Arts & Culture
Dress Up for Downs, a ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ student organization recently held its 8th annual fashion show fundraiser . The event, themed "Hollywood Heroes," featured a runway show with designs by ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ fashion design students and raised over $3000 for the Down Syndrome Association of Northeast Ohio.
One of the many take-aways from the Dialogue and Difference program "Understanding and Combating Islamophobia" was that overcoming Islamophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry may be as simple as remembering the lessons we should have been taught as children.
Design Innovation is about sharing, stitching together extracurricular, cross-disciplinary and collaborative design innovation projects and experiences and sharing them with the ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ community. On March 11, the stitching was literal.
The Living in The Arts Living-Learning Community, located in Prentice Hall, opened the doors to its new and improved studio space with an open house to explore and learn about all the new attributes of the updated creative studio.
Aligned with Women's History Month, the Design Innovation Fellows hosted The Feminine Urge to Inspire workshop to explore the inventions and inspiration of women
The gentle voice of indigenous poet Kimberly Blaeser filled the room of the Wick Poetry Corner in ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Library on Wednesday, March 6. Jessica Jones, associate lecturer of English at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ at Stark, led a Q&A session touching on Blaeser’s new poetry collection, initiatives and inspiration.
The April 8 total solar eclipse has sparked a new opportunity for interactive poetry from ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s Wick Poetry Center.
As part of ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ's Dialogue and Difference: A New Understanding" initiative, faculty members from diverse backgrounds came together in an online panel to share their personal insights in navigating the impact of conflict and cultural and religious identity.
¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 with a poster presentation to allow international students the chance to highlight women in their home countries and a service project to aid Days for Girls.
The poster presentation was followed by a panel discussion of students, faculty and staff talking about women’s issues and successes across their globe.