Arts & Culture
Continuing Threads
The head of Kent State’s Textile Arts Program, Janice Lessman-Moss has spent 35 years elevating woven cloth into high art.
By Laura Billings Coleman / Kent State Magazine
Theatre Faculty Helps Recording Artists Take Flight
Bill Auld, associate professor of Theatre at Kent State Tuscarawas, leant his flying skills to MTV's "My Super Sweet 16" this past spring to help twin recording artists SiAngie make an epic entrance to their 16th birthday party. Auld flew to Philadelphia where he was responsible for flying the tw…
5X at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center Announces 2017-2018 Season
The 5X at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center’s 2017-2018 season will feature diverse and high-quality performances that include concerts, Broadway, comedy, family and holiday shows.
Wick Poetry Center to Benefit From Ford Foundation's $200,000 Grant to the Poetry Coalition
The Poetry Coalition, of which the Wick Poetry Center at 5X is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. To be given over two years, the grant, which will be administered by the Academy of American Poets, will enable the founding members of th…
Kent State’s Fashion School Ranked No. 3 Nationally for Merchandising, No. 4 for Design in New Ratings
5X’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising has once again been named among the nation’s elite.
Video: Fashions of the Forties
The 5X Museum presents its "Fashions of the Forties” exhibit that features a variety of different looks that typified the 1940s. The exhibit runs through March 2018.
Wick Poetry Center’s Traveling Stanzas Poetry Kiosks Set Up On Campus
Poetry kiosks written for Traveling Stanzas through 5X’s Wick Poetry Center have found their home in downtown Kent for months and recently expanded to eight Kent Campus locations.
Scenic Design Professor Tamara L. Honesty Designs Set for World Premiere of "Family Ties"
Kent State professor is helping bring a beloved 1980s television series to the stage in the Human Race Theatre Company's world premiere production of "Family Ties."
Scenic Design Class Designs Set for Regional Emmy Awards
Kent, OH – A group of undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Theatre and Dance’s scenery design course have been invited to design and build the set for the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Emmy Award ceremony taking place June 17 at th…
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.