Current Exhibitions
Fashion & Feather: A Collaboration between Kent State University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Please join us for a special exhibition celebrating fashion history and the natural world. Fashion & Feather is a unique cross-disciplinary collaboration between the Kent State University Museum, the Kent State School of Fashion Design & Merchandising, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The exhibition showcases the beauty and complexity of feathers through historical garments, ornithological specimens, cultural objects, and student designs, exploring how design is inspired by the natural world.
LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style
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LeRoy Neiman Exhibition Highlights Early Fashion Illustration Work LeRoy Neiman (1921–2012) was best known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screen prints of athletes, musicians and sporting events. A new exhibition highlights his early, lesser-known work as a fashion illustrator and explores how it influenced his lifelong interest in capturing the clothing, gesture and style of his subjects.
A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa
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The exhibition "A Meeting of Cultures: Fashioning North Africa" will be the first of its kind in the world to focus specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Fashion Timeline
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Palmer and Mull Galleries | Sara Hume, CuratorThe “Fashion Timeline” showcases the Kent State University Museum’s world-class collection of historic fashions. Encompassing over two centuries of fashion history, this exhibition is designed to show the evolution of styles and silhouettes while contextualizing the pieces with relevant political, technological and cultural developments. While the display is a permanent feature at the museum, the individual pieces are rotated frequently so there is always something new to see!