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Contemporary Menswear Collection “Beyond the Suit” Exhibit to Open at Kent State Museum

Contemporary Menswear Collection “Beyond the Suit” Exhibit to Open at Kent State Museum

  The Museum’s newest exhibit, Beyond the Suit: Contemporary Menswear From the Collection of Alexandre Marr and Dominic Iudiciani, which opens to the public July 27, is a fresh look at current trends in menswear design through the personal wardrobe of Alexandre Marr and D…

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Roe Green, the affectionately named “Fairy Godmother” of ’s School of Theatre and Dance, is once again making wishes come true for current and future generations of students.

Roe Green Foundation Makes $2.2 Million Gift to Fund Visiting Director Series at Kent State

The affectionately named “Fairy Godmother” of ’s School of Theatre and Dance is once again making wishes come true for current and future generations of students. donation The Roe Green Foundation has given $2.2 million for support of The Roe Green Visiting Director Series…

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Kent State students model original designs created by fashion school students during the school’s 2018 Spring Fashion School.

Kent State Fashion School Receives Top Honors in the Nation and Midwest for Design and Merchandising in New Ratings

’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising is once again ranked high among the nation’s elite, according to Fashion-schools.org. For Fashion Design, the school has been rated #4 Nationally (top 3 percent of schools considered), #2 Nationally among public schools and colleges…

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Clone of KSU Collections

Herrick Conservatory     Home to a diverse array of plants—and some fish—the facility is also filled with people. Students and faculty members from the biological sciences department conduct research there, students from other majors come to study and sketch, and student mem…

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KSU Collections

School of Art Collection Room 144, Center for the Visual Arts The Kent State School of Art Collection started when author James A. Michener donated the proceeds from his book about the May 4, 1970 shootings—Kent State: What Happened and Why—to the School of Art in 1971. …

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Concrete books sit in a  courtyard, designed by artist and professor Brinsley Tyrrell.

What is on Your Summer Reading List?

The sun is shining, the temperature is rising and school is out. It is summer and that means soaking up the rays and catching up on all that reading you did not have time for during the year. What books are you planning to read? For some suggestions, we asked around 's Camp…

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Kent State earns international distinction for its ice sculpture in Harbin, China.

Kent State Architect Students Use Fabric, Rope and Ice to Construct International Recognition

The details are stunning. The size - mammoth. The temperature - frigid. They are some of the most awe-inspiring creations made out of mother nature’s most exquisite winter ingredients: snow and ice. Equally impressive are the artists, architects and engineers who take that snow and ice and design a…

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 employees Dustin Lee and Jon Jivan enjoy making movies in their spare time.

From Promoting Kent State to Moviemaking: Kent State Employees Achieve Reel Success

Surrounded by movie posters, scale models and old filming equipment, Dustin Lee, ’07, and Jon Jivan, ’08, sit in their Kent Campus offices creating video content to promote .

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From Promoting Kent State to Moviemaking: Kent State Employees Achieve Reel Success

The exhibition "Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen" is currently on display at the  Museum.

The Unique Finds at the Museum

Most people know the Museum for its amazing fashion and clothing collection, but among its 30,000 pieces are unique finds in and out of the fashion world.

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The Unique Finds at the Museum

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KSU Collections

Herrick Conservatory   In the dead of winter, Kent State’s greenhouse complex teems with life. Home to a diverse array of plants—and some fish—the facility is also filled with people. Students and faculty members from the biological sciences department conduct research there, students fr…

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