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
Plan ahead for 2012-13!
> 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!
Have a look at Student Opportunities...
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!
Three distinguished alumni of the School of Art share their appreciation for what being a student here meant to them and their careers (below)...
iPad Launch this fall in ART 10022 classes!
Students in 2-D comp foundations classes this fall semester will launch the School's iPad initiative, a pioneering effort to integrate the latest technology into art classes as a replacement and innovative tool.
Assistant Professor and foundations coordinator Mark Schatz says he's discovering what a great sketchbook, communication device, and documentation tool the newiPad can be. "And it fits right into your backpack!" he demonstrates.
For more information and FAQs...
CONGRATULATIONS TO A BUNCH OF WINNERS!!
Paul Rodgers, graduating senior, BFA in printmaking, won the Anthony Bartholomew KSU Post-graduate Residency at Zygote Press for this June!
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...
Bridget O'Donnell, Kevin Hogan, Annette Miro Ojeda, Marianne Brammell, Diane Miley, and Barbara Breedon Van Blarcum
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
Summer 2012 Kent Blossom Art (KBA) intensive workshops have begun - click here to get an overview of disciplines/media and this summer's resident faculty ....
Speakers (6p in 202 Art Building) to come:
Christine Bourdette, sculptor, Thurs., 24 May
Zak Smith, painter, Fri., 25 May
Richard Rezac, sculptor, Thurs., 31 May
Mary Hallam Pearse, jeweler/metalsmith, Thurs., 7 June
Chuck Hindes, ceramist, Tues., 12 June
Anat Shiftan, ceramist, Tues., 19 June
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Regular drop-in times for students needing academic advice with Ms. Maria Robertson for the summer are:
28 May - 13 July: Thursdays, 1:30-4p.
16 Jujly - 17 August: 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.
Professor Michael Loderstedt's sculptural prints and assemblages open in an installation (below) this week at VanDeb Editions in New York, which will be onview through 15 June.
For a short video of this installation of three-dimensional magpies and flat works...
In addition, printmaking MFA alumna Lesley Sickle (installation shot below) and printmkaing MFA candidate Bridget O'Donnell are also in the Big Apple, with recent work on view at the International Print Center New York. Opening is scheduled for Thursday, 31 May.
Questions about the Fall 2012 iPad Launch? Click here...
This page last updated 24 May, 2012.
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