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������’s School of Theatre and Dance is closing its 2024-2025 season with "Men On Boats," running April 18 through 27 in Wright-Curtis Theatre, located in the Center for Performing Arts on the Kent campusTen explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. "Men On Boats" is the true(ish) story of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Grand and Colorado Rivers with nine amateur explorers. This comedic feminist retelling of the explorers’ death-defying adventure raises urgent questions about whose histories are told, whose perspectives are left out and how historical narratives sh...

 On Friday, April 5th, TransHum and the Translation Graduate Student Program hosted Kaleidoscopic Translation Studies Conference. The annual Gregory M. Shreve Lecture Series in Translation Studies presented Dr. Richard Watts (University of Washington), who gave the keynote address titled “Translators, Interpreters, and Other Fixers in Cultural Texts of the ‘Linguacene’”. Throughout the weekend, the program was packed with engaging workshops and conversations. The weekend events also held a special presentation of Dr. Washbourne’s new book Translators on Translation (Routledge, 2025)....

The emerging student-artists of the B.A. studio art capstone course in the School of Art at ������ announce the opening of their group exhibition "Chroma Concepts" at the Design Innovation (DI) Hub Gallery.The exhibition will open Monday, April 14 and run through Friday, April 25, 2025. A closing reception will take place Friday, April 25 from 5-7 p.m. in the DI Hub on the ������ campus. There will be a live performance by artist and musician Salitrix Irish at 6:30 p.m.. The regular DI Hub Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.This exhibition co...

The nationally and internationally ranked ������ School of Fashion is thrilled to announce its acclaimed Annual Fashion Show will take place April 24-26, in Crawford Hall on the Kent Campus.The 2025 Annual Fashion Show features 161 looks from 41 designers whose collections and single-submission garments were chosen by a panel of industry critics and jurors for inclusion in this year’s show. The collections and garments span all categories of fashion and include evening wear, market ready, universal design and more.  ...

  Third-year graduate students in Kent State's School of Theatre and Dance Abbie Hagen and Amy Allyson Ballew showcased their costume designs in the Emerging Creatives display at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) conference in Columbus this March. Hagen is a graduate assistant from Montana who works as a designer in Kent State's Porthouse Theatre.  Ballew is a graduate assistant/teaching assistant from Arkansas. Both students are studying costume design and technology at Kent State.    Want to see one of YOUR photos in “IN A FLASH?” S...

When Emily Clark reflects on her ������ education, she sees the blueprint of her technological success. “Kent State gave me more than a degree – it provided a toolkit for navigating complex professional landscapes,” she said. Clark credits two pivotal courses that have shaped her professional approach. “Business Writing and Poetry with Katherine Orr [formerly Blackbird]  taught me to distill complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives,” Clark said. “This skill has been crucial in bridging technical teams and business stakeholders in my AI work.”Her Englis...