Workshops
The Small Works Juried Exhibition is open to artists worldwide. The exhibition will be on view at the KSU Downtown Gallery (141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio) from January 24 - February 29, 2020.
Deadline for entries is December 7, 2019.
Juror: Gianna Commito
Artists must be 18 years or older.
Artists working in any media are welcome to enter up to three (3), original works of art and up to three per artist will be accepted.
The Small Works Juried Exhibition will be comprised of a maximum of one hundred (100) works of art, with no more than three works from any single artist.
Size Regulations:
Two-Dimensional (2D) - Original Works of Art are not to exceed 144 (12”x 12”) square inches (excluding framing).
Three-Dimensional (3D) - Original sculpture/glass/etc. are not to exceed 8”h x 8”w x 8”d
Awards & Prizes
Best in Show: winner receives $500.00
Judges Choice: winner receives $250.00
More information and the application can be found via the link below.
Occurring Friday evening, October 25, 2019, 7:30 – 9:30 pm as part of the Kent State conference: “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace”
LOCATION: The ballroom of the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
How can it happen that children and teens sometimes find themselves looking up the barrels of their own governments’ guns? The May 4 shootings shocked the United States but were hardly unique. We will use a fishbowl discussion format to consider the causes and consequences of this surprisingly common form of state violence, and ways to reduce it. In a Fishbowl discussion, participants seated inside the inner circle, or ‘fishbowl,’ actively contribute to the discussion; they ask questions, share thoughts and opinions. Those on the outside circle or circles listen carefully to the ideas presented and may decide to rotate into the inner circle discussion or to ask question of the group in the center.
- Christine Nobiss is Plains Cree-Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation. She is a Decolonizer with Seeding Sovereignty and directs the SHIFT and Land Resilience Projects. Christine holds a Masters Degree in Religious Studies (Native American focus).
- Thomas M. Grace, Ph.D., is the author of Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016). Thomas is one of the nine surviving casualties of the Ohio National Guard gunfire in May 1970 and was part of a group of plaintiffs that won a 1974 US Supreme Court decision, Scheuer v. Rhodes, for their right to sue Ohio National.
- Tony Gaskew, Ph.D., is a professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford. He has over twenty years of policing experience. His research focuses on the relationship between policing and the Black experience in the U.S and beyond. He is the author 3 books including Policing Muslim American Communities (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).
- Sibley Hawkins has been with the International Center for Transitional Justice since 2014, focusing primarily on gender justice and truth seeking in Côte d’Ivoire, Nepal, Syria, and Tunisia and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in Human Rights and International Law from New York University
Occurring Saturday evening, October 26, 2019, as part of the Kent State conference: “Commemorating Violent Conflicts and Building Sustainable Peace”
The play is free and open to the public.
LOCATION: Ballroom of the Kent State University Hotel and Conference Center
“May 4th Voices” is a play about the May 4, 1970 shootings of Kent State students by the Ohio National Guard during a student protest against the US wars in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Written by David Hassler, the director of Kent State’s Wick Poetry Center, and directed by Joe Gunderman of WKSU-FM radio, the play is based on the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, which includes more than 115 interviews that contain first-person narratives and personal reactions to the events of May 4, 1970. The interviews contain the viewpoints of members of the Kent community, Kent State faculty, students, alumni, staff, and administrators who were on campus that day, as well as National Guardsmen, police, hospital personnel, and others whose lives were affected by their experiences of May 4 and its aftermath.
Weaving these voices and stories together anonymously, Hassler’s riveting play tells the human story of May 4th and its ongoing legacies, capturing the sense of trauma, confusion, and fear felt by all people regardless of where they stood that day, and afterwards.
What is the DAISY Faculty Award?
The DAISY Foundation developed this program to provide colleges and schools of nursing a national recognition program they may use to show appreciation to faculty for their commitment and inspirational influence on their nursing students. The DAISY Foundation hopes that this program will contribute to a positive work environment for faculty in schools.
