Arts & Culture
IN A FLASH: Cemetery Calling
Cemetery Calling, the newest play by ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ 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.
ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ School of Fashion To Induct Fashion Designer Dame Zandra Rhodes Into Hall of Fame
The School of Fashion at ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ is pleased to announce British designer Dame Zandra Rhodes as the 2024 Hall of Fame Inductee.
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 ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½â€™s Wick Poetry Center.
Flash of Darkness: ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Celebrates Total Eclipse of the Sun
It was a party 218 years in the making.
The thousands of people who came to ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ 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.
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.
IN A FLASH: Campus Reflections
A student photographer for KentWired captured atmospheric images of "A Night Out" on the Kent Campus.
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 ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ student organization recently held its 8th annual fashion show fundraiser . The event, themed "Hollywood Heroes," featured a runway show with designs by ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ 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.