Arts & Culture

Environmentally Conscious: Kent State Student Confronts Manufacturing Trend That Impacts Climate Change
Kent State sophomore fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler launched a business that creates a more sustainable, lower carbon-footprint approach to making clothes.

The New Kent State ARTshop is Serious Business
The new ARTshop serves as an entrepreneurial laboratory for School of Art students to display and to learn about promoting their artwork.

Kent State’s Fashion School Receives $2.5 Million Gift From Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation
The gift will fund two initiatives: $1.5 million to endow a chair to support the Fashion School’s director and a matching grant of up to $1 million to support the study-away program.

Video: FS²: Reverie 2017 - Kent State's Annual Fashion Show
The Annual Fashion Show, “FS²: Reverie 2017,” highlighted the outstanding talents of the Fashion School’s design and merchandising students. Michael Kors was the Presenting Partner for this year's show.

Fashion Student Starts Business to Help Spread Awareness of Sustainability
These days, consumers can buy the latest clothing trends quickly and inexpensively. But, critics say, this “fast fashion” can be detrimental to the environment.

Touched by Migration: Poetry Helps Give Refugees and Immigrants a Voice
A unique poetry partnership is helping to spread the “word” about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States.

Touched by Migration: Poetry Helps Give Refugees and Immigrants a Voice
A unique poetry partnership is helping to spread the “word” about migration, literally. Powerful and inspiring words are ringing throughout 11 cities in the United States.

Kent Trumbull Student Brings Theatre to the Deaf Community
at Trumbull sophomore Jessie Narkum is co-directing a production of The Little Mermaid Jr. performed entirely in American Sign Language.

Michael Kors Partners with Kent State Fashion School for Annual Fashion Show
Luxury lifestyle brand will partner with the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising to present the school’s 35th Annual Fashion Show.