Arts & Culture

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.

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.

IN A FLASH: 'Graphic Content' on Display

‘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.

‘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.

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.

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

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.

‘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.

‘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.