The Wick Poetry Center, in 秀色app鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, recently received two grants from the Ohio Arts Council. The grants, totaling $28,368, will help support the Wick reading series, student scholarships, poetry publications, outreach workshops and the Traveling Stanzas project. The $14,410 Ohio Arts Council Sustainability grant, renewable for four years, provides general operating support to arts and cultural organizations across Ohio that make important contributions to the health and vitality of our communities. According to the Ohio Arts Council, 鈥淪u...
The Wick Poetry Center, with support from the Howard Atwood Family Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, identified classrooms throughout Akron Public Schools to receive weekly poetry workshops led by WPC teaching artists Alice Cone, Daniel Dorman, and Bo Geisse, and Casey Nichols from February 2, 2015 through May 18, 2015. Teaching Artists were placed in residencies at the following locations: Lawndale Elementary in grades 3, 4, and 5 classes; Jennings Middle School in English Language Learning classes, grades 6, 7, and 8; Garfield High School in two classes, grade 10; Summit County Juvenil...
Students from Dr. Lydia Rose鈥檚 sociology classes recently filled the Slak Shak with samples of culture, music, food and art from 30 African countries during a recent culture fair held on the East Liverpool campus. There were 34 posters submitted and displayed at the fair. Visitors were able to get 鈥減assports鈥 stamped at each country they visited, making them eligible for door prizes. Winners of the poster competition included Tiffany Durham, most creative, for her poster about Cameroon; Brandon Ferry, most informative, for his poster on Egypt; and Melissa Bleininger, overall best poster, f...