Workshops
Highlights from the School of Art Collection
Aug. 28 – Sept. 28, 2018
The School of Art Collection and Galleries presents Kent Blossom Art Intensives: The First 10 Years, Highlights from the School of Art Collection. Since 1968, the School of Art has been conducting studio art intensives during the summers where visiting artists travel to Kent State to teach and mentor a select group of students. The School of Art Collection, which consists of over 4,000 artworks, has acquired work by many of these artists over the years.
In this exhibition, artworks by visiting artists who participated during the first decade of the Kent Blossom Art program (1968-1977) will be on display. Artists included in the exhibition are: Philip Pearlstein, Richard Anuszkiewicz, R.B. Kitaj, Nathan Oliveira, Clarence Holbrook Carter, Jack Tworkov, Otto Piene, David Stoltz, Alex Katz, Richard Hunt, Larry Zox, Julian Stanczak, and Adja Yunkers. Join us to celebrate 50 years of Kent Blossom Art Intensives!
The exhibition will be on view at the CVA Gallery from August 28 through September 28, 2018 and is free and open to the public. The CVA Gallery is located in the Center for the Visual Arts at 325 Terrace Drive in Kent, Ohio. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Header image: Alex Katz, Late July 1, ed. 67-120, lithograph, 1971
Image within text: Blossom-Kent Art Program poster, 1969
FASHION MEETS THE BODY is a Juried KSU Faculty Exhibition that will be exhibited in the KSU Museum September 28, 2018 - September 1, 2019. All juried work selected by our two jurors, Rachel Delphia and Margaret Powell from Carnegie Museum of Art relates to the to the theme “Fashion meets the body.” Both individual and collaborative faculty work from The Fashion School and the School of Art including innovative two- and three-dimensional artwork using technology, mixed media, and fiber will be showcased in the exhibition.
Jurors:
Rachel Delphia joined Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) in 2005 and was appointed The Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design and head of department in 2013. Delphia has worked extensively with the museum’s permanent collection of European and American objects from ca. 1750-present; she has a special interest in modern and contemporary design and craft. Her recent exhibitions considered modernist silversmith and mid-century industrial designer Peter Muller-Munk (1904–1967) and Chilean designer Sebastian Errazuriz (b. 1977). Delphia has also served as adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, teaching design history and exhibition design. She received a M.A. from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in Early American Culture as well as a M.A. in English and B.F.A. in industrial design from Carnegie Mellon. Delphia organized CMOA’s 2017 presentation of Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, a project that was co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands. The exhibition was curated by Sarah Schleuning, High Museum of Art, and Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp, Groninger Museum.
Margaret Powell is a decorative arts historian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the curatorial assistant of decorative arts and design at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Smithsonian Associates/Corcoran College of Art and Design M.A. program in the History of Decorative Arts. Her first book, Only the Best, a children’s picture book about the African American fashion designer, Ann Lowe, will be released by Chronicle Books in 2019. She also writes about costume history on her website: www.hiddenfashionhistory.com.
Fashion Meets the Body accepted artists list:
Margarita Benitez
J.R. Campbell
Melissa Campbell
Chanjuan Chen
Tamara Cullen
Paula Dancie
Trista Grieder
David Hahn
Kim Hahn
Ja Young Hwang
Jeanne James
Jihyun Kim
Andrew Kuebeck (Art)
Kendra Lapolla
Archana Mehta
Linda Ohrn-McDaniel
Rhonda Mitchell
Barbara Rhodes
Rachel Smith (Art)
Sara Snyder
Sue Yoder
In observance of Labor Day, Kent State University will be closed Monday, Sept. 5, and will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
- The University Library building will be closed.
- The Warren Student Recreation and Wellness Center will be open on Monday, Sept. 5, but will have modified hours. The facility will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen
Renowned actress, role model, fashion icon, outspoken, independent, and feisty, Katharine Hepburn is listed by the American Film Institute as Hollywood's greatest screen legend. During a career that spanned six decades, Hepburn was nominated 12 times for Academy Awards as Best Actress and won four. Her sense of style influenced countless women, fashion designers, and the informal, elegant approach to American style seen on today's runways.
Organized by Kent State University Museum from its collection, this exhibition features Hepburn's performance clothes from The Philadelphia Story, Without Love, and Coco; screen costumes from such classic films as Stage Door, Adam's Rib, and Long Day's Journey Into Night; and many of her television movies, such as Love Among the Ruins. In addition, Hepburn's "signature look," an ensemble of tailored beige trousers and linen jackets, will be spotlighted, as will vintage posters, playbills, photos, and other Hepburn-related artifacts.
For more information visit the Museum of Arts and Sciences' website.
Join us on select Fridays at the KSU Museum for gallery talks, lectures and conversation.
The first Fashion Focus series will highlight the talent and ideas of KSU art and fashion faculty whose work is exhibited in Fashion Meets the Body, currently on view at KSU Museum. This series is presented in partnership with the KSU School of Fashion Design and Merchandising.
Chanjuan Chen, Tamara Cullen, Paula Dancie, and Jeanne James will each present gallery talks on their fashions in the exhibit.
Free with Museum admission.
Free to KSU Students and Faculty.
Join us on select Fridays at the KSU Museum for gallery talks, lectures and conversation.
The first Fashion Focus series will highlight the talent and ideas of KSU art and fashion faculty whose work is exhibited in Fashion Meets the Body, currently on view at KSU Museum. This series is presented in partnership with the KSU School of Fashion Design and Merchandising.
Margarita Benitez, Andrew Kuebeck, and Rachel Smith will discuss their unique integration of various technologies in their work and research.
Free with Museum admission.
Free to KSU Students and Faculty.
Join us on select Fridays at the KSU Museum for gallery talks, lectures and conversation.
The first Fashion Focus series will highlight the talent and ideas of KSU art and fashion faculty whose work is exhibited in Fashion Meets the Body, currently on view at KSU Museum. This series is presented in partnership with the KSU School of Fashion Design and Merchandising.
David Hahn, Kim Hahn, and Ja Young Hwang will explore their individual approaches to collaboration as well as how they collaborate with one another.
Free with Museum admission.
Free to KSU Students and Faculty.
Join us on select Fridays at the KSU Museum for gallery talks, lectures and conversation.
The first Fashion Focus series will highlight the talent and ideas of KSU art and fashion faculty whose work is exhibited in Fashion Meets the Body, currently on view at KSU Museum. This series is presented in partnership with the KSU School of Fashion Design and Merchandising.
Melissa Campbell, Linda Ohrn-McDaniel, and Sue Hershberger Yoder will share how they use digital printing as both a technique and foil for content.
Free with Museum admission.
Free to KSU Students and Faculty.
The Kent State University Museum's Fashion-Focus Series will highlight the talent and ideas of the Kent State fashion and art faculty whose work is exhibited in the "Fashion Meets the Body: Juried Faculty Exhibition" currently on display in the Museum. The featured artists, Chanjuan Chen, Tamara Cullen, Paula Dancie and Jeanne James, will each present gallery talks on their designs in the exhibit. The event is free with KSU Flashcard or with free with your Museum admission.
The Kent State University Museum's Fashion-Focus Series will highlight the talent and ideas of the Kent State fashion and art faculty whose work is exhibited in the "Fashion Meets the Body: Juried Faculty Exhibition" currently on display in the museum. The featured artists, Margarita Benitez, Andrew Kuebeck and Rachel Smith, will discuss their unique integration of various technologies in their work and research. The event is free with your Kent State FLASHcard or with your museum admission.
