Arts & Culture
Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s Wick Poetry Center to Receive $90,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Nearly a half century ago, sparks from a passing train not only set fire to oil-slicked debris on the Cuyahoga River, which sent flames five-stories high, it ignited the river’s reputation as one of the most polluted in the United States. Since then, clean-up efforts have helped return the river to …
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Architect Students Use Fabric, Rope and Ice to Construct International Recognition
The details are stunning. The size - mammoth. The temperature - frigid. They are some of the most awe-inspiring creations made out of mother nature’s most exquisite winter ingredients: snow and ice. Equally impressive are the artists, architects and engineers who take that snow and ice and design a…
From Promoting Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ to Moviemaking: Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Employees Achieve Reel Success
Surrounded by movie posters, scale models and old filming equipment, Dustin Lee, ’07, and Jon Jivan, ’08, sit in their Kent Campus offices creating video content to promote Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University.
The Unique Finds at the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum
Most people know the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University Museum for its amazing fashion and clothing collection, but among its 30,000 pieces are unique finds in and out of the fashion world.
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Herrick Conservatory In the dead of winter, Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s greenhouse complex teems with life. Home to a diverse array of plants—and some fish—the facility is also filled with people. Students and faculty members from the biological sciences department conduct research there, students fr…Giving Voice
My Grandfather whose stories were large like a tree’s shadow under which many people could rest who walked slowly like a turtle reflecting kindness who was over one hundred and like a precious suitcase con…
Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ School of Music Faculty Member Theodore Albrecht Awarded Prestigious Beethoven Medal in Baden, Austria
Theodore Albrecht, Ph.D., professor of musicology in Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, has been awarded the Beethoven Medal in recognition of his musicological contributions to the study of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
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World Music InstrumentsRoom C 304, Center for the Performing Arts At the end of each semester, members of Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s world music ensembles demonstrate what they’ve learned in a World Music Concert—an enlivening evening of music and dance organized by the Ethnomusicology Program in the Hugh A…Giving Voice
Altar Boy at the Grand Tetons by Regis Louis Coustillac When did I begin to dance past the path of broken branches, so satisfied with wandering lost beneath an empty barrel of dying stars? I look up to curse the moon and see a single comet burn across the night. It is a blessing on the forehead. …
Continuing Threads
The head of Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s Textile Arts Program, Janice Lessman-Moss has spent 35 years elevating woven cloth into high art.
By Laura Billings Coleman / Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Magazine