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The School of Art at Kent State University offers a long tradition of imagination, thought, skill, and achievement in the visual arts. For its students, both current and future, its alumni and its many friends, the School of Art continues to explore ideas, provide the highest standards of craft, and stimulate individual and collective creativity, teaching, and research through its programs, curriculum, and exhibitions. On this site, you can find current student and program activities and opportunities, advising and degree information, and ways to contact faculty and staff, as well as a look at what's going on right now. Travel-Study or Study Abroad next year
> Travel-study trips both fall (Chicago and New York) and spring (winter break in Paris/London and/or North Africa, two choices of New York trips) are planned for 2012-13. Check course schedule book and/or School of Art Office for details... > Take a full semester to enroll in studio classes as well as language, art history, history, and Italian culture classes while really soaking it in and getting to know Italy as a long-term resident... Contact the Office of International Affairs here at KSU for further details on this. SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES! Summer and Fall jobs!
Fuzzies! Students on last week's NewYork travel-study trip (above, clockwise from left: E.J. Knesek, Joe Kolliner, Elizabeth Dallas, Matt Guinta, Allison Smith, Annette Miro Ojeda) took some time to fall into the installation at MOMA PS1. Everyone came back inspired and exhausted, so a successful time! ACADEMIC ADVISING Regular drop-in times for students needing academic advice with Ms. Maria Robertson for spring semester are Wednesdays, 9-11a and 1:30-4p and Thursdays, 1:30-4p. You can call Ms. Robertson at 330.672.1363 or click here to schedule with Webscheduler. Transfer students in visual arts majors should contact Ms. Robertson in the Art Office -- 330.672.1363 --for specific advising days that can be coordinated with portfolio reviews.
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THIS WEEK
ON VIEW IN OUR GALLERIES ... TONIGHT!! Part deux of the BFA Gala exhibitions on view NOW in the School of Art Gallery in the Art Building as well as in the first and third-floor gallery spaces! Opening Friday, 27 April,, 5-8p, with food and fun. Also tonight, the 2012 Digital Media Film Festival! Sponsored by the School of Art and All Media Art Supply
IN MAGNIFICENT DOWNTOWN KENT: Adjunct instructor Julie Friedman shows some of her recent cut paper work in the main window of the Downtown Gallery through the end of April. Large-scale and intricate, this is evocative flat work that generates its own three-dimensional fields.
Semper Fidelis: How I Met My Father, in which artist Tom Hubbard exhibits the product of almost 12 year's work getting to know his father, who died in the Viet Nam war in 1966. Opening on Weds., 28 March, with an artist's reception on Thurs., 29 March, 5-7p, this show runs through 12 May at the Downtown Gallery, 141 East Main Street in Kent. To access information on student galleries... ON VIEW ELSEWHERE Congratulations to a passle of School of Art students whose work was selected for long-term loan to the GAR Foundation in Akron, where the work is displayed in offices in the renovated Andrew Jackson House. Tabitha Ott, MFA candidate in Jewelry/Metals, curated works by Stephanie Brewer, Ciaran O'Keefe, Natalie Petrosky, Sebastian Shepherd, Kaleena Spakman Ashley Williams, Joshua Bentley, Adam Citak, Chialla Geib, Matt Kurtz, Emma Pavlik and Allison Smith. Works will remain on loan through the end of 2012 at the GAR Foundation.
Adjunct instructor in fine art photography Lorri Kella presesnts recent work in Unnatural Narratives, opening Sunday, 18 March, 4-7p in the Dragonfly Lounge. The work focuses on Kella's fractured narratives and simulated museum dioramas, captured photographically to create landscapes of promise and disjunction. |
CONGRATULATIONS TO A BUNCH OF WINNERS!! Paul Rodgers, graduating senior, BFA in printmaking, won the Anthony Bartholomew KSU Post-graduate Residency at Zygote Press! School of Art First-year Student Scholarships were made this semester to Abby Kish, Casey Vaughn, Kerie Johannes, and Taylor Murphy. Anna Wood, senior BFA in jewelry/metals, was awarded the first Marjorie L. Collins Scholarship, Established by Katherine and Dan Lee in memory of her sister, Marjorie Collins, BFA summa cum laude in 1973. Carolanne Tkach, BFA candidate, Crafts, and Elicia Carter, dual major in Art History & Fashion Design, were awarded the Jim Russell Memorial Scholarshipsestablished by Raymond S. Pelosi in memory of Jim Russell, for special projects during China travel, March, 2012 , Elizabeth Given and Felicia Bonaduce, BFA candidates in Crafts, were awarded Penland Higher Education Partners Scholarships with KSU for summer, 2012 workshops at Penland. Agustin Sanchez and Matthew Kurz,, BFA candidates in painting, and Shawn Kerns, MFA candidate in painting, were awarded William and Hazel Schock scholarships, established in 1978 by faculty of the School of Art in memory of the devoted service of their colleagues, painters Bill and Hazel Schock. Sebastian Shepherd, BFA candidate in Craft, won this year's Sixth Street Competition, established by emeritus faculty Ted and Jo Harvey in support of students in the School of Art, based on an essay and open to any student enrolled in classes taught in the School of Art during the current semester. Read the winning essay...
Annette Miro Ojeda, undergraduate (Architecture and Printmaking), and Bridget O’Donnell, MFA candidate in printmaking, won this year's Thomas D. Little Prize for Excellence in Printmaking. Prizes were presented by Diane Miley and Marianne Brammell, Tom Little's sisters, with continuing thanks to Professor Michael Loderstedt, Barbara Breedon Van Blarcum, and Kevin Hogan of Ashville, NC, who organized the jurying, along with this year's juror, Professor Charles Beneke (University of Akron). KENT BLOSSOM ART this summer
This page last updated 27 April,, 2012.
Three distinguished alumni of the School of Art share their appreciation for what being a student here meant to them and their careers (below)... |
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