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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 through its programs, curriculum, and exhibitions. On this site, you can find current program information, a listing of current events, and ways to contact faculty and staff. You can also see work by our fine art and crafts faculties and students, find descriptions of degrees in art education, fine art, crafts, and art history, and learn more about current exhibitions in our galleries. Alumni and emeriti will also find listings of activities to keep you plugged into the ongoing life of the School.
Prospective KSU undergraduate students! Find information to help you schedule a campus visit, find out more about your prospective major(s), and answer other questions you may have on our Prospective Students page! Prospective students who also enroll in the Honors College - Creative Artist Award scholarship information ... OPPORTUNITIES Public art opportunities for artists at all career stages .... Study Abroad Opportunities for 2009! The dollar is stronger, the Euro weaker, and our teaching forces are out in full force this summer and next fall! Take a full semester, Fall 2009, and enjoy studio courses (Painting I and Drawing III) as well as language, art history, history, and Italian culture while really soaking it in and getting to know Italy as a long-term resident... For further information, contact the Office of International Affairs here at KSU. Internships for summer and fall, 2009... CONGRATULATIONS! Undergraduate and graduate students in the ceramics program received funding from their respective KSU student councils to travel to Phoenix, AZ, in April in order to attend the annual ceramics professional meeting, NCECA. Ceramics professor Kirk Mangus will have work on view in the coordinated exhibition, Synthesis - an exhibition of NCECA international award residencies.
CONGRATULATIONS! Art Education major Jen Allchin was recently awarded the 2009 Ohio Art Education Association's Student Division Award! Way to go, Jen! CONGRATULATIONS! Jewelry/Metals program students Emily Christine (BFA candidate) and Sean Scully (MFA candidate) each won Juror's Awards for their work in the 8th Biennial International Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Enamelist Society's conference, held this year in Oakland, CA. Watch here for iamges of the winning works! Visual Arts? You're in the right place! For Graphic Design, go to Visual Communication Design (VCD).
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Kent Blossom Art concluded a successful summer round of 7 2-week intensive workshops and 12 excellent public presentations byvisiting artists. IN OUR GALLERIES... "Random Acts of Portraiture," curated by graduate printmaking student Leslie Sickle, is on view and open by request in the School Gallery in the Art Building for the duration of the summer. Two exhibitions of work by students and their assistants ("trackers") in the Hattie LarlhamCreative Arts Program open this week. Works by the students open on 3 July at the Eells Gallery out at the Blossom Music Center and works by trackers open on Thursday, 2 July, at the Downtown Gallery in Kent. In addition, recent BA alumnus Gregory Hatch curated an exhibition of prints from the School collection which is now on view in the Michener Gallery on the second floor of the Library. Entitled William Gropper's America, this exhibition offers another perspective on American events of the 1930's. For a PDF document listing all summer gallery activities in and around Kent...
CONGRATULATIONS! Brian Kramer was selected by artist-jurors Kevin Hogan and Michelle Levy as the inaugural winner of the Thomas D. Little Prize for Excellence in Printmaking! Brian's "Earthdance" is shown here:
The award was announced in a ceremony on 24 April and presented by Diane Miley, Tom Little's sister. Congratulations to Brian and to all entrants, including
Maren Derbogen,
Maria Iafelice,
Krista Rickert,
Amanda Meeker,
Cameron Lyden,
Meaghan Jodoin, and J. Annie Williams! CONGRATULATIONS! Noah Schenk (BFA glass, May 2009) has won one of ten nationally-competitive $15,000 fellowships for 2009-2010 from the Center for Craft Creativity and Design. Read about his project here. Congratulations as well to faculty advisors Sean Mercer, Andrew Newbold, and Kathleen Browne! CONGRATULATIONS! Ben Johnson (BFA, glass, 2005) is one of the finalists for the 2009 LEAP awards offered by the Society for Contemporary Craft. Several of his recent works are on view on the SCC website. Good luck, Ben!
CONGRATULATIONS to adjunct faculty member Lori Kella, who won one of the inaugural Cleveland Arts Council prizes to support her ongoing photographic work! Former adjunct professor Don Harvey was another of the 2009 prize winners of this newly established award to support Cleveland-area artists. CONGRATULATIONS! Work by current and alumni students of the Jewelry/Metals program has recently been published in Sarah Perkins' 500 Enameled Objects (Lark Books, 2009). These include current undergraduate Tanesa Flavell and BFA/BA alumni Rebecca Anderson, Kate Denslow, Kristi Kloss, and Liz Steiner. Current MFA students Nikki Couppee and Sean Scully, along with MA alumna Jessica Schlachter and MFA alumni Katy Bergman Cassell, Helen Elliott, Barbi Gossen, Kim Lucci-Elbualy, and Leslie Schug are also featured in the collection. Published artists!
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MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE! Drop-in Advising for summer semester: with Professor Linda Hoeptner Poling on the following dates: Tuesdays, 9:30-12:30 (June 16, 23;July 14, 21, 28; Aug.11,18) Thursdays 12:30-3pm (June 18, 25; July 9, 23; Aug. 20) and the following Mondays: 12:30-3pm: July 20 and Aug.10; and Fridays: May 29: 9:30-12 noon, and 19 June 9:30-12 noon. All in conjunction with portfolio review (see below) Come to the School of Art office, 211 Art Building. Portfolio Evaluations (transfer students & for AP credit) Make an appointment for individual portfolio review and bring a selection of your best work to discuss with Professor J. Noel Reifel on any of the following dates: Friday, May 29 or June 19, 9:30am-12:30m; or Monday, July 20 or Aug. 10,12:30-3pm. All these dates coincide with academic advising times, so one stop can get you a chance at both. Call 330.672.2192 for an appointment. Summer School of Art 2009 offers opportunities to get ahead, catch up, or explore new directions. Further info....
CHANGING OF THE GUARD
ON VIEW ELSEWHERE ART ABROAD Associate Professor of Printmaking Michael Loderstedt recently participated in the 100th anniversary of Hellerau as a German "Garden City" with an installation of printed and folded houses that he created in part with support by the KSU Research and Graduate Studies. OPening in mid-June, the exhibition featured 35 international artists celebrating Hellerau's centennial.
Faculty member Scott Olson has 17 paintings on exhibit at the Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm (Sweden)
CONGRATULATIONS to adjunct faculty members Eva Kwong and Doug Sanderson, who each recently received Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council!
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