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Rent

Kent State University’s School of Theatre and Dance is continuing its 2023-2024 season with "Rent" which started its run February 16 and goes through Feb. 25 in E. Turner Stump Theatre, located in the Center for Performing Arts.

A scene from "Rent" at the E. Turner Stump Theatre

Kent State's production of "Rent" runs from Feb. 16-25 at the E. Turner Stump Theatre.

Students and faculty putting together photo exhibit

Two Media and Journalism students and Associate Professor David Foster are bringing a fresh perspective to a late 1960s photo collection focused on Black student life at Kent State University.  Lafayette Tolliver, a 1971 alumnus who pursued a degree in photojournalism, was an active photographer for Black student organizations during his university years. In 2014, he generously donated more than a thousand photographs to Kent State.

Graduate student Emily Zhang cooks dumplings as part of a Luna New Year celebration held Feb. 14 in Satterfield Hall.

Satterfield Hall was filled with the sights, sounds and smells of Lunar New Year as Kent State University students gathered Feb. 14 to celebrate and learn to make Asian dumplings.

A design by Kent State fashion student Matthew Williams takes the runway at Haute for the House.

Members of Kent State's fashion community participated in a runway show to benefit Ronald McDonald House.

 

The Wick Poetry Center is collaborating on a new global poem, "Dear Body of Water"

Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center is collaborating on a new global poem to pay tribute to the liquid that sustains life.

“Dear Body of Water,” Wick’s newest collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, invites writers to speak to the bodies of water that have shaped their lives.

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Students at the School of Art Valentines Sale sell ceramic mugs

Art students excitedly staffed tables, spreading their love of aesthetic creations to all who came to the Valentine’s art sale on Friday, Feb. 9, in the Center for the Visual Arts. Artistic masterpieces were on display, ready to bring joy to lucky buyers.

Taylor Swift fan at the FAB Grammy Watch Party

Fans of Taylor Swift - and other artists - came together in the Rathskellar to watch the Grammys.

 

Fashion show at Ronald McDonald house

​Students, faculty and alumni from Kent State University’s world-renowned School of Fashion sent some of their most exciting designs down the runway on Feb. 8 in Haute for the House, a fashion show that benefitted Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio.  

Jacob Schnitzer leading the Kent State University Orchestra

Kent State University student composers had the opportunity to have their works performed in concert by the university’s orchestra.