Faculty members who are nominated for The DAISY Faculty Award are individuals who have made an impact on their students, the students’ future patients, and the nursing profession. These faculty members consistently demonstrate excellence in the classroom, in their clinical expertise and by providing outstanding leadership to our students and in the healthcare community.
How to Nominate an Extraordinary Nursing Faculty Member
Students, faculty, and staff members may nominate a deserving nursing faculty member by filling out a nomination form.
Note: Previous recipients are not eligible.
Previous recipients
- 2022 - Lucas Bowen, Kent campus
- 2021 - Taryn Burhanna, Kent campus
- 2020 - Tracy Dodson, Kent campus
- 2019 - Lisa Davis, Kent campus
- 2018 - Lorene Martin, Salem campus
- 2017 - Ann Marie James, Kent campus
- 2016 - Jo Ann Ferguson, Geauga campus
- 2015 - Tim Meyers, Kent campus
- 2014 - Diana Fleming, Kent campus
Vincent Quevedo is an award-winning designer and Associate Professor of the Kent State University School of Fashion. This exhibition of recent designs and garments explores Quevedo’s inventive experiments and manipulation of materials. Discharged fabrics, real leather against faux leather, industrial cords are all cut, patched, quilted, crocheted and transformed. Fortuna, the goddess of luck and fate, embodies his willingness to be open and follow where the process will lead.
Image: Detail, 1980s Redux, 2019, Courtesy of the designer.
Ranjan Dutta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Learner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Remyelination Failure as a Cause of Disease Progression in Multiple sclerosis
https://www.lerner.ccf.org/neurosci/dutta/
The mission of the Brain Health Research Institute is to foster and support collaborative research leading to innovative discoveries about the brain that ultimately improve the health of our communities and beyond.
Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). Under Landrieu's leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.
Mitch Landrieu, the New Orleans mayor who oversaw the removal of the city’s prominent Confederate monuments and helped his city to recover and reemerge from a series of natural disasters, will speak at Kent State as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series.
Landrieu’s 2017 speech, delivered in conjunction with the removal of the last of the four monuments, continues to earn praise for its honesty in confronting the truth about the past in order to chart a new path forward.
In his 2018 New York Times bestselling book that followed, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History,” Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism and tackles the broader history of slavery, race relations and institutional inequalities that still plague America. He recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race and class.
Landrieu will be on campus Nov. 19 as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series, leading up to the 50th anniversary of the May 4, 1970, shootings on the Kent State campus, in which four students were killed and nine others wounded by the Ohio National Guard during a student protest of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
“Mayor Landrieu exemplified the best of American statesmanship when he helped his city face up to its past as a means of charting a better course for its future,” Kent State President Todd Diacon said. “We look forward to hearing his remarks as part of our ongoing commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, in which we reflect on the dangers of polarization and the powerful impact of reconciliation.”
Landrieu served as the 61st mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and was in the midst of the BP oil spill. Under Landrieu’s leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.
As mayor, Landrieu took steps to lower crime, rebuild the city’s infrastructure and restore the public’s faith in city government.
In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016, he was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors.
He gained national prominence for his powerful and historic decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Prior to serving as mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
An attorney and former mediator, Landrieu, 59, is the son of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, who served from 1970 to 1978 and later served as President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He is the brother of Mary Landrieu, former U.S. senator from Louisiana.
Landrieu and his wife Cheryl, also an attorney, have five children and reside in New Orleans.
Landrieu will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on the Kent Campus.
TICKETS
May 4 Speaker Series events are free and open to the public. However, a ticket is required for admission.
For free tickets and event information, visit https://ksuevents.universitytickets.com.
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Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will speak at Kent State University at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 as part of the university’s May 4 Speaker Series.
A contemporary metals exhibition curated in response to a Commemorative Medallion made by Philadelphia College of Art students in honor of the students who perished at Kent State on May 4, 1970.
Join us for specials in the Museum Store, pop-ups by local artists, and more. Bring family and friends to enjoy the galleries, shopping, hot chocolate and treats. Guided tours of the exhibitions at noon and 2 pm.
Questions? Call 330.672.3450.
