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

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Dress up for Downs 2024 Fashion Event

IN A FLASH: Dressing up for Downs

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

Tags: Dress up for Downs, Student Organizations, Diverse Kent State, Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Community Impact, Fashion School, College of the Arts

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We all belong here Islam graphic

‘How Do We Develop a Culture of Peace?’

One of the many take-aways from the Dialogue and Difference program "Understanding and Combating Islamophobia" was that overcoming Islamophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry may be as simple as remembering the lessons we should have been taught as children. 

Tags: School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Division of Student Life, Diverse Kent State, Community & Society, Arts & Culture, University News

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Nadia Modjrian teaches Intro to Machine Sewing

‘Sew’ Cool: Threading New Skills

Design Innovation is about sharing, stitching together extracurricular, cross-disciplinary and collaborative design innovation projects and experiences and sharing them with the ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø community. On March 11, the stitching was literal.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Student Life, Students First

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Living Learning Studio in Prentice Hall

Living, Learning, Creating in Improved Studio Space

The Living in The Arts Living-Learning Community, located in Prentice Hall, opened the doors to its new and improved studio space with an open house to explore and learn about all the new attributes of the updated creative studio.  

Tags: Arts & Culture, Student Life, Students First

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Students hold up their Feminine Urge to Inspire fabric vision boards

The Feminine Urge to Inspire

Aligned with Women's History Month, the Design Innovation Fellows hosted The Feminine Urge to Inspire workshop to explore the inventions and inspiration of women

Tags: Student Life, Students First, Arts & Culture, Diverse Kent State

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Poet Kimberly Blaeser sits in the audience during her Q&A

Poet Seeks to Bring ‘Language Back’

The gentle voice of indigenous poet Kimberly Blaeser filled the room of the Wick Poetry Corner in ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø’s Library on Wednesday, March 6. Jessica Jones, associate lecturer of English at ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø at Stark, led a Q&A session touching on Blaeser’s new poetry collection, initiatives and inspiration.  

Tags: Arts & Culture, Diverse Kent State

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Shared Sky is a Wick Poetry Center project for the April 8, 2024 Eclipse

‘To Bear Witness to the Spectacular’

The April 8 total solar eclipse has sparked a new opportunity for interactive poetry from ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø’s Wick Poetry Center.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Nationally Distinctive, Wick Poetry Center

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Religions in times of conflict.

‘We Are Living in a Time of Cracks’

As part of Kent State's Dialogue and Difference: A New Understanding" initiative, faculty members from diverse backgrounds came together in an online panel to share their personal insights in navigating the impact of conflict and cultural and religious identity. 

Tags: Division of Student Life, School of Peace and Conflict Studies, University News, Student Life, Community & Society, Global Reach, Arts & Culture, Diverse Kent State, Global Presence

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