Diversity & Culture

"Dazzling Day and Night" celebrates the creative legacy of the KSU Museum’s founders, Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman. The exhibition will highlight over 30 ensembles from the late 1950s when Rodgers began designing in NYC through the 1970s.

The Kent State University Museum is honored to host the first museum exhibition in the United States dedicated to the work of the brand Sukeina founded by Omar Salam. While his family’s origins go back to Senegal in West Africa, Salam lived around Europe before coming to New York City to study at Parsons School of Design for a degree in fashion.

To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture, which opens August 25 and runs through December 17, 2023,  Dr. Ellington will present a lecture entitled The Story of the Body Image of Black Women.