Arts

Ex-Utero - Cristin Millett

Through sculpture and research-driven practice, Cristin Millett investigates the cultural histories and future imaginaries of the body, with a focus on emerging reproductive technologies and medical systems.

Remix: On Future Ancestors and Spinning Archives - Jazzmen Lee-Johnson

Artist Jazzmen Lee-Johnson will lead a conversational walkthrough exploring how she challenges historical narratives and the status quo through sampling, remixing and hip-hop praxis. Her interdisciplinary practice spans printmaking, music, research and film.

A3TH3RiUM: the wistful yearning for the intangible - sulo bee

A3TH3RiUM explores sulo bee’s process-driven experimentation, creature making and material exploration as tools for building an alternate realm called $P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3.

A Collective Spark - Nate Watson

Lecture will provide personal narratives on how community connects creatives, and creatives connect communities. Artists are (by nature) reliant on community. Nate’s story pulls at these threads, exposing the gaps and showing how artists and communities are trying to fill them.

The Eco-poetry of a Borderlands Narrative: Reconsidering the Harrisons’ Lagoon Cycle - Ila Sheren

The Eco-poetry of a Borderlands Narrative: Reconsidering the Harrisons’ Lagoon Cycle Summary: This talk, taking from Sheren’s forthcoming book "Whose Crisis? Visual Narratives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands", 1985-2025, proposes an alternative reading of The Lagoon Cycle through the lens of borders …

Ashley Lyon Artist Lecture

Lyon's work captures the tenderness and complexity of human connection and the mother-experience through monumental figurative fragments in soft hues.

When Fiber Drips: Material Mestizaje - Kira Dominguez Hultgren

Embodied material knowledge or YouTube craft practice? This talk pulls at one thread of Chicana art to consider archives that hide in plain sight and how those archives situate Kira Dominguez Hultgren’s making practice through the lens of the U.S. Arts and Craft movement and Latinx art. The research…

Study of a Myth in Progress - Timothy Hull

A lecture on Timothy Hull’s visual philosophy of desire built through fragments and layered histories.

Both/And

 This exhibition brings together the fresh perspectives and rigorous studio practices of first-year MFA graduate students from: Carnegie Mellon University and Kent State University. "Both/And" serves as a bridge between the creative communities of Pittsburgh and Kent, highlighting the diverse r…

UH Healing Garden Annual Sculpture Exhibition

University Hospital Healing Garden Annual Sculpture Exhibition is a yearly exhibition featuring work by Kent State University graduate and undergraduate students working in any medium. Located in the healing garden at the UH Portage Medical Center, 6847 N Chestnut St, Ravenna, OH 44266.Featured arti…