David E. Dix
With the “Into the Wind, the Veils,” exhibit closing, Kent State anticipates the September opening of “Textures: the history and art of Black hair,” an ambitious exhibition with significant corporate sponsorship, that has been co-curated by Tameka Ellington, an associate professor of the Kent State University Fashion School, and Interim Assistant Dean for the College of Arts, and, Joseph Underwood, an assistant professor of art history.
I have written about Underwood earlier and have yet to meet Ellington, but am looking forward to the pleasure of making her acquaintance.
Underwood provides a lot of positive energy in Kent State University’s terrific School of Art. He brought the “Into the Wind, the Veils” exhibition to the Crawford and Payto Gallery in the Center for Visual Arts building. It featured the work of a Moroccan-French artist, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, whom Underwood came to know when he was participating in a Biennial Art Festival in Dakar, Sen