Workshops

Join us as we celebrate two of our exhibitions: Culture/Counterculture: Fashions of the 1960s and '70s and Wearing Justice: Perspectives from KSU Fashion School Faculty and Students. This reception is open to the public.

The exhibition Culture/Counterculture looks at fashions of the 1960s and early 1970s with a particular focus on the generation gap during that period. The exhibition is scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Kent State’s shootings on May 4, 1970. Almost 50 years ago, the shootings of Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard brought to a head the cultural divides that had split the nation. There was a sharp contrast between supporters of the establishment and those opposed – the culture and the counterculture. As part of the 50th year commemoration of May 4, the KSU School of Fashion and Merchandising is presenting designs by faculty and students in the exhibition, Wearing Justice that use fashion to create a dialogue about war and peace, political discourse, conflict resolution and social justice today.

September 19, 2019 from 5-8 pm. Remarks at 6 pm.

Please RSVP to www.kent.edu/KSUMuseumRSVP.

Join KSU fashion school faculty members Kim Hahn, Trista Grieder, Melissa Campbell as well as students Alexandra Reich, Megan Rodgers, and Michelle Park who will share their inspiration and process behind their designs for the exhibition that marks the 50th commemoration of May 4th.

Free for Students and with General Admission.

Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.

Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.

Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.

Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America is a documentary film about a generation of young people, who stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years, the 1960s through the 1970s. On May 4th, 1970, thirteen of these young Americans were shot down by the National Guard in a shocking act of violence against unarmed students.

Dr. Sara Hume, KSU Museum Curator and Curator of the Culture/CounterCulture exhibition will discuss the contrasts between establishment fashion and counterculture styles as well as their mutual influences.

Free for Students with General Admission

An International Conference at Kent State University Commemorating the May 4, 1970 shooting by the Ohio National Guard of Kent State Students during a demonstration against the US wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the occupation of the Kent State campus by the Ohio National Guard Kent, OH, USA

October 24-26, 2019

An International Conference at Kent State University Commemorating the May 4, 1970 shooting by the Ohio National Guard of Kent State Students during a demonstration against the US wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the occupation of the Kent State campus by the Ohio National Guard Kent, OH, USA - October 24-26, 2019.

Please join The Kent State University Press and author Howard Ruffner to celebrate the publication of "Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970. Mr. Ruffner became a witness and documentarian to the historic events of May 4, 1970. His intensely personal book collects nearly 150 of his photographs, including those that appeared in Life magazine, as well as many never before published.