May 4 Visitors Center

Art from Graphic Content exhibition

Alison Caplan, director of the May 4 Visitors Center, provides an up close look at some of the items in the center's "Graphic Content: The Comics of May 4" exhibition.  She also share stories about the art and the artists that created it.  

Alison Caplan with Jeffrey Miller displays

While Alison Caplan grew up in nearby Akron, Ohio, and has spent time in Kent, when she joined the university as the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center in July, she began to see, and understand, the campus in a whole new light. Caplan is part of a group of Golden Flashes that Kent State Today will be following for the 2023-24 academic year.

Kent State Today is following the new director of the May 4 Visitors Center as part of its "Year with a Flash" series. 

Jeffrey Miller, April 1970

An exhibition at the May 4 Visitors Center will highlight the personalities of each of the four students who were killed on May 4. 

Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of Kent State University's May 4 Visitors Center.

After a national search, Alison Caplan has been selected as the new director of Kent State University’s May 4 Visitors Center, a museum that tells the story of the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, set in the context of the 1960s.

Brazilian educators at Cleveland sign

Educators from Brazil visited Northeast Ohio institutions for inspirations in innovative teaching. 

Douglas Scott McKenzie with Amy Reynolds and Todd Diacon at May 4 Commemoration 2023

The Kent State Community came together for the 53rd Commemoration of May 4, 1970. 

M4VC Gallery One

Since it first opened 10 years ago, the mission of the May 4 Visitors Center has continued to evolve.