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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.

Hello KSU School of Art Alumni!

The link for submissions of resumes or CVs and images for the juried Centennial Alumni Exhibition is open for business on our Galleries welcome page. We look forward to hearing from you and including you in the plans for our participation in Kent State University's Centennial year celebrations!

OPPORTUNITIES

Travel-study to New York this fall:  a few openings remain...

LOTS of Internship opportunities for fall, 2009...!

Study Abroad Opportunities  for 2009!

The dollar is stronger, the Euro weaker, and our teaching forces are out in full force this fall and over the holidays!

> 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.

> Travel to London and Paris, even Tunisia, over the holiday break (late December - mid-January, 2010) and earn art history credit!  More ...

MFA (sculpture) alumna Carol Hummel recently completed a public work as artist-in-residence at Heights Arts.  with the assistance of community members, including a group of senior citizens at University Settlement, works were crocheted to call to attention parking meters, trees, and lightposts in the University Heights and Cleveland Heights areas.

One participant commented: “Your projects have changed the entire energy in our neighborhoods; people are so much happier when they walk down our streets. Everyone is smiling.”

Public art opportunities for artists at all career stages ....

HEAR! HEAR! on ART

Visiting printmakers Karen Koschnick and Claudia Scheffler will speak on their work on Thursday, 15 October, at 1pm in the Print Studio (111 Van Deusen). Both visit northeastern Ohio as part of an ongoing project of Zygote Press with printmakers through the region; an exhibition featuring their work opens at Zygote on Friday, 30 October, from 7-10pm.

Visiting Critic Saul Ostrow will speak on the work of British artist Liam Gillik on Friday 30 October , at 12:30pm in 206 Art Building.  

IN OUR GALLERIES...

Kent State University School of Art faculty - current, emeritus, adjunct - have art on view in the 2009 Biennial Faculty Exhibition in the School Gallery (Art Building).   Described as "polished and strong" by an artworld figure who should know, this is an excellent way to be introduced to the wide range of work produced by stellar faculty as students decide on courses for the spring semester.  Through 16 October.  

For a PDF document listing all fall gallery activities in and around Kent...

ART ABROAD

Associate Professor of Printmaking Michael Loderstedt recently participated in the 100th anniversary of Hellerau as the first German "Garden City" with an installation of printed and folded screenprints derived from photos of existing Hellerau addressses.  Each house in Hausbuch(e) is printed on both sides with architectural elements from specific Hellerau houses and details from Loderstedt's Cleveland garden.  Eventually they will be downloadable so that everyone can create their own Hellerau.  Learn more...

The work was created in part with support by the KSU Research and Graduate Studies. Opening on June 6, 7, and 14, the paper houses, when unfolded, were presented as a large format book to publisher Jakop Hegner, original owner of the installation site.

Interested in studying art abroad?  Check out the opportunities here...

MFA (Painting) alumna Lorri Ott has just closed a show of recent work, "Debris from a Lost Campaign," at the William Busta Gallery (Cleveland, OH).  The exhibition (11 Sept. -10 Oct.) was accompanied by a catalogue with the essay "Two ways of looking at worksk of art by Lorri Ott," by Bill Busta.

This page last updated 14 October 2009.

MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE

Scholarships! Fall 2009 scholarship applications now available!  Deadline: 16 November, 4pm. Click here for PDF of guidelines and application forms...

Drop-in Advising for Fall 2009 semester:

Tuesdays and Wednesdays
10a - noon and 1-3p (Anne Reid)

Thursdays 1:30-4 (Ben Stenson).

Questions? Call the Art office: 330.672.2192.

Portfolio reviews for AP credit and/or placement in advanced studios will be held on Monday, 2 November and Wednesday 18 November, from 11-noon in the School of Art office.  For further information and/or to make an appointment, please call Mrs. Beth Renicker  in the School of Art office (330.672.2192).

ON VIEW ELSEWHERE

"Touch and Scale: Kent State Studio Art" has opened at the Trumbull Art Gallery (Warren, OH) and runs through 14 November.  Curated by Professor Janice Lessman-Moss, the exhibition features work by

Laurie Addis, Martin Ball, Phillip Buntin, Julie Friedman, Mark Keffer, Don King, Janice Lessman-Moss, Kirk Mangus,Carey McDougall, Jack McWhorter, Al Moss, Jen Omiatz, Lorri Ott, Martine Peters, Darice Polo, Erica Raby, Jennifer Ramirez, Noel reifel, Billy Ritter, Douglas Sanderson, Jonatha Stmumpf, Emikly Sullivan, Cathey Theodore, and Anderson Turner.

MFA textiles alumna Rebecca Cross opened her first solo exhibit at the McFadden Gallery of Malone University (Canton), Transformations: Shibori in Silk, which runs from 31 August to 20 October.