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Nneka Kai comes to Kent State to give a guest lecture about her artwork on Jan. 20.

‘Hair as Praxis:’ Kai continues conversation by sharing art with Kent State

Danielle Stehle, Reporter January 25, 2023

Kent State’s Center for Visual Arts invited guest speaker Nneka Kai for its First Friday Art Lecture series Jan. 20. Kai created a place to not only showcase her work, but to discuss the importance of...

Janice Lessman-Moss, Textile Professor in the School of Art at Kent State, sits at her loom from Norway while discussing the coming Textile Art Open House on Friday, March 4, 2016. Lessman-Moss was recently named an “individual artist” category winner for the 2016 Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio.

Art professor of 35 years wins Governor’s Individual Artist’s Award

Holly Disch March 8, 2016

A Kent State art professor dedicated her work to textiles for the past 20 years, which paved the way for winning the Governor’s Individual Artists Award.At the start of her college career, Janice Lessman-Moss...

Artist Piper Shepard talks to art students about her practice on Friday March 6, 2015. Shepard works with cloth cutting them into intricate lace designs.

Artist shows Kent State audience “fragility of human spirit” through textiles

Dara Sander March 7, 2015

A guest artist showed Kent State students how textiles can be more than just fabric and can show the fragility, delicacy and humanity of the human spirit during a lecture on Friday, March 6.Janice Lessman-Moss,...