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Arts & Culture

Kaleigh McGreal Spring

‘This is Going to be My Crunch Time Right Now’

A soon-to-be ¹ú²úÂ×Àí graduate has had a busy semester preparing for the School of Fashion's Annual Fashion Show and job hunting after graduation.

Tags: College of the Arts , School of Fashion , Student Life , Nationally Distinctive , Arts & Culture

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Art students recreate ancient artifact using modern technology

IN A FLASH: Replicating Ancient Artifacts with Modern Tech

Students in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí's School of Art had the opportunity to use modern methods to recreate an ancient Chinese wine vessel. 

Tags: DI Hub , School of Art , College of the Arts , experiential learning , Students First , Arts & Culture

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Cemetery Calling

IN A FLASH: Cemetery Calling

Cemetery Calling, the newest play by ¹ú²úÂ×Àí alumni and staffer Eric Mansfield premiered in Cleveland earlier this year. Another of Mansfield's plays, Trial by Fire, will be performed on campus in Fall 2024. 

Tags: Theatre , University Communications and Marketing , Community & Society , Community Impact , Arts & Culture

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Dame Zandra Rhodes

¹ú²úÂ×Àí School of Fashion To Induct Fashion Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes Into Hall of Fame

The School of Fashion at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí is pleased to announce British designer Dame Zandra Rhodes as the 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee.

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Poetry writing for the total solar eclipse.

Eclipse Poetry: The Convergence of Science and Art

An event like the total solar eclipse observed in Kent on April 8 can help to shake up our lives from the mundane. Poetry can work in the same way, said Chris Wick, son of Walt Wick, one of the founders of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Wick Poetry Center.

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The ¹ú²úÂ×Àí library stands tall in darkness while the moon blocks out the sun during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Flash of Darkness: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Celebrates Total Eclipse of the Sun

It was a party 218 years in the making.

The thousands of people who came to ¹ú²úÂ×Àí on April 8 to witness the total solar eclipse did not leave disappointed by the celestial show, the likes of which had not been seen in Kent, Ohio since 1806.

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Holi 2024

The Festival of Love, Colors and Spring

In late March, groups of Indian students on campus celebrated the popular and significant Hindu festival of Holi. 

Tags: Global Impact , Community & Society , International Students , Student Organizations , University Culinary Services , Arts & Culture

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Caden Clark, "A Night Out" by Yinxi Li

IN A FLASH: Campus Reflections

A student photographer for KentWired captured atmospheric images of "A Night Out" on the Kent Campus. 

Tags: Student Media , Student Life , Photography , Students First , Kent Campus , Arts & Culture

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Art from Graphic Content exhibition

A Closer Look at ‘Graphic Content’

Alison Caplan, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, provides an up close look at some of the items in the center's "Graphic Content: The Comics of May 4" exhibition.  She also share stories about the art and the artists that created it.  

Tags: May 4 , Alumni , May 4 Visitors Center , Community & Society , taylor hall , Nationally Distinctive , Arts & Culture

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Dress up for Downs 2024 Fashion Event

IN A FLASH: Dressing up for Downs

Dress Up for Downs, a ¹ú²úÂ×Àí student organization recently held its 8th annual fashion show fundraiser . The event, themed "Hollywood Heroes," featured a runway show with designs by ¹ú²úÂ×Àí fashion design students and raised over $3000 for the Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio. 

Tags: Student Organizations , Community & Society , Community Impact , Fashion School , College of the Arts , Arts & Culture

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