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Kent State ​UԾٲ’s cultural offerings have a reach far beyond the borders of Ohio. There’s always something new to experience at the many events held at Kent State, at off-campus locations year-round, ​or virtually. Explore below to find live or digital exhibitions on a wide range of topics.

Featured Live Experiences

 

  • Image of Tiffany & Co. Necklace
    Sparkle: The Style and Jewelry of Aileen Mehle Exhibition
    In honor of the 鶹 Museum’s 40th anniversary, this exhibition pays tribute to Aileen Mehle, a friend of the museum founders and widely syndicated society columnist. The exhibition features evening dresses and jewelry from Mehle that will be displayed in the museum’s historic Higbee Gallery from July 18, 2025, through Aug. 23, 2026. Mehle, who lived from 1918 to 2016, wrote under the pseudonym Suzy Knickerbocker and enjoyed a career spanning five decades – from the 1950s until her final column in 2005, which she wrote at the age of 87. Mehle dressed in Pauline Trigère,
  • A vibrant painting with textured pink rectangles and two bars of neon lights set below it.
    "Problem Child"

    "Problem Child" By Jamie Walters Kessler 

    August 22 - September 27, 2025, at the KSU Downtown Gallery 
    Reception: August 22, 5-7 p.m. 

    Exhibition Description:

    Problem Child is an exhibition featuring a selection of works from Kessler’s Urban South series. Urban South explores the thematic and historical connections between abstraction in painting and ideologies of existentialism and transcendence by reexamining philosophical and spiritual reverence thr

Featured Digital Experiences

 

  • This is a brief video 'fly-through' of the "Listening To Liberty" exhibition that was installed in the DI HUB at 鶹 in November of 2020. The exhibition showcased the range of technology innovations that Kent State provided to create deep audience engagement as part of the "Sisters In Liberty" exhibition that was installed in the National Immigration Museum on Ellis Island, NY in 2019/2020. The original exhibition was proposed and conducted in partnership with the Cathedral Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.

  • Dazzling Day and Night celebrates the creative legacy of the KSU Museum’s founders, Shannon Rodgers (1911-1996) and Jerry Silverman (1910-1984).  The exhibition highlights over 30 ensembles from the late 1950s, when Rodgers began designing in New York City, through the 1970s. The selections of stylish daywear and elegant eveningwear also provide a time capsule of American ready-to-wear styles during these decades.  Rodgers and Silverman were able to translate the latest designs from the Parisian runways into looks their American clients would want. This exhibit also includes Rodgers’ sketches, photographs, and advertising—especially their famous New Yorker Magazine ads “Just show me the Jerry Silvermans, please.”

     

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