Some 10,000 people attended the 13th annual Brite Winter festival this year, where punk-rock bands played electrifying music until late at night.

“It reminded me how much I love the art of performing and bringing such amazing stories to life,” Kierstan Conway, a recent Cleveland State graduate, said about the festival.

Lawrence James Travagliante -- or Kid Leo, as many Clevelanders know him -- will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during Cleveland State University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony on Sunday. 

“So this is what happens when you ask people to bring two pieces of art,” Kendall Christian, director of The Galleries at CSU since 2019, said. “This is a community. It’s called the people’s art show because it’s people. You can be from France or you can be from Solon, Ohio, eight or eighty, if you show up on the due date your art gets in the show.”

“It would be nice if there was a room with a bunch of art to work in or a space to play music.” What improvements do CSU students want to see made to current break areas offered?

Todd Nelson, Ph. D. is CSU’s foremost expert on Russia. Nelson was a subject matter expert on Russian Affairs for a prominent D.C. think tank, served in the military as a Russian linguist and interrogator, and is the author of a book on the politics of remembering Stalinism.