Kent Blossom Art Intensives

Kent Blossom Art Intensives Kent Blossom Art Intensives (KBAI) are a series of two-week studio art intensives conducted each summer since 1968 at Kent State University.

Kent Blossom Art Intensives have provided students and individual artists with two weeks of focused learning, experimentation and creation at Kent State University every summer since 1968. https://www.kent.edu/kentblossomart

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Week one of Kent Blossom Art Intensives has wrapped! ✨This week, we saw an abundance of creativity and skill from each K...
06/12/2026

Week one of Kent Blossom Art Intensives has wrapped! ✨

This week, we saw an abundance of creativity and skill from each KBAI section as participants worked closely with visiting guest artists and professors. Follow along to see these pieces come to life.

During this Kent Blossom Art Intensives, Kent State ceramics B.F.A. student Sarah Espenschied found the perfect opportun...
06/09/2026

During this Kent Blossom Art Intensives, Kent State ceramics B.F.A. student Sarah Espenschied found the perfect opportunity to explore ceramics designs in preparation for senior thesis.

Expanding on a rendition from last year, Espenschied is working on a wall-hanging ceramics piece of a giant thistle, inspired by abstract nature elements. She found KBAI to be a helpful resource for preparing for her senior thesis project, allowing her the time, space and resources to explore her designs.

Today we welcomed over 70 artists to the 2026 KBAI Cohort! 🎉Follow along over the next two weeks to see these artists de...
06/05/2026

Today we welcomed over 70 artists to the 2026 KBAI Cohort! 🎉

Follow along over the next two weeks to see these artists develop their craft and collaborate with world-renowned artists. Don't miss the KBAI exhibition, featuring works of our guest artists on display until June 26 in the CVA Gallery.

Experience the Kent Blossom Art Intensive guest artist and resident faculty work on display during our annual Kent Bloss...
05/29/2026

Experience the Kent Blossom Art Intensive guest artist and resident faculty work on display during our annual Kent Blossom Art Intensive exhibition. 🖼️

📍Located in the Center for the Visual Arts gallery, this exhibit will be on display from May 27 through June 26.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

The Kent Blossom Art Intensives artist lecture series is fast approaching, a tradition at the School of Art since 1968.☀...
05/22/2026

The Kent Blossom Art Intensives artist lecture series is fast approaching, a tradition at the School of Art since 1968.☀️

Each summer, guest artists come to Kent State from around the world to give artist lectures and assist in workshops during the two-week-long Kent Blossom Art Intensives. Attendees spend this time dedicated to their craft, surrounded by professional guidance.

2026 Schedule:
June 7: Joshua Kosker - Jewelry, Metals and Enameling
June 8: Tyanna Buie - Print, Media and Photography
June 9: Maura Wright - Ceramics
June 11: Elbert Joseph Perez - Painting
June 12: Dylan Ethan Collins - Sculpture and Expanded Media
June 13: Jason Lee Starin - Ceramics
June 14: Ryan Gardner - Jewelry, Metals and Enameling
June 15: Ellie Krakow - Sculpture and Expanded Media
June 16: Trudy Benson - Painting
June 17: Leslie Diuguid - Print, Media and Photography

Lectures will be held in Room 165, Center for the Visual Arts Room at 5 p.m. These events are free and open to the public. Learn more at the link in our bio 🔗

The Kent Blossom Art Intensives artist lecture series is fast approaching, a tradition at the School of Art since 1968. ...
05/22/2026

The Kent Blossom Art Intensives artist lecture series is fast approaching, a tradition at the School of Art since 1968. ☀️

Each summer, guest artists come to Kent State from around the world to give artist lectures and assist in workshops during the two-week-long Kent Blossom Art Intensives. Attendees spend this time dedicated to their craft, surrounded by professional guidance.

2026 Schedule:
June 7: Joshua Kosker - Jewelry, Metals and Enameling
June 8: Tyanna Buie - Print, Media and Photography
June 9: Maura Wright - Ceramics
June 11: Elbert Joseph Perez - Painting
June 12: Dylan Ethan Collins - Sculpture and Expanded Media
June 13: Jason Lee Starin - Ceramics
June 14: Ryan Gardner - Jewelry, Metals and Enameling
June 15: Ellie Krakow - Sculpture and Expanded Media
June 16: Trudy Benson - Painting
June 17: Leslie Diuguid - Print, Media and Photography

Lectures will be held in Room 165, Center for the Visual Arts Room at 5 p.m. These events are free and open to the public. Learn more at https://www.kent.edu/art/kbai-lecture-series

Today is the last day to apply for Kent Blossom Art Intensives! 🚨Secure a spot in one of our intensives and experience a...
05/11/2026

Today is the last day to apply for Kent Blossom Art Intensives! 🚨

Secure a spot in one of our intensives and experience an unforgettable summer workshop. Learn more and sign up at https://www.kent.edu/kentblossomart

05/05/2026

Join us this summer for a full two-week intensive dedicated to your craft.☀️

During Kent Blossom Art Intensives Jewelry, Metals and Enameling program, artists can look forward to expanding their skillsets under the guidance of talented visiting artists Joshua Kosker and Ryan Gardner, where they explore setting unconventional materials and pushing the boundaries of jewelry-making.

Apply by May 11 at https://www.kent.edu/kentblossomart

Get to know our next sculpture and expanded media guest artist, Ellie Krakow! Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artis...
05/01/2026

Get to know our next sculpture and expanded media guest artist, Ellie Krakow!

Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing and photography. Seeking to claim a place for the sick body in the lineage of figurative sculpture, her work combines bodily representation with forms inspired by the architectures of medical intervention.

Krakow's work has been featured in solo exhibitions across the country, with her text-based works being published in Precog, VECTOR, Lookie-Lookie, and Drain Journal and her curatorial projects shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NURTUREart and Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University. She is currently an associate professor of art and director of Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University.

Apply for KBAI at https://www.kent.edu/kentblossomart

Images: 1) Ellie Krakow by Kay Hickman, 2024; 2) My Hospital +1, Aquaresin, wood, fiberglass, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, 19 x 26 x 58 inches, 2024

Introducing our sculpture and expanded media guest artist, Dylan Ethan Collins! ✨Dylan Collins is a mixed media artist w...
04/24/2026

Introducing our sculpture and expanded media guest artist, Dylan Ethan Collins! ✨

Dylan Collins is a mixed media artist whose research focuses on exploring the intersection of traditional and digital artmaking methods to reinterpret common, everyday things. Utilizing processes such as drawing, steel fabrication, blacksmithing, 3D printing, CNC cutting, mold making, metal casting and found object assemblage, he imbues the familiar with fantastical dimensions, unexpected distortions and surreal, dreamlike qualities to emphasize the mutable nature of reality.

Collins is based in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he is associate professor, 3D studio & public art program coordinator and sculpture area head in the West Virginia University School of Art and Design.

Apply for KBAI at https://www.kent.edu/blossom/apply

Images: 1) Dylan Ethan Collins; 2) All once the same mountain (My dreams have running water)
2025, Cast iron, steel, cast bronze, paint, 24" x 11" x 2"

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