The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University are excited to exhibit "Problem Child," by Jamie Walters Kessler in the KSU Downtown Gallery located at 141 East Main Street, Kent, Ohio. The exhibit will take place Aug. 22 - Sept. 27, 2025, with a reception on Aug. 22, 5-7 p.m. This exhibit features several recent works by this noted artist.Jamie Walters Kessler is a contemporary post-conceptual artist with an interdisciplinary practice that incorporates thought experiments, object-making, art-actions, intervention, happenings, system-making, new media, sound, video and soci...

The School of Art Collection and Galleries at Kent State University are excited to exhibit "The Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry,"  a collaboration between the School of Art Collection and Galleries and the Wick Poetry Center.This exhibition will be held in our CVA Gallery located in the Center for the Visual Arts, 325 Terrace Drive, Kent, Ohio. The exhibit will take place Aug. 26 - Oct. 8, 2025, with a reception on Aug. 29, 5-7 p.m. This exhibit features over twenty artworks from the School of Art Collection and ekphrastic poems by members of the Kent community writt...

  Evening dresses and jewelry worn by Aileen Mehle, a society columnist and New York City style icon who wrote under the pseudonym Suzy Knickerbocker, will be on display in the Kent State University Museum's Higbee Gallery from July 18, 2025, through Aug. 23, 2026.    "Sparkle: The Style and Jewelry of Aileen Mehle" opened with a reception on July 17 and is part of the museum's 40th anniversary celebration. Mehle dressed in Pauline Trigère, Oscar de la Renta, Geoffrey Beene, Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy, while wearing jewelry by David Webb, Cartier and Tiffany ...

Ning-Kuang Chuang, associate professor in the Hospitality and Event Management program in the College of Education, Health and Human Services, received the Silver Teaching Recognition Award for Pedagogical Innovation in Hotel Performance Analytics.The teaching development awards program recognizes actions that enhance teaching and learning at Kent State University. The program allows instructors to earn tiered awards (bronze, silver, gold & platinum) for their efforts to learn about, implement, evaluate and investigate evidence-based instructional practices. All instructors at Kent St...