Stockton University’s annual Arts and Culture Summit will expand to two days this year and will host events on the school’s Galloway and Atlantic City locations.
The third annual summit, sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities, begins at 2:30 p.m. April 9 with the 17th annual Paul Lyons Memorial Lecture in the Stockton Performing Arts Center on the Galloway campus. Jane Golden, the founder and executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia, will be the keynote speaker at the event, which honors the legacy of a former Stockton professor. A reception will follow the lecture from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Art Gallery.
The main part of the summit continues at 9 a.m. Friday in the Fannie Lou Hamer Room in the John F. Scarpa Academic Center at Stockton’s Atlantic City campus. In addition to another speech by Golden, the summit will feature panel discussions and breakout sessions focusing on cultural infrastructure as community anchors, public art as a civic voice and creative practices and public health.
There will also be a roots and culture workshop exploring the musical lineage of hip hop and its roots in earlier Black music traditions. The summit will end with a student hip hop performance showcase.
