Kent State University Museum

🎗️ Exciting announcement, our wonderful exhibition, “LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style,” has been extended by 2 weeks! Plan your visit today to catch it before it moves on to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!

🗓️On view now through July 12th at the Kent State University Museum
📍515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, Ohio
🕒Open Tuesday–Saturday, 11 – 5 Sunday, 12 – 4

✒️Curated by Sara Hume and presented in partnership with the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation in New York City. This exhibition is supported by the Robert H. Reakirt Foundation and a sustainability grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

Thank you to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for selecting us as a 2026 awardee, providing crucial support for for critical HVAC upgrades that will improve energy efficiency and strengthen the long-term preservation of our fashion and textile collections.

In collaboration with Environment & Culture Partners , this initiative is the first grantmaking program of its kind that catalyzes energy efficiency at visual arts organizations.



Read more here: https://www.frankenthalerclimateinitiative.org/

💐 The KSU Museum looks absolutely stunning with our new gardens! Plan your summer visit and enjoy the vibrant flowers today. We can't wait to see you!

🕙 Open Tuesday-Saturday 11-5 & Sunday 12-4
📍 515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, Ohio
🚗 Free parking in designated museum spots in Rockwell Hall lot

📣 We are excited to announce that the Cardinal Quartet, a musical ensemble of Kent State students and graduates, will be performing at the KSU museums’ June 25th opening of “Quilts & Coverlets: Art for the American Home.”

🇺🇲Come celebrate at our opening reception and enjoy refreshments and a special live performance of all-American classics, ranging from Samual Barber’s Adagio for Strings to Sousa’s Stars & Stripes Forever.

✨Limited space available, make sure to RVSP for the opening, June 25th 5–7 p.m. now: https://connect.kent.edu/register/quilts-and-coverlets

🏀As the NBA season comes to an exciting close, it’s important to recognize all the people that make a winning team happen! LeRoy Neiman paid attention to them all: especially the coaches.

🧑‍🎨As the KSU Museum’s “LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style,” exhibition comes to a close, 🚨only open through June 28th, 2026 🚨, it’s time to highlight another piece you can come see today!

🏅LeRoy Neiman is often regarded as the “Father of Sports Art,” with his dynamic compositions capturing every motion in the split second he focuses on. He is well known for basketball pieces focused on the center of action. Here, he takes our attention courtside. He highlights the coach, creating a radiating energy through his crouched form—ready to spring up at any minute. He reminds us to recognize all there is around us, not just what pulls our attention first. Come see it in person today at the KSU Museum!

✒️Curated by Sara Hume and presented in partnership with the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation in New York City. This exhibition is supported by the Robert H. Reakirt Foundation and a sustainability grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

🗓️On view now through June 28 at the Kent State University Museum
📍515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, Ohio
🕒Open Tuesday–Saturday, 11 – 5 Sunday, 12 – 4
📷The Basketball Coach, 2001, Felt pen, 14 ⅛” x 9 ¾”. Courtesy of LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation.

The Kent State University Museum was proud to participate in the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Conference this week in Iowa City.

Our team presented on creative cross-disciplinary partnerships, sharing how collaborations can expand audiences, learning opportunities, and the impact of university museums.

Thank you to our colleagues across the field for the inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and commitment to the future of museums and higher education.

🇫🇷Are you studying French? LeRoy Neiman might be able to help!

🎨We’re back highlighting another piece on view in KSU Museum’s “LeRoy Neiman: A Keen Observer of Style!” 🚨This exhibition is in its last month, only open through June 28th, so plan your trip today! 🚨

🎩Today we are looking at the piece “Diagrammed French Man,” where Neiman sketches in ink a properly dressed French man, complete with labels in French. In the early 1960s, Neiman rented a studio in Paris where he drew inspiration from his environment, studying specifically the Deauville social season which included horseraces, polo, and film festivals filled with marvelously dressed individuals.

📰This piece systematically breaks down “L’habit” or the garment, showing Neiman’s attention to detail that leads him to so brilliantly capture people and scenes later in his career as a “reporter type of painter.”

🗓️ On view now through June 28 at the Kent State University Museum
📍515 Hilltop Drive, Kent, Ohio
🕒Open Tuesday–Saturday, 11 – 5 Sunday, 12 – 4
📷Diagramed French Man, Ink, 10.75” x 8”. Courtesy of LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation.