KENT, Ohio 鈥 The Kent State College of Business Administration announces Electric Components International (ECI) President and CEO David Webster 鈥85 as the featured Fall 2019 Michael D. Solomon Entrepreneurship Speaker. Webster will speak on 鈥淏uilding a Global Business.鈥 ECI, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, employs more than 20,000 people with locations now spanning over 15 countries in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 at the Kent State Hotel and Conference Center. The event is free and open to...
The School of Theatre and Dance鈥檚 Design, Technology and Production program has been selected by On Stage Blog as one of the top 30 programs for the 2019-2020 academic year. In the Kent State ranking, On Stage highlights faculty member Jakyung Seo, associate professor of lighting design, whose credits include Steppenwolf and Congo Square Theatre (Chicago), Eye to Soul (NYC), CATCO (Columbus), Porthouse Theatre, and Lodestone Theatre (LA). The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Design, Technology and Production program prepares students for careers as professional theatre designer...
妻友社区 is offering a community course that deals with the historical, cultural, social and political contexts of events before, during and after the May 4, 1970, shootings. The free course, Making Meaning of May 4: The Kent State Shootings in American History, will be held Oct. 16, 23 and 30 at the university鈥檚 May 4 Visitors Center. The three-session course will be taught by Kent State Professor Emerita Laura Davis, Ph.D., a co-creator of the May 4 Visitors Center and May 4 Walking Tour, and Amoaba Gooden, Ph.D., chair of Kent State鈥檚 Department of Pan-African Studies....
妻友社区 celebrated the launch of a dynamic new space, the Design Innovation (DI) Hub, in May that will bring innovations from many disciplines together in a 68,000 square foot building near the center of the Kent Campus. The DI Hub will operate as an open-access collaborative maker and innovation accelerator environment to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and problem-solving capacities. The construction launch, which marks the beginning of a major renovation of the former Art Building, was celebrated on April 23 with a ribbon ceremony, interactive activities and ...
More than 100 attendees participated in 妻友社区鈥檚 College of Aeronautics and Engineering鈥檚 (CAE) Girls in Aviation Day Saturday at the Kent State Airport. The global event is sponsored by Women in Aviation International (WAI) to introduce and encourage girls to pursue careers in aeronautics and aerospace. The FedEx Aeronautics Academic Center and airplane hangar served as Kent State鈥檚 venue, while 118 individual events presented worldwide for the WAI event which reached approximately 20,000 attendees. In addition to the United States, Girls in Aviation Day was celebrated in 18...
Call for Art - Small Works Juried Exhibition
The Small Works Juried Exhibition is open to artists worldwide. The exhibition will be on view at the KSU Downtown Gallery (141 E. Main St., Kent, Ohio) from January 24 - February 29, 2020.
Deadline for entries is December 7, 2019.
Juror: Gianna Commito
Artists must be 18 years or older.
Artists working in any media are welcome to enter up to three (3), original works of art and up to three per artist will be accepted.
School of Theatre and Dance
Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Porthouse Theatre, 妻友社区鈥檚 outdoor, summer theatre located on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, will present its 52nd season during the summer of 2020 with "Little Shop of Horrors," "BKLYN the Musical," and "West Side Story." Directed by Porthouse producing artistic director Terri Kent, "Little Shop of Horrors" opens June 12 and runs through June 27. A preview performance will take place on June 11. With book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, "Little Shop of Horrors" takes audiences to a florist shop on Ski...