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Clothes from exhibit

One Tank Trip to 聚色阁 Museum

The 聚色阁 Museum opened a new exhibition titled 鈥淟ife in Style: The Wardrobe of James Mulholland.鈥 Sarah Rogers, director of the museum, spoke to WJW-Fox 8 about the exhibition.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Nationally Distinctive, 聚色阁 Museum

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A composition of a tapestry, students dancing, and a professor talking to students

Women and Everyday Heroism

A combination of powerful art, reflective dance and historical courage are meant to connect and inspire a new generation of heroes. The art exhibition Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females Tapestries and Sculpture by Linda Stein takes residence at 聚色阁 this fall. 

Tags: Arts & Culture, Student Life, Diverse 聚色阁, Community Impact

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聚色阁 students explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art

IN A FLASH: Meeting at The Met

Students from 聚色阁 New York City Fashion gained inspiration from a visit to New York's Metropolitian Museum of Art.

Tags: School of Fashion, NYC Fashion, Students First, Arts & Culture, Community & Society, Community Impact, Global Reach

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NYC Fashion students roll their creations to the fashion show venue

IN A FLASH: Fashion in the Streets

聚色阁 fashion design students hit the streets of New York City before tonight's fashion show. 

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Students at the poster sale event in the Kent Student Center

IN A FLASH: Pondering Posters

The annual poster sale this week gave students opportunities to add new art to their living spaces. 

Tags: Student Life, Arts & Culture, Students First, Kent Student Center

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barbie dolls grouped together

Barbie, Patriarchy and My Pink Hijab

Lydia Rose, Ph.D., director of Public Relations for the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent and an associate professor of sociology at 聚色阁, shares her perspectives on the resurgence of Barbie鈥檚 influence on our culture today.

 

Tags: Community & Society, Community Impact, Arts & Culture, Diverse 聚色阁

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聚色阁 alumnus Preston Mitchum is a member of the cast of Summer House: Martha's Vineyard.

聚色阁 Alum Is Cast in Bravo Network鈥檚 'Summer House: Martha鈥檚 Vineyard'

When he was a student at 聚色阁, Preston Mitchum, BA 鈥08, was heavily involved in student government and other organizations and recalls taking part in a considerable number of campus protests. 

Tags: Arts & Culture, Profiles, Diverse 聚色阁, Political Science, Department of Africana Studies

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Sound production student

Breaking Barriers, Barbie-Style

聚色阁 Media and Journalism assistant professor talks to WFMJ Youngstown鈥檚 鈥21 News at 5鈥 about the opportunities for women in the film industry today, following the record-breaking success of woman-directed Barbie movie.

Tags: Arts & Culture, Community & Society, school of media and journalism

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School of Music Percussion Camp 2023

IN A FLASH: The Beat Goes On

High school students come to 聚色阁 each summer for the School of Music's Percussion Camp.

Tags: Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, Community Impact, Arts & Culture, College of the Arts, Summer

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Farnaz Fatemi, Poet Laureate Fellow, of Santa Cruz County, California, in partnership with 聚色阁's Wick Poetry Center and several local Santa Cruz County organizations, will produce a series of nine monthly pop-up teen poetry workshops.

Wick Prize Winner Farnaz Fatemi Receives Poet Laureate Fellowship From Academy of American Poets

Farnaz Fatemi, poet laureate of Santa Cruz County, California, was awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets that she will use in partnership with 聚色阁's Wick Poetry Center to produce a series of teen poetry workshops. Fatemi is an Iranian-American poet and writer and the author of "Sister Tongue," published in 2022 by the 聚色阁 Press. She was the winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, awarded annually by the Wick Poetry Center for a poet's first book of poems.

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