Arts & Culture

Kent State fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler's new clothing business, Sultrie, aims to add to the sustainable fashion movement.

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.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Student Success, Success Story, Fashion School, College of the Arts

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The new ARTshop is open for business in the Kent State Center for the Visual Arts.

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.

Tags: School of Art, College of the Arts, Arts & Culture, Student Success, Success Story

Kent Campus

The Fashion School's NYC Studio Director Young Kim Thanos leads a class. The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation gift will help support the study-away program benefiting fashion school students, including those who study at the NYC Studio.

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.

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FS²: Reverie - Kent State's Annual Fashion Show

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.

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Kent State fashion design and business student Madeline Mehler's new clothing business, Sultrie, aims to add to the sustainable fashion movement.

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.

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Traveling Stanzas: poets share their stories

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.

Tags: Arts & Culture, School of Visual Communication Design, VCD, #VCDKent, College of Communication and Information, Globally Engaged

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Traveling Stanzas: poets share their stories

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.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Featured Story

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 at Trumbull sophomore Jessie Narkum (left) works with a Hubbard High School student in preparation for an American Sign Language (ASL) performance of The Little Mermaid Jr.

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.

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A model walks the runway at one of the Fashion School's past Annual Fashion Shows. This year, Michael Kors will partner with the school for its 35th Annual Fashion Show.

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.

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