patterns to highlight the way in which t…
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Breanne Trammell Selected for Juror's Award in "Stand Out Prints"
Breanne Trammell, Assistant Professor in Print Media, has been selected for a Juror's Award for her print "Bad As I Wanna Be (Cheetah)" (below). The annual international juried exhibition Stand Out Prints is located at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN. Se…
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Porthouse Will Seize the Day and Light Up the Night in 2017
Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will celebrate its 49th season with productions of “9 to 5,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and “Newsies.” Directed by Porthouse producing artistic director Terri Kent, “9…
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Gianna Commito at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
Associate Professor in painting, Gianna Commito will be showing her work in the group exhibition "New Geometries" at the Feisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. The show will run from September 15 through November 12, 2016. (Image: Gianna Commito - Nepp, 2014, casein and marble dust …
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