Submitted photo / Gareth Gardner Adam Nathaniel Furman will lead a design workshop and speak at Kent State University as part of the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series.

London-based designer and artist Adam Nathaniel Furman will visit Kent State University as part of the Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series.

Furman will lead a design workshop with architecture and fashion students in collaboration with Kent State’s Sue Hershberger Yoder, professor of fashion design, and Kristen Mimms Scavinicky, assistant professor of architecture.

The workshop will culminate in the creation of a large-scale gateway installation, accompanied by an exhibition of works by Furman, Hershberger Yoder and Mimms Scavnicky in the Lawrence R. and Sandra C. Armstrong Gallery at The John Elliot Center for Architecture and Environmental Design, 132 S. Lincoln St., Kent.

The gateway will integrate Furman’s use of bold color, ornament and cultural narrative and serve as a central feature of the Kent State School of Fashion’s 2026 Fashion Week.

Furman will deliver the “Productive Exuberance” lecture at 5:15 p.m. Monday in the Elliot Center’s Cene Lecture Hall, followed by a conversation with Kent State faculty The evening concludes with the exhibition opening and reception outside the Armstrong Gallery.

Furman’s work has been shown at the Design Museum in London, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Internationally, he has exhibited during Milan Design Week and at major design biennials and festivals.

All events are free and open to the public, and no registration is required. The exhibition will remain on public display until June 26.

The Schroth series was established by Cecile Draime and her late husband, Max, of Howland to honor their friend, Niles architect Thomas Schroth (1922-1997).

The series is presented jointly by Kent State’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design and the College of the Arts.

For full event details and ticket information, go to kent.edu/artscollege/thomas-schroth-visiting-artist-series.