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For decades, 5X����’s College of the Arts has worked collaboratively with local businesses, groups and programs to bring the arts to the community. This year, Kent State’s Glauser School of Music had the unique opportunity to partner with Chagrin Arts in bringing to life a new opera, “Blind Injustice.” Partnerships, such as this one, help strengthen the College of the Arts’ relationship in local communities and provide unmatched opportunities for students and alumni.“Blind Injustice” is a powerful new American opera based on the true stories of six Ohioans who were wrongfully co...

The Crystal, a three-story, glass atrium and entrance to the Akron Art Museum, provided the perfect backdrop for these diamonds in the rough, a coming-of-age collection manifested in the proud work of multi-talented, middle and high school students from Akron participating in a program designed to illicit self-expression through poetry, art and virtual reality.The gala marked the culmination and celebration of phase one of a language arts project, “Vulnerable Youth: Writing Our Lives,” a collaboration between Kristine Pytash, Ph.D., and Amy Walker, Ph.D., professors in the Schoo...